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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: monarchy, contractualism and history
  • The Crown and the secular magic of petition
  • Monarchy and the policing of insanity
  • The madness of Margaret Nicholson
  • Treason compassed: popular mobilisation and physicality in the 1790s
  • Lunacy and politics at fin de siècle, 1800-3
  • The potatoes speak for themselves: regicide, radicalism and George IV, 1811-30
  • Collins in context: William IV, affability and the reform crisis, 1830-37
  • Monarchy goes private: Peel's Protection Act and the retreat from approachability, 1837-50.