 | The Animal Estate: English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo
Buy used from: £11.74 Illuminates the British C19 class system from a novel angle, great fun too!
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 | Death, Dissection and the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain by Ruth Richardson
Buy used from: £22.45 A grand view of social structures in early C19 extrapolated convincingly from a single perspective
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 | Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War (Penguin history) by Denis Winter
Buy used from: £10.99 Fascinating detail of daily life on the western front builds into a very well structured study. A surprisingly neglected work
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| Whigs and Hunters: Origin of the Black Act (Peregrine Books) by E.P. Thompson
Fondly remembered, this was an eye-opening Marxist encounter for a young undergraduate!
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 | Britain Can Take It by Tony Aldgate
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £12.00 An excellent compliment to many other (far more dull) works on the period
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| Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism by Thomas Boyle
Buy used from: £4.89 Ripping tales of murder and mayhem are the subject matter for what should be a rather more engaging study
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 | The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by A Owen
Buy new: £11.13 / Used from: £9.19 Excellent study of an often forgotten social phenomenon of great significance (Ruth Brandon's The Spiritualists fills out the wider context too)
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 | Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto) by Jay Winter
Buy new: £12.14 / Used from: £6.00 Outstanding cultural history with lots of interesting detail on the way communities interracted with the memorialisation process
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| The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment by Roy Palmer
Buy used from: £6.00 Terrific synthesis of ballad traditions by theme. Fascinating, illuminating ... and you can sing along!
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 | Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Penguin History) by Keith Thomas
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £9.00 OK, strictly 'early modern', but a very good read and justly influential
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