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Railway Crimes Committed in Victorian Britain by Malcolm Clegg
RRP: £20.00£14.29The vast majority of Britain's railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating... -
The Thames Torso Murders by M J Trow
RRP: £14.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013451Author M J TrowPage Count 224Imprint WharncliffePublisher WharncliffeWeight(grams) 156g -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: £40.00£38.55Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Albert Moore, took... -
A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851: The Making of the Nation William Gibson 9781845297152
RRP: £8.99£6.20Praise for the author:'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson
RRP: £22.50£19.35An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Chartism by Richard Brown 9780521586177
£10.72This book considers the ways in which working people in the nineteenth century sought justice through the Chartist movement. Richard Brown poses fundamental questions about the movement and considers them through the interpretations of both contemporary... -
The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 by V. A. C. Gatrell 9780192853325
RRP: £93.00£75.89Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers... -
These Houses are Ours: Co-operative and community-led housing alternatives 1870-1919 by Andrew Bibby
RRP: £18.95£16.95The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour. From Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales,... -
Visitor's Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs 9781781592830
RRP: £14.99£10.95A colourful introduction to the realities of life in the 19th century. Readers will learn hidden details of history, from how to fend off pickpockets to the correct way to fasten a corset. This title will appeal to both seasoned social history fans,... -
Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed by Cobb, Richard Charles 9781526748720
RRP: £19.99£14.28Jack the Ripper is the ultimate cold case. The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous... -
England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70 Jeremy Black 9781398101692
RRP: £20.00£14.29Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to show how his work not only expressed his experience of Victorian England, but also defined it, for his... -
Victorian Miniature by Owen Chadwick 9780521422512
RRP: £19.99£17.13Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the... -
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton 9780300001228
£31.81"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period... -
The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III by Sir Lewis Namier 9780333067161
RRP: £69.99£65.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333067161Author Sir Lewis NamierFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 680g -
Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965 by Andy Croll 9781786835864
RRP: £19.99£15.23Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex,... -
Crow Court by Andy Charman
RRP: £16.99£11.76LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022 Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a... -
English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime by J. C. D. Clark 9780521666275
RRP: £44.99£38.54This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which questioned much of the received picture of English... -
Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors by Martyn R Beardsley
RRP: £16.99£11.27Whenever vessels have foundered off the coasts of Britain, there have always been those willing to give their all to save those in peril. But in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. He believed that... -
Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 by Heather Streets 9780719069635
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a... -
Short History Of The Victorian Era, A Pocket Essential by Gordon Kerr
RRP: £9.99£2.91It began with the horse-drawn carriage and ended with the aeroplane... An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British Empire - the largest ever seen - dominate the world. British ingenuity in the... -
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854-2007 by Ian Friel
RRP: £25.00£17.62Following _Britain and the Ocean Road_, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With _Breaking Seas, Broken Ships_, we follow the story of Britain's maritime history through some of it's most... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by Joanne Parker 9780198883340
£41.10In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries... -
Labour and the Poor Volume VIII: Wales, The Mining and Manufacturing Districts by Special Correspondent 9781913515188
RRP: £16.99£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515188Author Special CorrespondentFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Revolution, Radicalism and Reform: England 1780-1846 by Richard Brown 9780521567886
RRP: £19.95£16.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 by William J. Fishman 9780907123453
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123453Author William J. FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Milner: Last of the Empire Builders by Richard Steyn
RRP: £25.00£16.99'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial... -
Maritime Enterprise and Empire - Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893 by J.Forbes Munro 9780851159355
RRP: £125.00£90.28This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in... -
Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Merlin Holland 9781786782304
RRP: £9.99£6.80Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but... -
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830 T. S. Ashton 9780192892898
RRP: £35.99£33.44The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 Tom Young 9781913107390
RRP: £40.00£33.59Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Britain's Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects by John Broom
RRP: £25.00£17.62The period of Britain's Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation's history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain's rapidly expanding... -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Extension of the Franchise: 1832-1931 Bob Whitfield 9780435327170
£29.13A study of the period 1832 to 1931 and the extension of the franchise. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The two AS sections deal with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes,... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury 9781541768024
RRP: £18.99£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768024Author Deborah CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: £16.99£12.28'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies... -
The Industrial Revolution by Pat Hudson 9780713165319
£30.33This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: £15.99£15.94An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog by Michael Worboys
RRP: £20.00£14.53We know that there were dogs in Victorian Britain, but who were the 'Doggy People' who kept them, bred them, showed them, worked with them and cared for them?Chapter by chapter, this book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens 9781509868216
RRP: £9.99£7.27Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' - Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell set sail for Rome,... -
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £14.99£9.70Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to...