Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886

Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity, cruelty prevention and "social purity" advocates promoted their causes through mobilization of citizen volunteer support. M.J.D. Roberts explores the world of these volunteer networks—their concerns, patterns of recruitment, methods of operation, and responses aroused—to provide an accessible period survey of moral reform.