History of England from the Year 1830-1874, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

In this first of a three-volume work that focuses on Englands history during the authors lifetime, Molesworth provides an interesting account of the Great Reform Struggle of 1831 and 1832, which introduced far-reaching changes to the electoral system. He begins his history here because the event was the authors earliest memory of an important occurrence in English historythe reforms effected major constitutional changes without violence or upheaval. The volume closes in the late 1830s, with the death of William IV (1837).