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Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House by Peter Brears 9781909248793
RRP: $78.00$59.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248793Author Peter BrearsFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: $50.60$40.25The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April... -
The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes by Jeremy Black
RRP: $37.03$26.54Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy.Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy... -
Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Man Who Lived to Tell about It by Brian Murphy
RRP: $42.90$31.80The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered... -
The Delamere Saga: The Untold Story of Vale Royal Abbey by Geoffrey Hebdon
RRP: $44.85$39.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922332110Author Geoffrey HebdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Digital Publishing CentrePublisher Interactive PublicationsWeight(grams) 494g -
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Graham Leyburn 9780807842591
RRP: $48.65$32.00Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... -
The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture by Tamara S. Wagner 9780198858010
RRP: $169.65$153.87The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture, this... -
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth - Century Britain, Ireland,and America by Richard B. Sher
RRP: $74.10$73.50In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. "The Enlightenment and the Book" seeks to remedy the common misperception that such... -
Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder 9781906727208
$30.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906727208Author Mark HodderFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Snowbooks LtdPublisher Snowbooks LtdWeight(grams) 410g -
Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War by Powell
$218.54This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain's raw cotton trade and on the Liverpool cotton market. It includes an analysis of primary sources never used by historians. Before the civil war, America supplied... -
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England by Christopher Hilliard 9780691226101
RRP: $42.90$33.85A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by... -
Marketable Values: Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
RRP: $60.45$58.87The idea that land should be--or even could be--treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political... -
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders 9780393327632
RRP: $56.53$46.08Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the... -
Labour and the Poor Volume X: Liverpool by Charles Mackay 9781913515102
RRP: $44.83$44.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515102Author Charles MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant
RRP: $33.13$28.49As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this... -
Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England by Bridget O'Donnell
RRP: $19.48$14.18In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All... -
Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 by Carl J. Griffin
$66.75Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities... -
Christmas in Nineteenth-Century England by Neil Armstrong 9781526149930
RRP: $29.23$26.23Whether for reasons of family, food, shopping or religion, it's hard to imagine a British winter without Christmas, or to think of a more traditional national festival. But how and when did Christmas cards, pantomimes and advertising become part of that... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes 9781421425702
RRP: $58.40$39.57A fascinating account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from best-selling historian and critic Kathryn Hughes.In Victorians Undone, renowned British historian Kathryn Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century as they... -
Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c.1830-1870 by Sarah Holland
RRP: $37.03$33.11This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring how and why rural communities developed in what was chiefly an industrial region and, notably, how the... -
A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire by Dr Sarah Heaton
$58.81"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair." Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show... -
Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents by Peter Vinten-Johansen 9781554813940
RRP: $54.50$46.33This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What had happened? Local authorities were flummoxed about the mode by which the disease had spread. What has... -
Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question by R. W. Seton-Watson 9780393005943
RRP: $56.55$46.31Professor Seton-Watson examines the public agitation in England over the Turkish massacres known as "the Bulgarian atrocities" and shows how diplomacy and party politics interacted, altering Britain's traditional policy toward the Turkish Empire. He... -
Scotland and the Indian Empire: Politics, Scholarship and the Military in Making British India by Alan Tritton
RRP: $78.00$59.24This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret,... -
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay 9780393312249
RRP: $60.45$57.19Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations... -
The Social Cost of Cheap Food: Labour and the Political Economy of Food Distribution in Britain, 1830-1914 by Sebastien Rioux 9780773559004
RRP: $62.40$55.34The distribution of food played a considerable yet largely unrecognized role in the economic history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In the midst of rapid urbanization and industrialization, retail competition intensified and the channels by which... -
Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law by Catherine L. Evans
RRP: $107.25$102.39A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across... -
Imperial Engineers: The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill by Richard Hornsey 9781487506865
RRP: $115.05$100.25Established in 1871 on the outskirts of London, the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill was arguably the first engineering school in Britain. For thirty-five years the college helped staff the government institutions of British India... -
Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Craig Beveridge 9781474491471
RRP: $48.73$39.57The making of the historian who transformed Scottish history and the nation's understanding of its pastShortlisted for Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2022 Presents a revision of the predominant historiographic interpretation of... -
The Remarkable Lushington Family: Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group by David Taylor
RRP: $202.80$177.98Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, this study spans three generations of the Lushington family. It investigates their personal histories through the themes of social, artistic, and cultural history. The author analyzes the Lushington... -
Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England by Rosalind Crone 9780198833833
RRP: $229.13$206.91The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schemes to teach prisoners to read and write, and sometimes more besides, can be traced to the early 1800s... -
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Agnes Arnold-Forster 9780198866145
RRP: $185.25$167.78The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in... -
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson 9781848879560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.75$5.46'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have... -
Spectacles and the Victorians: Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity by Gemma Almond-Brown 9781526161352
RRP: $165.75$145.29This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect... -
Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure by Stephen Watts 9781544531922
RRP: $37.03$28.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544531922Author Stephen WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Houndstooth PressPublisher Houndstooth PressWeight(grams) 875g -
A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind by Edward Beasley 9781606189009
RRP: $161.85$140.61A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about... -
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation by Jonathan Connolly 9780226833620
RRP: $179.40$171.33A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture’s normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the normalization of indenture from its controversial beginnings to... -
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780393325430
RRP: $65.33$60.06The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented... -
The Duchess of Landsfeld by Dov Silverman 9781944322243
RRP: $58.48$34.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944322243Author Dov SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Writers of the ApocalypsePublisher Writers of the ApocalypseWeight(grams) 476g -
Queen Victoria: A Captivating Guide to the Queen of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland along with Her Impact on the Victorian Era by Captivating History 9781637164167
RRP: $44.83$30.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637164167Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 308g