Mark Philp is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College. He has published widely on the history of ideas, late 18th and early 19th century European history, and on political realism and ethics in public life. He is the author of Political Conduct (2007) and Reforming Political Ideas in Britain (2013).
Introduction
1. Politics and privacy
2. Disagreement and deliberation
3. Plurality: women's circles in London
4. Radical literary women
5. Gender and deliberative equality
6. Negotiating equality
7. A private affair
8. Music and movement
Conclusion. Life during wartime.