LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page 1: William IV by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1835, aged 70. (© Royal Academy of Arts, London; John Hammond)

Page 2, top: Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, c.1831, by Sir William Beechey. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 2, bottom: Mary Countess Grey with two of her daughters. (Private collection)

Page 3: Charles 2nd Earl Grey, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. (Private collection)

Page 4, top: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by John Simpson, c.1835. (Apsley House, The Wellington Museum, London / © English Heritage Photo Library / The Bridgeman Art Library)

Page 4, bottom: Sir Robert Peel by Henry William Pickersgill. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 5, top: Old Sarum by John Constable (1776–1837). (Private collection / The Stapleton Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library)

Page 5, bottom: High street market, Birmingham. Engraving by William Radclyffe, 1827, from a drawing by David Cox. (SSPL / Getty Images)

Page 6, top: Thomas Attwood. Engraving by C. Turner, 1832, after portrait by George Sharples. (Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library)

Page 6, middle: ‘The Preston Shoe Black in Parliament Showering a few of his Brilliant Ideas out at the Expence of Some of the Rotten Members’. (By permission of the People’s History Museum)

Page 6, bottom: Captain Swing, c. December 1830. ‘An original portrait of Captain Swing’, published by Orlando Hodgson, 1830. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Page 7, top: Lord John Russell and Lord Holland. Portrait by George Hayter (attributed to). (The Congregational Memorial Hall Trust (1978) Limited. Image supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation)

Page 7, bottom: Lord and Lady Holland in the Library at Holland House. ‘Holland House Library’ by C. R. Leslie. (Private collection)

Page 8, top: William Cobbett. Etching by Daniel Maclise, 1835. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 8, bottom: Thomas Babington Macaulay. Drawing by I.N. Rhodes, 1832. (Private collection)

Page 9, top: ‘An After Dinner Scene (At Windsor)’ by John Doyle. Lithograph published by Thomas McLean, 12 October 1831. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 9, bottom: ‘Handwriting Upon the Wall’ after John Doyle. Published 26 May 1831. (Shelf mark: Reform Bills 2 54. The Art Archive / Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Page 10, top: ‘House of Commons’ by James Stephanoff, 1821. (© Palace of Westminster Collection, WOA 276)

Page 10, bottom: ‘The Reformers’ Attack on the Old Rotten Tree; or the Foul Nests of the Cormorants in Danger.’ Cartoon published by E. King, May 1831. (By permission of the People’s History Museum)

Page 11, top: The City of Bristol on Fire, 30 October 1831, from a sketch taken from Brandon Hill by C.H. Walters (Bristol Record Office: BRO 43207/20/3/1)

Page 11, bottom: ‘Bombarding the Barricades or the Storming of Apsley House’. Hand-coloured etching published by J. Bell, February 1832. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Page 12, top: ‘Dame Partington and the Ocean (of Reform) by John Doyle. Lithograph published by Thomas Mclean, 24 October 1831. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Page 12, bottom: ‘New Reform Coach’ by John Doyle. Lithograph published by Thomas McLean, 17 June 1832. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 13, top: ‘The Dog Billy Led Astray by a German B----’. Woodcut published by G. Drake, 1832.

Page 13, bottom: Shoemakers’ banner. (By permission of the People’s History Museum)

Page 14, top: John Gilpin!!! by John Doyle. Lithograph published by Thomas McLean, 13 May 1831. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

Page 14, bottom: Scorton 1832–Celebrating the First Reform Act. Artist unknown. (Kiplin Hall)

Page 15: The banquet given in the Guildhall, 7 July 1832, to celebrate the passing of the Bill. Painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon. (Private collection)

Page 16: ‘A memento of the Great Public Question of Reform’. Designed and engraved for the Bell’s New Weekly Messenger, 15 April 1832. (By permission of the People’s History Museum)