Full reading lists
This list is not extensive. Please also use voyager and the Bibliography of British and Irish History (use the vpn off campus) for more titles.
Particularly useful books and articles are marked with *
If a book is unavailable in the LRC, it is often scanned in part in www.google.co.uk/books
Particularly useful books and articles are marked with *
If a book is unavailable in the LRC, it is often scanned in part in www.google.co.uk/books
Textbooks [use for general information and background facts]:
* The online 'textbook' for this module is Edward Royle, Modern Britain, a Social History, 1750-2011 (3rd ed. 2011, available as an e-book via Voyager/studynet)
Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Susie L. Steinbach (Routledge, 2012) is also useful - I'm waiting for copies for the LRC.
Evans, E.J., The Forging of the Modern State, Early Industrial Britain 1783 –1870 (2001)
Robbins, K, The Eclipse of a Great Power 1870 – 1975 (1983)
Matthew, C. A., The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles, 1815-1901 (2000)
Rubenstein, W.D., Britain’s Century: a political and social history, 1815-1905 (1998)
Pugh, M., State and Society: a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997 (1999)
Bentley, M., Politics without Democracy, 1815-1914: perception and preoccupation in British government (1984)
The golden age: essays in British social and economic history, 1850-70; edited by Ian Inkster with Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
Reviews of books on Victorian Britain, as well as useful online resources and primary sources can be found on the IHR website: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/
* The online 'textbook' for this module is Edward Royle, Modern Britain, a Social History, 1750-2011 (3rd ed. 2011, available as an e-book via Voyager/studynet)
Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Susie L. Steinbach (Routledge, 2012) is also useful - I'm waiting for copies for the LRC.
Evans, E.J., The Forging of the Modern State, Early Industrial Britain 1783 –1870 (2001)
Robbins, K, The Eclipse of a Great Power 1870 – 1975 (1983)
Matthew, C. A., The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles, 1815-1901 (2000)
Rubenstein, W.D., Britain’s Century: a political and social history, 1815-1905 (1998)
Pugh, M., State and Society: a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997 (1999)
Bentley, M., Politics without Democracy, 1815-1914: perception and preoccupation in British government (1984)
The golden age: essays in British social and economic history, 1850-70; edited by Ian Inkster with Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
Reviews of books on Victorian Britain, as well as useful online resources and primary sources can be found on the IHR website: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/
Britain during the French Revolution:
Jennifer Mori, Britain in the age of the French Revolution, 1785-1820 (Harlow, 2000)
Colley, L., Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992)
Dickinson, H. T. (ed.), Britain and the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Basingstoke, 1989)
* Dickinson, H. T., British radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Oxford, 1985)
Vernon, James (ed.), Re-reading the constitution : new narratives in the political history of England's long nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
* Turner, Michael J. The age of unease: government and reform in Britain, 1782-1832 (Stroud, 2000)
O'Gorman, Frank, 'The Paine Burnings of 1792-1793,’ Past & Present, 193 (2006), 111-56.
* Philp, M., 'Vulgar Conservatism, 1792-3,’ English Historical Review, 110 (1995), 42-69.
Philp, M., (ed.), The French Revolution and British Popular Politics. Cambridge (1991)
Philp, M. (ed.), Resisting Napoleon: the British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815 (Aldershot, 2006)
Royle, Edward, Revolutionary Britannia?: Reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (Manchester, 2000)
* Taylor, M., ‘British Politics in the Age of Revolution and Reform, 1789-1867’ [review essay], Historical Journal, 45: 3 (2002), 661-677
Thomis, Malcolm I. and Holt, Peter, Threats of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (London, 1977)
Whatmore, Richard, 'Treason and despotism: The impact of the French revolution upon Britain' [Review essay],’ History of European Ideas, 34:4 (2008), 583-86
Governance and representation
Ashton, O., et al, The Chartist Legacy (2000)
Burns, R. Arthur; Innes, Joanna (ed.), Rethinking the age of reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Cambridge, 2003)
Cromwell, Valerie, ‘The Losing of the Initiative by the House of Commons, 1780-1914’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol. 18 (1968), 1-23
Eastwood, D., Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700-1870 (1997)
Fraser, P., ‘Party Voting in the House of Commons, 1812-1827’, English Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 389 (Oct., 1983), 763-784
* Hawkins, A., ‘Parliamentary government and Victorian political parties, c.1830-1880,’ English Historical Review, 104: 412 (July 1989)
LoPatin-Lummis, Nancy, 'Ritual, symbolism, and radical rhetoric: political unions and political identity in the age of parliamentary reform,’ Journal of Victorian Culture, 3 (1998), 1-29
Mandler, Peter. Aristocratic government in the age of reform: Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852 (Oxford, 1990)
Murray, B. K. ‘The politics of the 'People's Budget',’ Historical Journal, 16:3 (1973), 555-70
Newbould, I, ‘Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative Party, 1832-1841: A Study in Failure?’, English Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 388 (Jul., 1983), 529-557
Pentland, Gordon, 'The Debate on Scottish Parliamentary Reform, 1830-1832', Scottish Historical Review, 85:1 (2006), 100-30.
Pugh, M., State and Society: a social and political history of Britain 1870-1997 (1999), chapter 2.
Quinault, R., ‘1848 and parliamentary reform,’ Historical Journal, 31: 4 (1998)
* Saunders, Robert, ‘The politics of reform and the making of the second reform act, 1848-1867,’ Historical Journal, 50:3 (2007), 571-91
Saunders, Robert, ‘Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67,’ English Historical Review, 120:489 (2005), 1289-1315.
