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  • First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent po... First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent position in English society. Their church generated continual and often rancorous debate and they played an important part in the local provision of education welfare and... more
  • First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent po... First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent position in English society. Their church generated continual and often rancorous debate and they played an important part in the local provision of education welfare and... more
  • First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian w... First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian women took up various positions along a continuum that ranged from the desire of Shelley s creature for the power and acceptance it associated with the house to the... more
  • In 1849 the Morning Chronicle a leading Victorian newspaper embarked on a soci... In 1849 the Morning Chronicle a leading Victorian newspaper embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in the immediate context of concern over Chartism and the cholera epidemic its intention was to provide a... more
  • First published in 1965 this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period prov... First published in 1965 this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period providing accounts of the development in the constitutional organisation of the city and the political standing and the studies of the university. Employing a wide range of... more
  • First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in compar... First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society... more
  • The evils of drink were a constant preoccupation in late Victorian England. Th... The evils of drink were a constant preoccupation in late Victorian England. The United Kingdom Alliance founded in 1853 fought a long and vigorous but ultimately unsuccessful campaign for prohibition. In doing so it eventually developed into one of... more
  • First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day Victorian burlesques ... First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day Victorian burlesques are now little read scarcely studied and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition this critical edition - the first to... more
  • First published in 1978 this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selectio... First published in 1978 this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms. Subjects treated in the nine essays include the... more
  • First published in 1985. Beginning from the first documented British divorce i... First published in 1985. Beginning from the first documented British divorce in 1670 Professor Horstman traces the development of divorce the different means by which it came about and the relation of practice to moral attitudes. Many cases are... more
  • First published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science... First published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science not yet defined in Victorian times - ecology - and was practically the first naturalist to conduct research on plant evolution beginning in 1834. The correspondence... more
  • First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians... First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work David Roberts... more
  • First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in... First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire and the family life and education of the poet writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel... more
  • First published in 1985 this book explores the social history of the Irish in ... First published in 1985 this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities including Bristol York Glasgow Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field it provides a thorough... more
  • First published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain Walter L. ... First published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain Walter L. Arnstein has over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This... more
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