Part 1 Introduction - contexts and agendas: media and messages - republicanism's traditions and preoccupations; Victorian republicanism - research avenues and sideways glances. Part 2 Definitions and audiences: republics versus empires - Charles Dilke's republicanism reconsidered; republicanism - movement or moment?; "the nauseating cult of the crown" - republicanism, anti-monarchism and post-Chartist politices, 1870-1875. Part 3 Destinies and choice: republicanism, socialism and democracy - the origins of the radical Left; "some interesting survivals of the historic past"? - republicanism, monarchism and the militant Edwardian Left; Charles Bradlaugh, India and the many chameleon destinies of republicanism; "these colonies are practically republics" - republicanism in the British colonies of settlement in the long 19th century.
