The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England*I am grateful to John Belchem, Emma Griffin, Frank O’Gorman and Paul Pickering for helpful comments on earlier drafts, and to the participants of the York eighteenth-century studies seminar, the Manchester University history seminar and the ‘British History in the Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, for critical discussions. The research for this article was assisted by a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, held at the University of Manchester, in 2000–1.

By Poole Robert  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 109-153

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Goodbye to Waldensianism?*Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King’s College, London, and the Medieval Research Seminar, University of Sheffield. I am grateful to the audiences for their comments, to John Arnold, Gabriel Audisio, Euan Cameron, Anne Hudson, Martyn Lawrence, Grado Merlo, Georg Modestin and Lucy Sackville for their comments and responses to queries, and to John Bossy above all for his help.

By Biller Peter  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 3-33

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The Problem of Early Modern Melancholy*I would like to thank Peter Burke, Ingrid Schröder, Richard Serjeantson, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, and seminar audiences in Cambridge and London, for their exceptionally helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.

By Gowland Angus  

Past and Present, Vol. 191, Iss. 1, 2006-05 ,pp. : 77-120

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Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain 1845–1870*This article was first presented as a paper at the ‘British History, 1815–1945’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in 2003. I am grateful for comments received on that occasion, and I also wish to thank Hugh Cunningham, Emily Payne and Charlotte Sleigh for their remarks on subsequent drafts. Many of the cartoons consulted for this article were located with the aid of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent. My research was funded by an Economic History Society Postdoctoral Fellowship held at the Institute of Historical Research, 2002–3.

By Taylor James  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 111-145

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The Transformation of British Public Politics After the First World War*I would like to thank Laura Beers, David Dutton, Susan Pedersen, Andrew Thompson, Philip Williamson and the participants at seminars in Berkeley, Harvard and Manchester for their helpful comments and advice on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the British Academy through their Research Leave Scheme, the Economic and Social Research Council (Research Grant ESRC RES-000-22-0345), and the University of Liverpool through their Research Development Fund.

By Lawrence Jon  

Past and Present, Vol. 190, Iss. 1, 2006-02 ,pp. : 185-216

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