1. M. Taylor The Decline of British Radicalism (Oxford, 1995), p. 71.
2. I. Prothero, Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London: John Gast and his Times (Hassocks, 1979).
3. E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working-Class (London, 1968).
4. D. Southgate, The Passing of the Whigs, 1832–1886 (London, 1962), p. 97.
5. P. Mandler, Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform, Whigs and Liberals 1830–1852 (Oxford, 1990) emphasizes connections between Whiggery and popular support.