Salmon, Philip J., '"Reform Should Begin at Home": English Municipal and Parliamentary Reform, 1818-32', Parliamentary History, 24: Suppl (2005), 93-113.
Taylor, M., ‘Rethinking the Chartists: Searching for Synthesis in the Historiography of Chartism,’ Historical Journal, 39:2 (June 1996)
* Vernon, James (ed.), Re-reading the constitution: new narratives in the political history of England's long nineteenth century (Cambridge, 1996)
* Vernon, James, Politics and the people: study in English political culture, c.1815-1867 (Cambridge, 1993)
Wasson, Ellis Archer, 'The crisis of aristocracy: parliamentary reform, the peerage and the House of Commons, 1750-1914', Parliamentary History, 13 (1994), 297-311
Wasson, Ellis Archer, 'The great Whigs and parliamentary reform, 1809-30', Journal of British Studies, 24 (1985), 434-64.
Jennifer Mori, Britain in the age of the French Revolution, 1785-1820 (Harlow, 2000)
Colley, L., Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992)
Dickinson, H. T. (ed.), Britain and the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Basingstoke, 1989)
* Dickinson, H. T., British radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Oxford, 1985)
Vernon, James (ed.), Re-reading the constitution : new narratives in the political history of England's long nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
* Turner, Michael J. The age of unease: government and reform in Britain, 1782-1832 (Stroud, 2000)
O'Gorman, Frank, 'The Paine Burnings of 1792-1793,’ Past & Present, 193 (2006), 111-56.
* Philp, M., 'Vulgar Conservatism, 1792-3,’ English Historical Review, 110 (1995), 42-69.
Philp, M., (ed.), The French Revolution and British Popular Politics. Cambridge (1991)
Philp, M. (ed.), Resisting Napoleon: the British response to the threat of invasion, 1797-1815 (Aldershot, 2006)
Royle, Edward, Revolutionary Britannia?: Reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (Manchester, 2000)
* Taylor, M., ‘British Politics in the Age of Revolution and Reform, 1789-1867’ [review essay], Historical Journal, 45: 3 (2002), 661-677
Thomis, Malcolm I. and Holt, Peter, Threats of revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 (London, 1977)
Whatmore, Richard, 'Treason and despotism: The impact of the French revolution upon Britain' [Review essay],’ History of European Ideas, 34:4 (2008), 583-86
Governance and representation
Ashton, O., et al, The Chartist Legacy (2000)
Burns, R. Arthur; Innes, Joanna (ed.), Rethinking the age of reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Cambridge, 2003)
Cromwell, Valerie, ‘The Losing of the Initiative by the House of Commons, 1780-1914’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol. 18 (1968), 1-23
Eastwood, D., Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700-1870 (1997)
Fraser, P., ‘Party Voting in the House of Commons, 1812-1827’, English Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 389 (Oct., 1983), 763-784
* Hawkins, A., ‘Parliamentary government and Victorian political parties, c.1830-1880,’ English Historical Review, 104: 412 (July 1989)
LoPatin-Lummis, Nancy, 'Ritual, symbolism, and radical rhetoric: political unions and political identity in the age of parliamentary reform,’ Journal of Victorian Culture, 3 (1998), 1-29
Mandler, Peter. Aristocratic government in the age of reform: Whigs and Liberals, 1830-1852 (Oxford, 1990)
Murray, B. K. ‘The politics of the 'People's Budget',’ Historical Journal, 16:3 (1973), 555-70
Newbould, I, ‘Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative Party, 1832-1841: A Study in Failure?’, English Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 388 (Jul., 1983), 529-557
Pentland, Gordon, 'The Debate on Scottish Parliamentary Reform, 1830-1832', Scottish Historical Review, 85:1 (2006), 100-30.
Pugh, M., State and Society: a social and political history of Britain 1870-1997 (1999), chapter 2.
Quinault, R., ‘1848 and parliamentary reform,’ Historical Journal, 31: 4 (1998)
* Saunders, Robert, ‘The politics of reform and the making of the second reform act, 1848-1867,’ Historical Journal, 50:3 (2007), 571-91
Saunders, Robert, ‘Lord John Russell and Parliamentary Reform, 1848–67,’ English Historical Review, 120:489 (2005), 1289-1315.
Salmon, Philip J., '"Reform Should Begin at Home": English Municipal and Parliamentary Reform, 1818-32', Parliamentary History, 24: Suppl (2005), 93-113.
Taylor, M., ‘Rethinking the Chartists: Searching for Synthesis in the Historiography of Chartism,’ Historical Journal, 39:2 (June 1996)
* Vernon, James (ed.), Re-reading the constitution: new narratives in the political history of England's long nineteenth century (Cambridge, 1996)
* Vernon, James, Politics and the people: study in English political culture, c.1815-1867 (Cambridge, 1993)
Wasson, Ellis Archer, 'The crisis of aristocracy: parliamentary reform, the peerage and the House of Commons, 1750-1914', Parliamentary History, 13 (1994), 297-311
Wasson, Ellis Archer, 'The great Whigs and parliamentary reform, 1809-30', Journal of British Studies, 24 (1985), 434-64.
