This new book is concerned with Professor Sutherland's principal area of interest - the Victorian...

Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But ...

For thousands of years horses played a central part in the lives of people in many parts of the w...

This is the first volume of five of the personal memoirs of a most remarkable man: Alfred John Ro...

This is the second volume of five of the personal memoirs of a most remarkable man: Alfred John R...

New illustrated edition with an introduction by Christophe Campos. This remains the classic and s...

This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible eve...

Including more than 100 illustrations and detailed coloured map. This acclaimed book opens the hi...

Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his ...

The contribution of women to the construction of modern society has been largely forgotten in Iri...

The essays on language have been inspired by the work of sociolinguists on the ways in which the ...

By the standards of any age, Frances (Fanny) Trollope was an extraordinary woman who led an extra...