CONTENTS:

1. Introduction
2. Britain under the Tories 1815-30
3. Foreign affairs 1815-30
4. Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832
5. Whig reforms and failures 1833-41
6. Chartism
7. Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46
8. Domestic Affairs 1846-67, Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867
9. Lord Palmerston and foreign affairs 1830-65
10. The Crimean War (1854-56)
11. Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857
12. Social reform: factories, mines, education
13. Gladstone’s First Ministry 1868-74
14. Disraeli and the Conservatives in power 1874-80
15. Victorian prosperity and depression
16. Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95
17. Ten years of Conservative rule 1895-1905
18. The Dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand before 1914
19. The growth of the trade unions and the Labour Party to 1914
20. The Liberals in power 1905-14
21. Britain, the First World War and its aftermath
22. Politics in confusion 1918-24
23. Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike (1924-29)
24. The second Labour government (1929-31), the world economic crisis and its aftermath
25. Britain and the problems of Empire between the wars
26. Appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War: foreign affairs 1931-39
27. Britain and the Second World War 1939-45
28. Labour in power: the Atlee governments 1945-51
29. "Never had it so good": Conservative rule 1951-64
30. Britain and her place in the World after 1945
31. Britain since 1964