Urban imperatives and rural idylls
Arscott, Caroline; Pollock, Greselda and Wolff, Janet, ‘The partial view: the visual representation of the early nineteenth-century city,’ in Wolff, Janet, and Seed, John (ed.), The culture of capital: art, power and the nineteenth century middle class (Manchester, 1988), 191-233
* J. V. Beckett, ‘Our Green and Pleasant Land,’ Journal of British Studies, 38: 2 (1999)
Briggs, Asa, 'The Victorian city: quantity and quality', Victorian Studies, 11, supplement (1968), 711-30
Burchardt, J., Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change in England since 1800 (2002)
Cannadine, D., ‘Victorian Cities: How Different?’ in R. J. Morris and R. Rodger, The Victorian City (1993)
Dunbabin, J. P. D., Rural Discontent in nineteenth century Britain (1974)
* Dyos H.J. and Wolff, M. eds., The Victorian City: Images and Realities, 2 vols (1973)
Dyos, H. J., ‘The Slums of Victorian London’, Victorian Studies, 11:1 (1967)
Dennis, Richard, and Daniels, Stephen, '"Community" and the social geography of Victorian cities', In Drake, Michael (ed.), Time, family and community: perspectives on family and community history (Oxford, 1994), 201-24.
Fraser, Derek, Urban politics in Victorian England: the structure of politics in Victorian cities (Leicester, 1976)
Fraser, D., Power and authority in the Victorian city (1979)
Gunn, S., The public culture of the Victorian middle class: ritual and authority and the English industrial city, 1840-1914 (Manchester, 2000)
Joyce, Patrick, The rule of freedom: liberalism and the modern city (London, 2003)
* Mingay, G. E., The Rural Idyll (1989)
Port, Michael Harry, ‘Government and the metropolitan image: ministers, parliament and the concept of a capital city, 1840-1915,’ Art History, 22:4 (1999), 567-92
Reay, Barry, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England (Oxford, 1990)
Walkowitz, J. R., ‘Going Public: shopping, street harassment and streetwalking in late Victorian London,’ Representations, 62 (Spring 1998)
Mingay, G, E., A Social History of the English Countryside (Routledge, London, 1990).
Snell, K.D.M., Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social change and Agrarian England 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 1987)
Buder, Stanley , Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community (Oxford, 1990)
Copley, S, and Garside, P., The Politics of the Picturesque: Literature, Landscape and Aesthetics since 1770 (Cambridge, 1994)
Cowell, B., „The Commons Preservation Society and the Campaign the Berkhamsted Common, 1866-70‟, Rural History, 13, 2 (2002) 145-62.
Horn, P., The Changing Countryside in Victoria and Edwardian England and Wales (London, 1984).
Howkins, A., Reshaping Rural England (London, 1992).
Howkins, A., The Death of rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900, (London, 2003).
Marsh, J., Back to the Land: the Pastoral impulse in Victorian England from 1880-1914 (London, 1982).
Mingay, G.E., (ed) The Unquiet Countryside (London, 1989).
Mingay, G.E., The Vanishing Countryman (London, 1989).
Mingay, G.E., Land, Labour and Agriculture 1700-1920 (Hambleden Press, London, 1991)
Helsinger, Elizabeth K., Rural scenes and national representation : Britain, 1815-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1997)
Wohl, Anthony S. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London, (2002)
Arscott, Caroline; Pollock, Greselda and Wolff, Janet, ‘The partial view: the visual representation of the early nineteenth-century city,’ in Wolff, Janet, and Seed, John (ed.), The culture of capital: art, power and the nineteenth century middle class (Manchester, 1988), 191-233
* J. V. Beckett, ‘Our Green and Pleasant Land,’ Journal of British Studies, 38: 2 (1999)
Briggs, Asa, 'The Victorian city: quantity and quality', Victorian Studies, 11, supplement (1968), 711-30
Burchardt, J., Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change in England since 1800 (2002)
Cannadine, D., ‘Victorian Cities: How Different?’ in R. J. Morris and R. Rodger, The Victorian City (1993)
Dunbabin, J. P. D., Rural Discontent in nineteenth century Britain (1974)
* Dyos H.J. and Wolff, M. eds., The Victorian City: Images and Realities, 2 vols (1973)
Dyos, H. J., ‘The Slums of Victorian London’, Victorian Studies, 11:1 (1967)
Dennis, Richard, and Daniels, Stephen, '"Community" and the social geography of Victorian cities', In Drake, Michael (ed.), Time, family and community: perspectives on family and community history (Oxford, 1994), 201-24.
Fraser, Derek, Urban politics in Victorian England: the structure of politics in Victorian cities (Leicester, 1976)
Fraser, D., Power and authority in the Victorian city (1979)
Gunn, S., The public culture of the Victorian middle class: ritual and authority and the English industrial city, 1840-1914 (Manchester, 2000)
Joyce, Patrick, The rule of freedom: liberalism and the modern city (London, 2003)
* Mingay, G. E., The Rural Idyll (1989)
Port, Michael Harry, ‘Government and the metropolitan image: ministers, parliament and the concept of a capital city, 1840-1915,’ Art History, 22:4 (1999), 567-92
Reay, Barry, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England (Oxford, 1990)
Walkowitz, J. R., ‘Going Public: shopping, street harassment and streetwalking in late Victorian London,’ Representations, 62 (Spring 1998)
Mingay, G, E., A Social History of the English Countryside (Routledge, London, 1990).
