Sweetly Terminal
Edward Pearce, 5 August 1993
‘What’s all this?’
Edward Pearce
Edward Pearce is the author of Denis Healey and Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act.
Spurning at the High: a poet of Chartism
Edward Pearce, 6 November 2003
Will became an ardent public man, working well in those times when reforms were begun with a young hopefulness of immediate good which has been much checked in our days, and getting at last returned to Parliament by a constituency who paid his expenses.
Middlemarch
The ‘hopefulness’ being ‘much checked in our days’ speaks the caution of 1867 as against the enthusiasm...
Pieces about Edward Pearce in the LRB
Shoy-Hoys: The not-so-great Reform Act
Paul Foot, 6 May 2004
No one disputes that the British electoral system before 1832 was a mockery of representation. Members of Parliament did not want or pretend to be representative: the word ‘democracy’...
Labour’s Beachmaster: Jenkins, Healey, Crosland
Peter Clarke, 23 January 2003
The sudden death of Roy Jenkins took us all by surprise. He was over eighty, of course, and with a heart problem that had required major surgery. This latterly gave him a good excuse to sit down...
Up the avenue
Peter Clarke, 11 June 1992
Don’t be put off by the title, since it’s only a laboured allusion to Cobbett’s Rural Rides, lacking the alliterative euphony of the original. What Edward Pearce of the Guardian...
What difference did she make?
Eric Hobsbawm, 23 May 1991
The ‘question of leadership’ which is the subject of both these books is the question of how much difference leadership in politics can make. Contrary to what is held by believers in...
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