 | The Animal Estate: English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo
Buy used from: £10.00 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 new: £41.05 / Used from: £9.75 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: £6.04 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
Buy used from: £12.75 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: £13.29 / Used from: £9.00 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: £6.99 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: £6.49 / Used from: £6.73 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: £9.51 / Used from: £11.99 More a cultural history, but 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: £14.80 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: £12.34 / Used from: £10.40 OK, strictly 'early modern', but a very good read and justly influential
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