Edwin Jaggard

Edwin K. G. Jaggard (born 1942) was an honorary professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts in the Edith Cowan University, Western Australia,^[1] who specialised in the study of local history and in the politics of Cornwall, UK in the 19th century.^[2]

He was awarded a Ph.D. by the Washington University in St. Louis, in 1980, for a dissertation “Patrons, Principles and Parties: Cornwall Politics 1760–1910.”

Publications

This is an incomplete list.

• Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790-1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9.

This work is described by the RHS as: "This detailed case-study offers a penetrating analysis of the changing political culture in Cornwall up to and after the introduction of the 1832 electoral system. It spans a century in which the country’s parliamentary over-representation and notorious political corruption was replaced by a politicised electorate for whom issues and principles were usually paramount. Several modes of electoral behaviour are tested; in particular, the continuous political activism of Cornwall’s farmers stands out. Despite remnants of the unreformed electoral system lingering into the mid-Victorian era, Cornwall developed a powerful Liberal tradition, built upon distinctive patterns of non-conformity; the Conservatives, split by dissension, saw their pre-reform ascendancy disappear."

• “Managers and Agents: Conservative Party Organisation in the 1850s” in Parliamentary History 27 (1), 7–18 (2008)

For further titles, search The catalogue of the library of ECU.

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