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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2015
The history of Parliament: the House of Commons, 1820–1832. Edited by D. R. Fisher. 7 vols, pp cli, 6336. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. £490.
1 Matthew, H.C.G., Leslie Stephen and the ‘New dictionary of national biography’ (Cambridge, 1997), pp 11–12Google Scholar.
2 The present reviewer must here admit that, as one of the general editors, he played a (very minor) part in this enterprise – the palms, however, belong quite elsewhere.
3 It might be noted that each of the four biographical volumes is prefaced by a colour plate: of Canning, Hunt, Peel and Althorp (later Spencer).
4 Though England, without direct legislation, experienced signifcant increases in voter numbers in this period.