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  • Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England

    Cambridge, 1835–1856

    by Roger Swift ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and process of police reform, the changing relationship between the police and the public, and their ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical

    by Roger Swift ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers.An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • William Gladstone

    New Studies and Perspectives

    by Roland Quinault ...
    William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was the outstanding statesman of the Victorian age. He was an MP for over sixty years, a long serving and exceptional Chancellor of the Exchequer and four times Prime Minister. As the leader of the Liberal party over three decades, he personified the values and policies of later Victorian Liberalism. Gladstone, however, was always more than just a politician. He ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Irish in the Victorian City

    Edited by Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    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 critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions.This book will be of interested to students of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

    Edited by Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley ...
    Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed.In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and analyses the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    The Leopard in Autumn

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

    by Neal Anthony, Roger Danes, Sue Limb ...
    Narrated by David Swift, Sian Phillips, Graham Crowden, Paul Bigley, Saskia Wickham, Nick Romero, Christopher Kelham, Kim Wall, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Comedy about the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-stateIn Monte Guano, a ridiculously small and penniless principality in Renaissance Italy, Prince Ludovico II finds his rule constantly undermined by those around him: his shrewd wife, his official mistress, and his three disappointing - if not outright humiliating - sons.As well as having to manage the ever-increasing ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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    The Great Irish Classics

    15 Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

    by Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Maria Edgeworth, Dion Boucicault, George Moore, Somerville & Ross, Jonathan Swift ...
    Narrated by Judi Dench, Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston, Miriam Margoyles, David Suchet, Stephen Rea, Celia Imrie, Roger May, Martin Clunes, Joanne Froggatt ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 38 min

    A comprehensive collection of classic works from some of Ireland’s finest authors, adapted as full-cast BBC radio dramasIreland has a long tradition of storytelling, from ancient myths and mediaeval folk tales to 21st century bestsellers, Nobel Prize laureates and Booker Prize winners. Though small in size, the country has produced an extraordinary array of influential, groundbreaking writers who ... Read more

    $21.48 USD

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  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    by Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Read more

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  • A Radical History Of Britain

    Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

    by Edward Vallance ...
    From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000

    by John Gibney ...
    A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century.Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. Beginning with Ireland's modern period at the dawn of the sixteenth century, John Gibney continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island ... Read more

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  • A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?

    England 1783-1846

    by Boyd Hilton ...
    Series series New Oxford History of England
    This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the 'first industrial revolution'. In the ... Read more

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