Author: William PagePublisher:
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Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Victoria History of the Counties of England
Author: William PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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A Guide to the Victoria History of the Counties of England (Classic Reprint)
Author: Herbert Arthur DoubledayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331032663
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Excerpt from A Guide to the Victoria History of the Counties of England About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Victoria History of England
Author: Arthur Bailey ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Dominion
Author: Peter AckroydPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 150988131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901. In it, Ackroyd takes us from the accession of the profligate George IV whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, who was firmly set against reform, to the reign of his brother, William IV, the 'Sailor King', whose reign saw the modernization of the political system and the abolition of slavery. But it was the accession of Queen Victoria, aged only eighteen, that sparked an era of enormous innovation. Technological progress – from steam railways to the first telegram – swept the nation and the finest inventions were showcased at the first Great Exhibition in 1851. The emergence of the middle classes changed the shape of society and scientific advances changed the old pieties of the Church of England, and spread secular ideas across the nation. But though intense industrialization brought boom times for the factory owners, the working classes were still subjected to poor housing, long working hours and dire poverty. It was a time that saw a flowering of great literature, too. As the Georgian era gave way to that of Victoria, readers could delight not only in the work of Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth but also the great nineteenth-century novelists: the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Thackeray, and, of course, Dickens, whose work has become synonymous with Victorian England. Nor was Victorian expansionism confined to Britain alone. By the end of Victoria’s reign, the Queen was also an Empress and the British Empire dominated much of the globe. And, as Ackroyd shows in this richly populated, vividly told account, Britannia really did seem to rule the waves.
A Guide to the Victoria History of the Counties of England
Author: Herbert Arthur DoubledayPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Victoria History of the Counties of England
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The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk
Author: William PagePublisher:
ISBN: 9789389247084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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The Victoria History of the Counties of England
Author: William PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
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The Victoria History of England
Author: A. B. ThompsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Victoria History of the Counties of England
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