Snell, K.D.M., Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social change and Agrarian England 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 1987)
Buder, Stanley , Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community (Oxford, 1990)
Copley, S, and Garside, P., The Politics of the Picturesque: Literature, Landscape and Aesthetics since 1770 (Cambridge, 1994)
Cowell, B., „The Commons Preservation Society and the Campaign the Berkhamsted Common, 1866-70‟, Rural History, 13, 2 (2002) 145-62.
Horn, P., The Changing Countryside in Victoria and Edwardian England and Wales (London, 1984).
Howkins, A., Reshaping Rural England (London, 1992).
Howkins, A., The Death of rural England: a social history of the countryside since 1900, (London, 2003).
Marsh, J., Back to the Land: the Pastoral impulse in Victorian England from 1880-1914 (London, 1982).
Mingay, G.E., (ed) The Unquiet Countryside (London, 1989).
Mingay, G.E., The Vanishing Countryman (London, 1989).
Mingay, G.E., Land, Labour and Agriculture 1700-1920 (Hambleden Press, London, 1991)
Helsinger, Elizabeth K., Rural scenes and national representation : Britain, 1815-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1997)
Wohl, Anthony S. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London, (2002)
Social Reform and Charity
* Englander, D., and O’Day, R., Retrieved Riches: Social Investigation in Britain, 1840-1915 (1995)
Loftus, D., ' Investigating Work in late Nineteenth-century London', History Workshop Journal, 71:1 (2011) 173-193
Freeman, Mark, 'Seebohm Rowntree and secondary poverty, 1899-1954', Economic History Review, 64:4 (2011) 1175-1194
Freeman, Mark, Social investigation and rural England, 1870-1914 (Woodbridge, 2003)
Flegel, Monica, "Facts and their Meaning" : Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England', Victorian Review, 33:1 (2007) 87-101
Harris, Bernard; Bridgen, Paul (ed.), Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 (Routledge studies in the social history of medicine) (New York; London: Routledge, 2007)
Vicarious Vagrants : Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England, 1860-1910, edited, with annotations and an introductory essay by Mark Freeman and Gillian Nelson. (Lambertville (NJ): True Bill, 2008)
Harris, Bernard, The origins of the British welfare state : society, state, and social welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945 (Basingstoke, 2004)
Joyce, Patrick, Visions of the people: industrial England and the question of class, 1848-1914 (Cambridge, 1991)
Levin, Michael, The Condition of England question: Carlyle, Mill, Engels (Basingstoke, 1998)
Livesey, Ruth, 'Reading for Character: Women Social Reformers and Narratives of the Urban Poor in Late Victorian and Edwardian London', Journal of Victorian Culture, 9:1 (2004) 43-67
Crook, Tom, 'Accommodating the outcast: common lodging houses and the limits of urban governance in Victorian and Edwardian London', Urban History, 35:3 (2008) 414-36
HURREN, Elizabeth T., 'Poor Law versus Public Health : Diphtheria, Sanitary Reform and the 'Crusade' against Outdoor Relief, 1870–1900', Social History of Medicine,
18:3 (2005) 399-418
Melling, Joseph; Forsythe, Bill (ed.), Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective (Routledge studies in the social history of medicine, 9) (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
GILBERT, Pamela K. Cholera and nation : doctoring the social body in Victorian England (Albany, 2008)
Prochaska, F., Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century England (1980)
Prochaska, F. K. ‘Victorian England: the age of societies,’ In Cannadine, David; Pellew, Jill (ed.), History and philanthropy: Past, present and future (London, 2008), 19-32.
Prochaska, F. K. ‘Women in English philanthropy, 1790-1830,’ International Review of Social History, 19 (1974), 426-45
* Hennock, E. P., ‘The Measurement of Urban Poverty: From the Metropolis to the Nation, 1880-1920,’ Economic History Review, 40:2 (1987)
Hennock, E. P., ‘Poverty and Social Theory in England: the Experience of the Eighteen Eighties,’ Social History, 1 (1976)
McKibbin, R. I., ‘Social Class and Social Observation in Edwardian England,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1978)
Mandler, P., The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth Century Metropolis (1990)
Snell, Keith, ' Belonging and community : understandings of 'home' and 'friends' among the English poor, 1750–1850', Economic History Review, 65:1 (2012) 1-25
Thompson, E.P., ‘The Political Education of Henry Mayhew,’ Victorian Studies, 11:1 (1967)
Twells, Alison, The civilising mission and the English middle class, 1792-1850 : the "heathen" at home and overseas (Basingstoke, 2009)
London:
Mayhew, H., London Labour and the London Poor (1985 ed.) [primary source]
Mearns, A., The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1970)
Stedman Jones, Gareth, Outcast London: a study in the relationship between classes in Victorian society (1971)
Samuel, R., East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (1981)
* Englander, D., and O’Day, R., Retrieved Riches: Social Investigation in Britain, 1840-1915 (1995)
Loftus, D., ' Investigating Work in late Nineteenth-century London', History Workshop Journal, 71:1 (2011) 173-193
Freeman, Mark, 'Seebohm Rowntree and secondary poverty, 1899-1954', Economic History Review, 64:4 (2011) 1175-1194
Freeman, Mark, Social investigation and rural England, 1870-1914 (Woodbridge, 2003)
Flegel, Monica, "Facts and their Meaning" : Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England', Victorian Review, 33:1 (2007) 87-101
Harris, Bernard; Bridgen, Paul (ed.), Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 (Routledge studies in the social history of medicine) (New York; London: Routledge, 2007)
