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  • London's West End

    Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914

    by Rohan McWilliam ...
    How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England

    by Rohan McWilliam ...
    Series series Historical Connections
    Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical interest and has undergone fundamental revision in the last two decades. Did the industrial revolution create the working class movement or was ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Victorian Studies Reader

    Edited by Kelly Boyd, Rohan McWilliam ...
    Series series Routledge Readers in History
    Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on:periodizationpoliticsconsumerismintellectual lifesexualityempireThe Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource,... ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Labour and the left in the 1980s

    Edited by Jonathan Davis, Rohan McWilliam ...
    This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about political leadership, economic alternatives, gay rights, the miners’ strike, the Militant Tendency and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • New Directions in Social and Cultural History

    Edited by Sasha Handley, Prof. Lucy Noakes, Professor Rohan McWilliam ...
    Series series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Edward Lloyd and His World

    Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

    Edited by Sarah Louise Lill, Rohan McWilliam ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • SWEENEY TODD The String of Pearls

    The Original Victorian Classic

    by James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Gothic/Horror
    In the early years of the Victorian age, a newly literate class of readers turned to "penny dreadfuls" for escapist fun. Blood-curdling tales, published in installments and costing only a penny, offered gripping episodes of romance, mystery, and horror. The notorious penny dreadful Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls recounts a young woman's desperate search for her missing sailor sweetheart―a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Path to Power

    by Margaret Thatcher ...
    In her international bestseller, The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher provided an acclaimed account of her years as Prime Minister. This second volume reflects on the early years of her life and how they influenced her political career. ... Read more

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  • Ruth

    by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ...
    Ruth - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth is a novel by an English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853. The plot - Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the overworked Mrs Mason. She is selected to go to a ball to repair torn dresses. At the ball she meets the aristocratic Henry Bellingham, a rake figure who is instantly attracted to her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The String of Pearls: A Romance - The Original Sweeney Todd

    by Thomas Preskett Prest ...
    Beware the blood-soaked razor of Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street!Johanna Oakley's lover, Mark, has gone missing in suspicious circumstances. And the man who was meant to deliver Mark's last gift to her, a string of pearls, has gone missing too - last seen entering the barber-shop of Sweeney Todd.In desperation, Johanna decides to dress up as a boy in order to gain access to Todd's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Poverty and Compassion

    The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. ... Read more

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