 | Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (Yale Nota Bene) by L Colley
Buy used from: £8.25 Traces the creation of a British national identity. Also good as an introduction to the 18th century.
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 | The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History) by E. P. Thompson
Buy new: £15.97 / Used from: £14.18 The industrial and french revolutions up to the chartists. A classic.
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 | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 (New Oxford History of England) by Boyd Hilton
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £23.50 Boyd Hilton is difficult, but his analysis is unparalleled. Brings ideas back into the politics of the period.
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 | The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain by J Parry
Buy new: £18.70 / Used from: £14.00 Does for the Liberals what Boyd Hilton did for the Tories. Ideas are important!
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 | Hope and Glory: Updated to Cover 1992-2002: Britain, 1900-2000 (Penguin History of Britain) by Peter Clarke
Buy new: £7.58 / Used from: £5.98 A positive spin on the 20th century. Standard political narrative, it's the chapters on social and cultural developments that are of particular interest.
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