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NOTE: Some books cover more than one topic. This list is intended to be neither definitive nor exhaustive. At some point (!) I intend to give full bibliographical references.
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A Aspinall & E A Smith |
English Historical Documents 1783-1832 |
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M Bentley |
Politics Without Democracy |
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A Briggs |
The Age of Improvement |
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R Brown & C Daniels |
19th Century Britain |
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G Kitson Clark |
The making of Victorian England |
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G D H Cole & R Postgate |
The Common People |
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H J Dyos & M Wolff |
The Victorian City |
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GBA Finlayson |
England in the 1830s |
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E Halévy |
A History of the English People in the 19th Century |
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J F C Harrison |
The Early Victorians 1832-1851 |
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E J Hobsbawm |
Labouring Men |
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P Mathias |
The First Industrial Nation |
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H Perkin |
The Origins of Modern English Society |
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M I Thomis |
Responses to Industrialisation 1780-1850 |
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D Thompson |
19th Century Britain |
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E P Thompson |
The Making of the English Working Class |
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J T Ward |
Popular Movements 1830-1850 |
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G M Young & W D Hancock |
English Historical Documents 1833-1874 |
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Rural Unrest |
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JP Dunbabin |
Rural discontent in nineteenth-century Britain |
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E Hobsbawm & G Rudé |
Captain Swing |
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J Stevenson |
Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1870 |
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D Read |
The English Provinces |
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D Williams |
The Rebecca Riots: a study in agrarian discontent |
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1832 Reform Act |
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W R Brock |
The Great Reform Act |
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C Flick |
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D G Wright |
Democracy and Reform 1815-1885 |
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Trade Unions |
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J L Hammond |
The Town Labourer 1766-1832 |
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J F C Harrison |
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America |
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E H Hunt |
British Labour History 1815-1914 |
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J Marlow |
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D E Martin & D Rubenstein |
Ideology and the Labour Movement |
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A E Musson |
British Trade Unions 1800-1914 |
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H Pelling |
A History of the British Trade Unionism |
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S & B Webb |
The history of trade unionism |
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Poor Law |
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JJ & AJ Bagley, eds. |
The English Poor Law |
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A Brundage |
The Making of the New Poor Law: the politics of inquiry, enactment and implementation 1832-9 (London, Hutchinson, 1978) |
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The landed interest and the New Poor Law |
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SG & EAO Checkland, eds. |
The Poor Law Report of 1834 (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974) |
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A Digby |
Pauper palaces |
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P Dunkley |
The hungry forties and the New Poor Law |
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NC Edsall |
The anti-Poor Law movement, 1834-44 |
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D Fraser |
The Evolution of the Welfare State |
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JP Huzel |
Malthus, the Poor Law and population in early 19th century |
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J Lindsay |
Excellent order throughout: Derby workhouse, 1834-44 |
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J D Marshall |
The Old Poor Law 1795-1834 (London, Macmillan, 1968) |
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E Midwinter |
Victorian Social Reform (Seminar Studies in History, Longman, London, 1968) |
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M E Rose |
The Relief of Poverty after 1834 |
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Factory Movement |
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G F A Best |
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D Bythell, |
The handloom weavers |
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W Cook Taylor |
Notes of a Tour Through the Manufacturing Parts |
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W H Challoner |
The Skilled Artisan 1750-1850 |
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W Dodd |
The factory system |
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C Driver |
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The curse of the factory system |
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J L Hammond |
The Skilled Labourer 1760-1832 |
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B L Hutchins & E A Harrison |
History of Factory Legislation |
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J T Ward |
The Factory Movement 1830-1855 |
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Chartism |
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Passages in the Life of a Radical (Cass, 1967) |
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A Briggs |
Chartist Studies |
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G D H Cole |
Six Chartist Portraits |
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T Cooper |
The life of Thomas Cooper |
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J Epstein & D Thompson |
The Chartist Experience |
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R G Gammage |
A History of the Chartist Movement |
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P Hollis |
