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Malcolm Chase, 'Chartism: a new history', (Manchester University Press, 2006)

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Professor Robert Blackburn, 'The electoral system in Britain', (Macmillan,1995)

Stephen Roberts (ed), 'The People's Charter. Democratic Agitation in Early Victorian Britain', ( Merlin Press, 2003)

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Edmund Tetteh, 'Election statistics 1918-2007', (House of Commons Research Paper, RP 08/12)

Kevin Williams and Isobel White, 'Reduction in voting age', (House of Commons Library Standard Note, SN/PC/01747)

Isobel White, 'Weekend voting', (House of Commons Library Standard Note, SN/PC/04469)

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