by Gordon Campbell
This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit
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by Simon Patrick Dell
This book details the demise of the old policing systems and the development of Sir Robert Peel’s ‘New Police’, or ‘Peelers'.
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by Mike Brown & Carol Harris
A thematic look at a typical British household during World War II. The book describes what everyday life was like during this period of tremendous social upheaval and ever-present danger from bombing.
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by Juliet Gardiner
A fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers, magazines, memoirs, letters and diaries.
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by Adam Hochschild
In this brilliant work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them.
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by Stephen Wade
Explores the changing nature and uses of prisons throughout the centuries, from the medieval period to the early twentieth century - looking at various different types of prisoner, from prisoners of war to suffragettes.
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by Jeremy Musson
From unpublished memoirs to letters, wages, newspaper articles Jeremy Musson pieces together the daily lives of domestic servants from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century.
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by Trevor May
This book looks at the development of prison buildings, life and labour of prisoners, and the position of prison officers in the nineteenth century.
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by Sarah Rutherford
Dreaded and reviled by many, these nineteenth-century buildings provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill.
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by Sarah Rutherford
This beautifully illustrated study of the Victorian cemetery tells the fascinating story of this historical and architectural phenomenon.
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