Titlebook: Political Rhetoric in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, 1830–1870; Taru Haapala Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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Taru HaapalaBrings together an almost complete collection, transcription and analysis of the Cambridge and Oxford Unions’ nineteenth-century records.Offers the first in-depth analysis into these institutions of r

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Book 2016al culture. Despite this role, or perhaps for that very reason,the Unions have received very little scholarly attention as to their politicalactivities. This study will focus particularly on debating practices throughwhich their members became knowledgeable of the parliamentary way of doing politics

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Introduction: The Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate,scusses approaches previously used to make sense of parliamentary discourse and debate. The chapter also illustrates the adoption of parliamentary procedure in the Unions and highlights them as an important historical source for understanding political activity in British parliamentary culture.

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Procedure and Debate in the British Parliamentary Culture, drawing attention to the publicity of parliamentary proceedings and professionalisation of political journalism, Haapala uses rhetorical treatises and manuals to show the common attitudes towards parliamentary debate before and after the institutionalisation of parliamentary government in Britain.

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Book 2016.More significantly, it uses the original Union records as primary researchmaterial to show that they also had unique political practices of their own.Presenting a detailed analysis of their debates, the book argues that theUnions should be appreciated as independent political arenas, not mereextensions of Westminster politics..