Re-reading the Constitution

List of figures; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Notes towards an introduction James Vernon; 2. 'Our real constitution': trial defence and radical memory in the age of revolution James Epstein; 3. The English people and their constitution after Waterloo: parliamentary reform, 1815–17 Jonathan Fulcher; 4. Public opinion, violence and the limits of constitutional politics Dror Wahrman; 5. Making room at the public bar: coroners' inquests, medical knowledge and the politics of the constitution in early nineteenth-century England Ian Burney; 6. Republicanism reappraised: anti-monarchism and the English radical tradition, 1850–72 Antony Taylor; 7. The constitution and the narrative structure of Victorian politics Patrick Joyce; 8. Narrating the constitution: the discourse of 'the real' and the fantasies of nineteenth-century constitutional history James Vernon; 9. Gender, class and the constitution: franchise reform in England, 1832–1928 Anna Clark; Index.