Vicarious Vagrants : Incognito Social Explorers and the Homeless in England, 1860-1910, edited, with annotations and an introductory essay by Mark Freeman and Gillian Nelson. (Lambertville (NJ): True Bill, 2008)
Harris, Bernard, The origins of the British welfare state : society, state, and social welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945 (Basingstoke, 2004)
Joyce, Patrick, Visions of the people: industrial England and the question of class, 1848-1914 (Cambridge, 1991)
Levin, Michael, The Condition of England question: Carlyle, Mill, Engels (Basingstoke, 1998)
Livesey, Ruth, 'Reading for Character: Women Social Reformers and Narratives of the Urban Poor in Late Victorian and Edwardian London', Journal of Victorian Culture, 9:1 (2004) 43-67
Crook, Tom, 'Accommodating the outcast: common lodging houses and the limits of urban governance in Victorian and Edwardian London', Urban History, 35:3 (2008) 414-36
HURREN, Elizabeth T., 'Poor Law versus Public Health : Diphtheria, Sanitary Reform and the 'Crusade' against Outdoor Relief, 1870–1900', Social History of Medicine,
18:3 (2005) 399-418
Melling, Joseph; Forsythe, Bill (ed.), Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective (Routledge studies in the social history of medicine, 9) (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
GILBERT, Pamela K. Cholera and nation : doctoring the social body in Victorian England (Albany, 2008)
Prochaska, F., Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century England (1980)
Prochaska, F. K. ‘Victorian England: the age of societies,’ In Cannadine, David; Pellew, Jill (ed.), History and philanthropy: Past, present and future (London, 2008), 19-32.
Prochaska, F. K. ‘Women in English philanthropy, 1790-1830,’ International Review of Social History, 19 (1974), 426-45
* Hennock, E. P., ‘The Measurement of Urban Poverty: From the Metropolis to the Nation, 1880-1920,’ Economic History Review, 40:2 (1987)
Hennock, E. P., ‘Poverty and Social Theory in England: the Experience of the Eighteen Eighties,’ Social History, 1 (1976)
McKibbin, R. I., ‘Social Class and Social Observation in Edwardian England,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1978)
Mandler, P., The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth Century Metropolis (1990)
Snell, Keith, ' Belonging and community : understandings of 'home' and 'friends' among the English poor, 1750–1850', Economic History Review, 65:1 (2012) 1-25
Thompson, E.P., ‘The Political Education of Henry Mayhew,’ Victorian Studies, 11:1 (1967)
Twells, Alison, The civilising mission and the English middle class, 1792-1850 : the "heathen" at home and overseas (Basingstoke, 2009)
London:
Mayhew, H., London Labour and the London Poor (1985 ed.) [primary source]
Mearns, A., The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1970)
Stedman Jones, Gareth, Outcast London: a study in the relationship between classes in Victorian society (1971)
Samuel, R., East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (1981)
The ‘Celtic Fringe’?
* Colley, L., ‘Whose Nation? Class and National Consciousness in Britain, 1750-1830,’ Past and Present, 113 (1986)
Welsh, F., Four Nations: a History of the United Kingdom (2002)
Brocklehurst, Helen; Phillips, Robert, (ed.), History, nationhood and the question of Britain (Basingstoke, 2004)
Scotland:
Finlay, R. J., ‘New Britain, New Scotland, New History: the impact of devolution on the development of Scottish history,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 36:2 (2001) [historiographical review]
JACKSON, Alvin 'Gladstone, Ireland, Scotland and the "Union of heart and spirit" in Daly, Mary E.; Hoppen, K. Theodore (ed.), Gladstone : Ireland and beyond (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011)
Pittock, M.G.T., Celtic Identity and the British Image (Manchester, 1999)
Morton, G., Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland 1830-60 (East Linton, 1999)
Devine, T.M.,The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999), relevant chapters
McCaffrey, J. F., Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (1998)
PENTLAND, Gordon, The spirit of the union : popular politics in Scotland 1815-1820 (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
Morton, Graeme. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
MORTON, Graeme 'The first Home Rule movement in Scotland 1886-1918', in Dickinson, Harry Thomas; Lynch, Michael,(ed.), The challenge to Westminster : sovereignty, devolution and independence (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000)
HARVIE, Christopher, Scotland and nationalism : Scottish society and politics, 1707-1994 (2nd edn., London: Routledge, 1994)
Wales:
Cragoe, Matthew, Culture, politics, and national identity in Wales 1832-1886 (Oxford, 2004)
Davies, R., Hope and Heartbreak: a Social history of Wales and the Welsh 1776-1871 (2005)
Jones, Aled, 'The nineteenth-century media and Welsh identity,’ In Brake, Laurel, Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David, (ed.), Nineteenth-century media and the construction of identities (New York, 2000), 310-25.
Jones, R. M. 'Beyond identity?: the reconstruction of the Welsh,’ Journal of British Studies, 31 (1992), 330-57.
Ireland:
Gladstone and Ireland : politics, religion, and nationality in the Victorian age; edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 186-207 [available as an ebook via Voyager]
Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988), relevant chapters.
Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 : War, Peace and Beyond (2nd ed., 2010) [e-book via Voyager]
Hoppen, K. Theodore, 'An Incorporating Union? British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1830,’ English Historical Review, 123:501 (2008), 328-50
Morrow, John, 'Thomas Carlyle, 'Young Ireland', and the 'Condition of Ireland Question'', Historical Journal, 51:3 (2008), 643-67.
