This pamphlet emerged from a thesis I wrote in the late 1970s about the Warwick Borough Parliamentary election of 1868. The theme was why a Parliamentary candidate of radical views chose to stand for election in Warwick rather than – for him - more promising constituencies. It remains one of the few publications in the series that focused on a town other than Coventry and includes an early section of what life was like in early 19^th Century Warwick. My memories of researching over 40 years ago include looking at the original – and large – copies of the Warwick Advertiser in the Warwick County Record Office, they were not on microfilm then let alone digitised. Having said that I note the editor Trevor John recorded in his Editorial Note that, with the printing of this pamphlet, the series had ‘moved into the Computer age’ having been ‘set on a word processor of the University of Warwick’. A new era dawned.