Introduction

1                    Immediate Consequences of the Union (January 1801)

2                    Addington and Pitt (1801-1806)

3                    The Ministry of all the Talents (1806-1807)

4          The Portland Ministry (1807-1809)

5          Perceval and the Prince Regent (1809-1812)

6          Lord Liverpool I (1812-1820)

7          Lord Liverpool II (1812-1820)

8          Canning to Wellington (1827-1829)

9          Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation (1820-1829)

10        After Emancipation (1829-1830)

11        The Whigs and the Reform Bill (1830-1832)

12        The First Reformed Parliament (1832-1834)

13        Peel's First Ministry (1834-1835)

14        Melbourne's Second Ministry I (1835-1841)

15        Melbourne's Second Ministry II (1835-1841)

16        Peel's Second Ministry I (1841-1843)

17        Peel's Second Ministry II (1843-1846)

18        The Famine I (1845-1846)

19        The Famine II (1846-1848)

20        Lord John Russell (1846-1850)          

21        Postscript

            Biographical Notes

            Bibliography and Sources

            Index