Newby, Andrew G. Ireland, radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1870-1912 (Edinburgh, 2007)
Swift, Roger; Kinealy, Christine (ed.), Politics and power in Victorian Ireland (Dublin, 2006)
Boyce, David George; O'Day, Alan (ed.), Ireland in transition, 1867-1921 (London, 2004)
Shannon, Richard. 'Gladstone and Home Rule, 1886', In Ireland after the Union (Oxford, 1989), 45-59.
Morton, Grenfell, Home rule and the Irish question (Longman, 1980)
Matthew, H. C. G., Gladstone : 1875-1898 (Oxford University Press, c1995)
DUNN, P. 'Forsaking their 'own flesh and blood'? Ulster unionism, Scotland and home rule, 1886-1914', Irish Historical Studies, 146 (2010) 203-220
England, a comparative perspective:
Peatling, Gary K. 'Home Rule for England, English nationalism, and Edwardian debates about constitutional reform', Albion, 35:1 (2003), 71-90
* Colley, L., ‘Whose Nation? Class and National Consciousness in Britain, 1750-1830,’ Past and Present, 113 (1986)
Welsh, F., Four Nations: a History of the United Kingdom (2002)
Brocklehurst, Helen; Phillips, Robert, (ed.), History, nationhood and the question of Britain (Basingstoke, 2004)
Scotland:
Finlay, R. J., ‘New Britain, New Scotland, New History: the impact of devolution on the development of Scottish history,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 36:2 (2001) [historiographical review]
JACKSON, Alvin 'Gladstone, Ireland, Scotland and the "Union of heart and spirit" in Daly, Mary E.; Hoppen, K. Theodore (ed.), Gladstone : Ireland and beyond (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011)
Pittock, M.G.T., Celtic Identity and the British Image (Manchester, 1999)
Morton, G., Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland 1830-60 (East Linton, 1999)
Devine, T.M.,The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999), relevant chapters
McCaffrey, J. F., Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (1998)
PENTLAND, Gordon, The spirit of the union : popular politics in Scotland 1815-1820 (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)
Morton, Graeme. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
MORTON, Graeme 'The first Home Rule movement in Scotland 1886-1918', in Dickinson, Harry Thomas; Lynch, Michael,(ed.), The challenge to Westminster : sovereignty, devolution and independence (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000)
HARVIE, Christopher, Scotland and nationalism : Scottish society and politics, 1707-1994 (2nd edn., London: Routledge, 1994)
Wales:
Cragoe, Matthew, Culture, politics, and national identity in Wales 1832-1886 (Oxford, 2004)
Davies, R., Hope and Heartbreak: a Social history of Wales and the Welsh 1776-1871 (2005)
Jones, Aled, 'The nineteenth-century media and Welsh identity,’ In Brake, Laurel, Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David, (ed.), Nineteenth-century media and the construction of identities (New York, 2000), 310-25.
Jones, R. M. 'Beyond identity?: the reconstruction of the Welsh,’ Journal of British Studies, 31 (1992), 330-57.
Ireland:
Gladstone and Ireland : politics, religion, and nationality in the Victorian age; edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 186-207 [available as an ebook via Voyager]
Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 (1988), relevant chapters.
Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 : War, Peace and Beyond (2nd ed., 2010) [e-book via Voyager]
Hoppen, K. Theodore, 'An Incorporating Union? British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1830,’ English Historical Review, 123:501 (2008), 328-50
Morrow, John, 'Thomas Carlyle, 'Young Ireland', and the 'Condition of Ireland Question'', Historical Journal, 51:3 (2008), 643-67.
Newby, Andrew G. Ireland, radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1870-1912 (Edinburgh, 2007)
Swift, Roger; Kinealy, Christine (ed.), Politics and power in Victorian Ireland (Dublin, 2006)
Boyce, David George; O'Day, Alan (ed.), Ireland in transition, 1867-1921 (London, 2004)
Shannon, Richard. 'Gladstone and Home Rule, 1886', In Ireland after the Union (Oxford, 1989), 45-59.
Morton, Grenfell, Home rule and the Irish question (Longman, 1980)
Matthew, H. C. G., Gladstone : 1875-1898 (Oxford University Press, c1995)
DUNN, P. 'Forsaking their 'own flesh and blood'? Ulster unionism, Scotland and home rule, 1886-1914', Irish Historical Studies, 146 (2010) 203-220
England, a comparative perspective:
Peatling, Gary K. 'Home Rule for England, English nationalism, and Edwardian debates about constitutional reform', Albion, 35:1 (2003), 71-90
Empire
* Porter, A., ‘The Balance Sheet of Empire, 1850-1914,’ Historical Journal, 31:3 (1988)
Bayly, C. A. Imperial meridian : the British Empire and The World, 1780-1830 (Longman, 1989)
Hyam, R., Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815-1914 (1993)
Marshall, P.J. ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (1996)
Porter, A., Oxford History of the British Empire, vol III: the nineteenth century (1999)
Porter, Andrew N. 'Religion and Empire: British Expansion in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 20:3 (1992), 370-90
McClintock, A., Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (1994)
Kidd, Colin, 'Race, empire, and the limits of nineteenth-century Scottish nationhood,’ Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003), 873-92
Armitage, David, The ideological origins of the British Empire /( Cambridge University Press, 2000)
MATIKKALA, Mira, Empire and the imperial ambition : liberty, Englishness and anti-imperialism in late-Victorian Britain (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011)
CAREY, Hilary M.: God's empire : religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
BALLANTYNE, Tony, 'The changing shape of the modern British empire and its historiography', Historical Journal, 53:2 (2010) 429-52
MAGEE, Gary Bryan, and THOMPSON, Andrew Stuart, Empire and globalisation : networks of people, goods and capital in the British world, c.1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
LAMBERT, David and LESTER, Alan (ed.) Colonial lives across the British Empire : imperial careering in the long nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Compare the debate:
MacKenzie, J., Propaganda and Empire: the Manipulation of British Public Opinion (1985)
Porter, Bernard. The absent-minded imperialists: empire, society, and culture in Britain (Oxford, 2004)
Porter, Bernard, ‘Further Thoughts on Imperial Absent-Mindedness,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36:1 (2008), 101-17.
