In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the

In this, the second edition of A Social History of England , Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the

This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's

A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.

In the momentous period -- barely 30 years -- covered by this systematic reference/guide, the Edwardian world was transformed unrecognisably, through war, techn