Pressure from Without |
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The Chartist Movement |
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DJV Jones |
Chartism and the Chartists |
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EC Jones |
Ernest Jones, Chartist |
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W Lovett & Collins J |
Chartism: A New Organisation for the People (1840 - new edition introduced by Asa Briggs, Leicester University Press, 1970) |
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F C Mather |
Public Order in the Age of the Chartists |
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D Read & E Glagow |
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman
and Chartist |
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E Royle |
Chartism |
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A R Schoyen |
The Chartist Challenge |
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M I Thomis & P Holt |
Threats of Revolution in Britain 1789-1848 |
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D Thompson |
The Early Chartists |
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J T Ward |
Chartism |
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D Williams |
John Frost: a Study in Chartism |
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Anti-Corn-Law League and the Corn Laws |
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D G Barnes |
A History of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 |
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L Brown |
The Chartists and the Anti-Corn Law League |
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KJ Cameron |
William Weir and the origins of the Manchester League |
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G Kitson Clark |
The country gentlemen and repeal |
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T L Crosby |
English Farmers and the Politics of Protection |
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C R Fay |
The Corn Laws and Social England |
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Peel |
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N McCord |
The Anti-Corn-Law League |
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A Prentice |
A History of the Anti-Corn-Law League |
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D Read |
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FML Thompson |
English landed society in the nineteenth century |
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C Woodham-Smith |
The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849 |
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Railways |
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PS Bagwell |
The railway interest: its organisation and influence |
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T Coleman |
The Railway Navvies | ||
T R Gourvish |
Railways and the British Economy 1830-1914 |
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JR Kellett |
The impact of railways on Victorian cities |
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Public Health |
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A Briggs |
Victorian cities |
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MC Buer |
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution |
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E Chadwick |
1842 Sanitary Report |
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F Engels |
Condition of the Working Class in England |
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S E Finer |
Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick |
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R A Lewis |
Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement |
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Education | |||
R D Altick |
The English Common Reader | ||
J F C Harrison |
Learning and Living 1790-1960 | ||
D Read |
Press and People | ||
B Simon |
The Two Nations and the Educational Structure | ||
Peel and the Conservative Party | |||
P Adelman |
Peel and the Conservative Party, 1830-1850 |
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R Blake |
The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher |
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G Kitson Clarke |
Peel and the Conservative Party |
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B Kemp |
The general election of 1841 |
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N Gash, Norman |
Politics in the age of Peel |
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R Stewart |
Party and politics, 1830-1852 |
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Crime and the Police | |||
D Ascoli: |
The Queen's peace |
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T A Critchley |
History of police in England and Wales |
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JM Hart |
The British police |
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JJ Tobias |
Crime and industrial society in the 19th century |
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Religion |
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A Armstrong |
The Church of England, the Methodists and society |
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K S Inglis |
The Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England |
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Standard of Living Debate | |||
W H Challoner |
The Hungry '40s | ||
G Kitson Clarke |
The Making of Victorian Britain | ||
J L Hammond |
The Bleak Age | ||
R M Hartwell |
The Industrial Revolution in England | ||
E J Hobsbawm |
Industry and Empire | ||
AJ Taylor |
The Standard of Living in Britain | ||
Other Reading (not in catagories) | |||
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G A Cranfield |
The Press and Society | ||
M W Flinn |
British Population Growth | ||
D Read |
The English Provinces | ||
D Roberts |
Paternalism in Early Victorian England | ||
Contemporary Writing | |||
Selected Essays | |||
Charles Dickens |
Hard Times (and any others) | ||
Coningsby | |||
Friedrich Engels |
Condition of the Working Class in England | ||
Elizabeth Gaskell |
North and South | ||
Charles Kingsley |
Alton Locke | ||
Biographies | |||
Ashley, Lord |
Diary and letters | ||
A Aspinall |
Lord Brougham and the Whig Party | ||
A Briggs |
Victorian people | ||
CH Driver |
Tory radical: the life of Richard Oastler | ||
GBA Finlayson |
7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885 | ||
JFC Harrison |
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain | ||
E Hodder |
The life and work of the Earl of Shaftesbury | ||
CS Parker |
The life and letters of Sir James Graham | ||
JM Prest |
Politics in the age of Cobden | ||
D Read & E Glagow |
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist | ||
K Robbins |
John Bright | ||
F Smith |
The life and work of Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth | ||
JT Ward |
Sir James Graham |
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