MacKenzie, John, '"Comfort" and Conviction: A Response to Bernard Porter,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36:4 (2008), 659-68
* Porter, A., ‘The Balance Sheet of Empire, 1850-1914,’ Historical Journal, 31:3 (1988)
Bayly, C. A. Imperial meridian : the British Empire and The World, 1780-1830 (Longman, 1989)
Hyam, R., Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815-1914 (1993)
Marshall, P.J. ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (1996)
Porter, A., Oxford History of the British Empire, vol III: the nineteenth century (1999)
Porter, Andrew N. 'Religion and Empire: British Expansion in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 20:3 (1992), 370-90
McClintock, A., Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context (1994)
Kidd, Colin, 'Race, empire, and the limits of nineteenth-century Scottish nationhood,’ Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003), 873-92
Armitage, David, The ideological origins of the British Empire /( Cambridge University Press, 2000)
MATIKKALA, Mira, Empire and the imperial ambition : liberty, Englishness and anti-imperialism in late-Victorian Britain (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011)
CAREY, Hilary M.: God's empire : religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
BALLANTYNE, Tony, 'The changing shape of the modern British empire and its historiography', Historical Journal, 53:2 (2010) 429-52
MAGEE, Gary Bryan, and THOMPSON, Andrew Stuart, Empire and globalisation : networks of people, goods and capital in the British world, c.1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
LAMBERT, David and LESTER, Alan (ed.) Colonial lives across the British Empire : imperial careering in the long nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Compare the debate:
MacKenzie, J., Propaganda and Empire: the Manipulation of British Public Opinion (1985)
Porter, Bernard. The absent-minded imperialists: empire, society, and culture in Britain (Oxford, 2004)
Porter, Bernard, ‘Further Thoughts on Imperial Absent-Mindedness,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36:1 (2008), 101-17.
MacKenzie, John, '"Comfort" and Conviction: A Response to Bernard Porter,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 36:4 (2008), 659-68
Trade unions and organised labour
* Chase, Malcolm, Early trade unionism : fraternity, skill and the politics of labour (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
Joyce, Patrick, Work, Society and Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (1980)
Rule, John (ed.), British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850 : the formative years (1988)
FRANK, Christopher, Master and servant law: Chartists, trade unions, radical lawyers and the magistracy in England, 1840-1865 /(Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
RAW, Louise, Striking a light : the Bryant and May matchwomen and their place in history (Rev. edn.London: Continuum, 2011)
J. E. King, ‘We Could Eat the Police: Popular Violence in the North Lancashire Cotton Strike of 1878’, Victorian Studies, 28: 3 (1985), 439-71
HOWSON, Joyce, 'The dock strike of 1889', Modern History Review, 7:3 (1996) 20-22
BLEWETT, Mary H., 'Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics : Yorkshire's Manningham Mills Strike 1890–91 and the Independent Labour Party', Labour History, 47:7 (2006) 511-35
HARVEY, Charles E. and PRESS, Jon, 'Management and the Taff Vale strike of 1900', Business History, 42:2 (2000) 63-86
LOVELL, John Christopher, 'Trade unions and the development of Independent Labour politics, 1889-1906 ', in Pimlott, Benjamin John, and Cook, Chris (ed.), Trade unions in British politics : the first 250 years.. 2nd edn. (1991) pp. 28-47
BIAGINI, Eugenio F., 'British trade unions and popular political economy, 1860-1880', Historical Journal, 30 (1987), 811-40
RULE, John, ' Trade unions the government and the French Revolution, 1789-1802', in Rule, John, and Malcolmson, Robert W. (ed.), Protest and survival : the historical experience; essays for E.P. Thompson (London: Merlin, 1993), pp.112-38
THOMPSON, James, 'The genesis of the 1906 Trades Disputes Act : liberalism, trade unions and the law', 20th Century British History, 9 (1998) 175-200
FRANK, Christopher, "Let But One of Them Come before Me, and I'll Commit Him" : Trade Unions Magistrates, and the Law in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Staffordshire', Journal of British Studies, 44:1 (2005) 64-91
WILSON, Matt Vaughan, 'The 1911 Waterfront Strikes in Glasgow : Trade Unions and Rank-and-File Militancy in the Labour Unrest of 1910-1914', International Review of Social History, 53:2 (2008) 261-92
Behagg, C., 'Custom, class and change- the trade societies of Birmingham', Social History, vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct. 1979)
Behagg, C. 'Secrecy, ritual and folk violence- the opacity of the workplace in the first half of the nineteenth century', in R.Storch (ed.), Popular culture and custom in nineteenth-century England (1982)
Belchem, J. 'Chartism and the trades, 1848-50', English Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 388 (July 1983)
Cordery, Simon, 'Friendly societies and the discourse of respectability in Britain, 1825-75', Journal of British Studies 31 (1995)
