• Covers the history of British electioneering from the eighteenth century right up to the present
• Highlights the continuities in the relationship between British politicians and their public over this period and also the important changes that have taken place, especially in the television age
• Looks at what the current state of electioneering in Britain implies for the future and asks how the media can shape that future

Readership: Those interested in the history of British politics and the history of British elections in the 19th and 20th centuries

Jon Lawrence, Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Emmanuel College

"a book rich in insight...wearing its learning lightly because Lawrence writes so well... This is an important and timely book." - John Ramsden, History Today

"[an] expert study of hustings from the 18th century to the present day...provocative" - Sarah Richardson, BBC History Magazine

"In Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair, Jon Lawrence has written a stimulating account of this aspect of political life." - Keith Simpson MP Summer Reading List, 2009'

Introduction: The Spirit of the Hustings
1: John Bull at the Hustings: Electoral Politics from the Ancien Regime to the Second Reform Act
2: The Fall of the Hustings and the Rise of the Platform
3: Money, Men, and Mayhem: Electoral Politics before the First World War
4: War, Women, and the 'Silent Majority'
5: Towards the New Jerusalem
6: The Decline of the Platform
7: The Local Campaign in the Television Age
8: Broadcasting Politics
9: The Public Banished?
Bibliography
Index