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  • The Strange Death of Liberal England

    1910-1914

    by George Dangerfield ...
    This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Asquith

    by Roy Jenkins ...
    First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years of these he presided with an easy authority over the most talented government of this century. The ... Read more

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  • The Classic Slum

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    A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison. ... Read more

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  • Disraeli

    by Robert Blake ...
    First published in 1966, Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political biographies of the last hundred years.An outsider, a nationalist, a European, a Romantic and a Tory - Disraeli's story is an extraordinary one. Born in 1804, the grandson of an immigrant Italian Jew, he became leader of the Conservative Party and was twice Prime Minister. Famous for the 1867 Reform Act, ... Read more

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  • Gladstone

    A Biography

    by Roy Jenkins ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

    by Dr Ian Maxwell ...
    To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's history from 1800-1914. It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on ... Read more

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  • The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

    by S. M. Hussey, Home Gordon, Editor ...
    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents and IndexCONTENTSPREFACEI. ANCESTRYII. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARSIII. EDUCATIONIV. FARMINGV. LAND AGENT IN CORKVI. FAMINE AND FEVERVII. FENIANISMVIII. MYSELF, SOME FACTS, AND MANY STORIESIX. THE HARENC ESTATEX. KERRY ELECTIONSXI. DRINKXII. PRIESTSXIII. CONSTABULARY AND DISPENSARY DOCTORSXIV. IRISH CHAR... ... Read more

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  • Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain In 1846

    by Stephen Bates ...
    Britain in 1846 was a nation in the grip of dramatic change.As the Industrial Revolution reached its height, people were flooding from countryside to city; the railways were spreading; starvation and destitution existed alongside immense wealth and power, generating profound social tensions.And seismic change was afoot in the world of politics. Parliament's repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws ... Read more

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  • Lord Randolph Churchill Volume 2

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 2 - Lord Randolph Churchill
    The second volume of the Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister's biography of his father, the controversial Victorian era British MP.In 1906, Sir Winston Churchill produced a two-volume biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill, the 19th century Member of Parliament whose political career ended in scandal. This second volume detail's the elder Churchill's emergence as an independent leader who ... Read more

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  • Lord Randolph Churchill Volume 1

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Lord Randolph Churchill
    The first volume of the Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister's biography of his father, the fiery Conservative Party leader of late Victorian Britain.In 1906, Sir Winston Churchill produced a two-volume biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill, the 19th century Member of Parliament whose political career ended in scandal. This first volume deals with early events in Randolph's life, including ... Read more

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  • Mr Secretary Peel

    The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830

    by Norman Gash ...
    Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, beginning with Mr Secretary Peel.As Gash puts it memorably, 'Peel, born in 1788 in the world of ... Read more

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