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  • Being Single in Georgian England

    Families, Households, and the Unmarried

    by Prof Amy Harris ...
    Being Single in Georgian England is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members. Using a micro-historical approach, Amy Harris covers three generations of the famous musical and abolitionist Sharp family. The abundance of records the Sharps produced and preserved reveals ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

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  • A History of Britain in 21 Women

    A Personal Selection

    by Jenni Murray ...
    The bestselling history of Britain, told through twenty-one women whose lives enthral and beguile, intrigue and inspire‘Celebrates the defiant spirit of Britain’s groundbreaking heroines… Entertaining.’ Daily MailBritain has traditionally been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. It’s high time that it was defined by its women. In this unique history, Jenni Murray ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

    The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    by Jane Robinson ...
    It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era

    The Eighteenth-Century Struggle for Female Success in a Man's World

    by Mike Rendell ...
    Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that inequality the legal barriers, the lack of education, the prejudices and misconceptions held by men and also examines the reluctance of women to compete on an equal footing. Why did so many women accept that a womans place was in the ... Read more

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  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies

    Property & madness in eighteenth-century London

    by Leo Hollis ...
    ‘Brilliant’ Financial Times‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities’ Dan SnowThe reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonJune 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed. Within hours they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • George III (Penguin Monarchs)

    Madness and Majesty

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both of which have been portrayed on stage and screen.In this concise and penetrating biography, Jeremy Black turns away from the image-making and back ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The 'perpetual fair'

    Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

    by Anne Wohlcke ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Uncontrollable Women

    Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries

    by Nan Sloane ...
    "Compelling." The Guardian"An insightful and inspiring history." BBC History Magazine"A tantalising revelatory book." The House"Brisk and illuminating." Times Literary Supplement"A damn good read." Morning Star"Wonderful." The ChartistUncontrollable Women is a history of radi... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • A House in Gross Disorder

    Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven

    by Cynthia B. Herrup ...
    Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl. In A House in Gross Disorder, Cynthia Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation of the case of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and of the sexual ... Read more

    $30.59 USD