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Short Booklist for JW3 Day School: Georgian Age

Books on Riots, Bawdiness, & Polite Society The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain Ian Mortimer Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's...

Crimean War: Short Booklist

The Crimean War Orlando Figes The Crimean War Hugh Small The Crimean War Paul Kerr The Crimean War John Sweetman The...

Victorian Age: War with Russia 1853-56

THE CRIMEAN WAR 'The war', said Frederick Engels,' was a colossal comedy of errors'. And so it was, but it nevertheless cost over 600...

The Victorian Age: The 'New' Woman

The eighteenth century saw the rise of a new professional and entrepreneurial middle class. Included amongst which were many women who...

Victorian Age - Empire: A Short Booklist

Empire Denis Judd Empire Jeremy Paxman The Decline and Fall of The British Empire Piers Brendon Colonialism Nigel...

The Victorian Age: Imperial Glory or Imperial Shame?

No single word, save perhaps for 'Slavery', creates such a storm in British historical circles, and across the wider community, than the...

INDUSTRY & SLUMS: The Victorian Age Part 3

This third in talks about the Victorian Age, delves into an underside of Victorian Life. The underside of the urban factory working...

A General List of New History Books

1848 Christopher Clark A new look at this seminal year in European history by the excellent Christopher Clark The Windsors at...

A Short Victorian Booklist: Part 2

Robert Peel Douglas Hurd Sir Robert Peel Norman Gash Parliament Vol 2 Chris Bryant The Conservative Party Robert...

Victorian Britain: Part Two

Robert Peel Why in a short course devote a whole session to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel? If his name is remembered today by the...

First Booklists for The Victorian Age

A Short General Booklist Short History of The Victorian Era G.Kerr High Minds S.Heffer The Victorians J.Paxman...

QUEEN VICTORIA (1837-1901)

This is an introduction to my first lecture on Victorian Britain for Lockdown on 5th June. Queen Victoria You can't escape Victoria...

VICTORIAN BRITAIN: An Introduction

For my new Lockdown course beginning on Monday 5th June Victorian Britain 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times', wrote...

German History: The Final Chapter 1990 onwards

REUNIFICATION & BEYOND When re-unification came, it came quickly. The East German Communist regime crumbled as the whole of Eastern...

German Booklist: East Germany

Beyond the Wall Katja Hoyer East Germany Charles Rivers Editors East Germany Hourly History Growing up in East...

East Germany: 1949-90

It seems, with the benefit of hindsight, very strange to western eyes that in the Eastern half of Germany at the end of The Second World...

West Germany 1949-1990

In the immediate aftermath of The Nazi Third Reich, Germany was divided up between the four victorious Allies (USSR, USA, UK, and France)....

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