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In preindustrial Britain, Parliament was mainly concerned with foreign affairs and keeping the domestic peace, and its work did not affect the majority of Englishmen. More important to the common people was the role of local government, where landowners ruled and tenants obeyed. Both in town and countryside, authority was in the hands of local elites, whether the squire, vicar, or urban guilds.
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Countess of Anacaster, ‘Ladies and the Primrose League’, Lady’s Realm, vol. VI, May 1899, pp. 87–88.
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Shiman, L.L. (1992). Class and Politics. In: Women and Leadership in Nineteenth-Century England. Studies in Gender History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22188-2_4
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