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Nature of the opposition to railwaysEarly advocates in favour of railways . COMPETITION OF RAILWAYS AND CANALSDescription of the various carrying systems on railways Railways working to exclude private carriers from their lines Pros and cons of the carrying question .... Means used to drive the carriers off the railway lines Canals had to lower rates under railway competition . Decreased revenues of canals shown in decreased prices of shares Working agreements formed between railways and canals after competition had reduced their revenues and profits ......

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LIKE Jacobitism and Chartism, the study of the influence of the French Revolution on British politics and public opinion has attracted a good deal of sentimental interest, but it is a curious fact that with the exception of Professor Alfred Cobban's anthology (The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789–1800 (1950)), A. H. Lincoln's Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent, 1763–1800 (1938), and a few scattered articles comparatively little appears to have been published since 1926 on the subject. It has therefore never been examined in the light of those trends in historiography associated with the names of Unwin and Namier.