The Vote keyword-cricket Accessible to the general reader

Accessible to the general reader

originally published in New Left Review and collected here in book form for the first time

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The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century

The Vote keyword-cricket Accessible to the general readerThe culmination of a lifetimes work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. Foot takes readers from the smoke filled church of the Putney Debates to the incendiary arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the fight for womens suffrage.