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Britain's Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects by John Broom
RRP: $48.75$34.36The 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... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: $78.00$65.50Illuminates 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... -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $33.13$23.95'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... -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Extension of the Franchise: 1832-1931 by Bob Whitfield
$56.80A 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,... -
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James Graham Leyburn 9780807842591
RRP: $48.65$33.38Dispelling 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... -
Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowden
RRP: $25.33$18.27Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens 9781509868216
RRP: $19.48$13.77Winner 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: $29.23$18.92Christopher 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... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant 9780393609196
RRP: $46.78$39.99During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot... -
The Country House Kitchen 1650-1900 by Pamela A. Sambrook 9780752455969
RRP: $39.00$29.46The kitchen was very much the heart of the home in country houses the length and breadth of Britain. Although this hive of activity was kept behind closed doors and often hidden away in the bowels of vast mansions, these rooms ensured that the house and... -
The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer by Williams, Joanna M 9781399014809
RRP: $48.75$34.36Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868/. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged, though... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens
RRP: $29.23$26.23Winner 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, after two years of writing The Life of... -
England in the Age of Dickens: 1812-70 by Jeremy Black
RRP: $39.00$27.87Beginning 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... -
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... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $50.68$47.11"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Ruger 9780199672462
RRP: $53.61$39.35On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. ... -
Jack the Ripper's New Testament: Occultism and Bible Mania in 1888 by Nigel Graddon 9781948803137
RRP: $42.90$37.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803137Author Nigel GraddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World by Luke Keogh 9780226823973
$53.02The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive... -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson
RRP: $13.63$9.75Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the... -
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... -
Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain by John Potvin 9781784991098
RRP: $48.75$43.27The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: $48.75$42.49This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: $50.60$39.43The 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... -
Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $21.43$14.14From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and... -
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: $29.23$19.11Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents... -
Cholera: The Victorian Plague by Amanda J Thomas 9781526781819
RRP: $29.23$21.35Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses first-hand accounts, blending... -
Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870–1960 by Jeremy Burchardt 9781009199872
$59.94Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by... -
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth - Century Britain, Ireland,and America by Richard B. Sher
$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... -
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb
RRP: $27.28$16.95"A tour de force of storytelling." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series"Jobb's excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." -The New York Times Book Review "When a doctor does go wrong,... -
London Monster by Jan Bondeson 9780752433271
RRP: $25.33$18.27The London monsterAbout the AuthorJan Bondeson is a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the University of Wales College of Medicine. His many critically acclaimed books include Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear and... -
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England by Christopher Hilliard
RRP: $58.50$44.50A 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... -
Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain by Paul Brighton 9781780760599
$98.01Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightly-organised media launches - the well-known world of modern political spin. But is this really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press... -
Saving the People's Forest: Open spaces, enclosure and popular protest in mid-Victorian London by Mark Gorman 9781912260416
RRP: $33.13$29.19The growth of nineteenth-century London was unprecedented, swallowing up once remote villages, commons and open fields around the metropolitan fringe in largely uncontrolled housing development. In the mid-Victorian period widespread opposition to this... -
Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire by Trevor Royle 9781408704011
RRP: $48.75$28.59The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between... -
Victorian Fashions for Women by Storey, Neil R
RRP: $39.00$27.87_Victorian Fashions_ _for Women_ explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the first years of the 20th century. Within are a superb overview of the dresses, hats, hair styles, corsetry,... -
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young 9781496839466
$55.50In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales... -
English Hours: A Portrait of a Country by Henry James 9781848854857
RRP: $21.43$15.89'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' ... -
The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard
RRP: $60.35$46.66Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge... -
The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis by James Douet
$76.15Steam pumping stations are exceptional buildings, a rousing, eloquent architecture designed by engineers, and an industrial edifice intended to express civic pride. They were invented, perfected and superseded in barely a century during the determined... -
Mudlarking: A Historical Sourcebook by Heritage Hunter 9781905315338
$11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905315338Author Heritage HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Heritage HunterPublisher Heritage HunterWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...