Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform

a wide-ranging and provocative book, attractive to read, its argument powerfully and elegantly stated ... Mandler politely raps the knuckles of a number of historians ... The book certainly deserves to be widely read. It will lead to considerable discussion.'H C G Matthew, Times Literary Supplementan interesting and original insight on the development of British politics in the 19th century’Times Higher Education Supplement’The Peel ‘special subject’ at Oxford has inspired many excellent monographs, among which Peter Mandler’s book stands with the very best. This rich, original and entertaining study not only brilliantly reintegrates high and low politics but provokes an entire rethinking of the Age of Reform.‘A.C. Howe, London School of Economics, History, February 1992’The Peel ‘special subject’ at Oxford has inspired many excellent monographs, among which Peter Mandler’s book stands with the very best. Based on an exhaustive range of private and public archives, and thoroughly grounded in the contemporary and historical literature, this work substantially reinterprets our understanding of the Whig party in the supposed ‘Age of Peel’.‘History, No.249, February 1992’Dr Mandler’s is an interesting hypothesis. Dr Mandler has re-emphasised the role of parliament and politics in this period, and led us firmly away from those who saw the reforms of the time, other than parliamentary reform itself, as some sort of inevitable process of social change. For that, and for the many other good things this thoroughly researched book contains, it is to be recommended.‘A.J. Heeson, University of Durham, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol. 13, No. 1, June 1993’Imaginative and based pon considerable research.‘Abraham D. Kriegel, Memphis State University, Journal of British Studies, July 1993’Mandler has used an impressive range of manuscript sources and his examination of Whig correspondence contains much that is new, interesting and valuable;‘Norman Gash. Longport, Somerset. EHR Shorter Notices April ‘94

Educated at Oxford and Harvard universities, Peter Mandler has taught British history on both sides of the Atlantic and since 2001 at Cambridge University, where he is Reader in Modern British History and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His most recent book is a history of the idea of the
English national character, ‘from Burke to Blair’. He is currently working on the intellectual history of ‘national identity’ and its precursors and is co-director of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on Victorian attitudes to past, present and future, ‘Abandoning the Past’, run by the Cambridge

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