Cordery, Simon, British friendly societies, 1750-1914 (2003)
Musson, A.E., British trade unions, 1800-1875 (1972)
Prothero, I. 'William Benbow and the concept of the general strike', Past and Present 63 (1974)
Honeyman, Katrina,Women, gender and industrialization in England, 1700-1870 (2000)
Howard, N., ‘Strikes and lockouts in the iron industry and the formulation of ironworkers unions, 1862-69’, International review of social history 18 (1973)
Orth, J.V., Combination and conspiracy- a legal history of trade unionism, 1721-1906 (1991)
BALLHATCHET, Joan, 'The police and the London dock strike of 1889', History Workshop, 32 (1991) 54-68
HALL, Robert Gaston, 'Tyranny, work and politics : the 1818 strike wave in the English cotton district', International Review of Social History, 34:3 (1989) 433-70
Rendall, J Women in an industrializing society : England 1750-1880 (1990)
Rose, S.O ‘Gender antagonism and class conflict: exclusionary strategies of male trade unionists in nineteenth-century Britain’, Social history. 13: 2 (1988)
Southall, H., 'Towards a geography of unionisation- the spatial organisation and distribution of early British trade unions', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, new series vol. 13 (1988) 466-483
British trade unions 1707-1918, edited by W. Hamish Fraser. ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008, 8 vols)
JONES, Bethan Lloyd, 'Striving for Solidarity : The North Wales Miners' Association, 1890-1912', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 29/30 (2010) 1-32
Joyce, Patrick, Work, Society and Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (1980)
Rule, John (ed.), British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850 : the formative years (1988)
FRANK, Christopher, Master and servant law: Chartists, trade unions, radical lawyers and the magistracy in England, 1840-1865 /(Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)
RAW, Louise, Striking a light : the Bryant and May matchwomen and their place in history (Rev. edn.London: Continuum, 2011)
J. E. King, ‘We Could Eat the Police: Popular Violence in the North Lancashire Cotton Strike of 1878’, Victorian Studies, 28: 3 (1985), 439-71
HOWSON, Joyce, 'The dock strike of 1889', Modern History Review, 7:3 (1996) 20-22
BLEWETT, Mary H., 'Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics : Yorkshire's Manningham Mills Strike 1890–91 and the Independent Labour Party', Labour History, 47:7 (2006) 511-35
HARVEY, Charles E. and PRESS, Jon, 'Management and the Taff Vale strike of 1900', Business History, 42:2 (2000) 63-86
LOVELL, John Christopher, 'Trade unions and the development of Independent Labour politics, 1889-1906 ', in Pimlott, Benjamin John, and Cook, Chris (ed.), Trade unions in British politics : the first 250 years.. 2nd edn. (1991) pp. 28-47
BIAGINI, Eugenio F., 'British trade unions and popular political economy, 1860-1880', Historical Journal, 30 (1987), 811-40
RULE, John, ' Trade unions the government and the French Revolution, 1789-1802', in Rule, John, and Malcolmson, Robert W. (ed.), Protest and survival : the historical experience; essays for E.P. Thompson (London: Merlin, 1993), pp.112-38
THOMPSON, James, 'The genesis of the 1906 Trades Disputes Act : liberalism, trade unions and the law', 20th Century British History, 9 (1998) 175-200
FRANK, Christopher, "Let But One of Them Come before Me, and I'll Commit Him" : Trade Unions Magistrates, and the Law in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Staffordshire', Journal of British Studies, 44:1 (2005) 64-91
WILSON, Matt Vaughan, 'The 1911 Waterfront Strikes in Glasgow : Trade Unions and Rank-and-File Militancy in the Labour Unrest of 1910-1914', International Review of Social History, 53:2 (2008) 261-92
Behagg, C., 'Custom, class and change- the trade societies of Birmingham', Social History, vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct. 1979)
Behagg, C. 'Secrecy, ritual and folk violence- the opacity of the workplace in the first half of the nineteenth century', in R.Storch (ed.), Popular culture and custom in nineteenth-century England (1982)
Belchem, J. 'Chartism and the trades, 1848-50', English Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 388 (July 1983)
Cordery, Simon, 'Friendly societies and the discourse of respectability in Britain, 1825-75', Journal of British Studies 31 (1995)
Cordery, Simon, British friendly societies, 1750-1914 (2003)
Musson, A.E., British trade unions, 1800-1875 (1972)
Prothero, I. 'William Benbow and the concept of the general strike', Past and Present 63 (1974)
Honeyman, Katrina,Women, gender and industrialization in England, 1700-1870 (2000)
Howard, N., ‘Strikes and lockouts in the iron industry and the formulation of ironworkers unions, 1862-69’, International review of social history 18 (1973)
Orth, J.V., Combination and conspiracy- a legal history of trade unionism, 1721-1906 (1991)
BALLHATCHET, Joan, 'The police and the London dock strike of 1889', History Workshop, 32 (1991) 54-68
HALL, Robert Gaston, 'Tyranny, work and politics : the 1818 strike wave in the English cotton district', International Review of Social History, 34:3 (1989) 433-70
Rendall, J Women in an industrializing society : England 1750-1880 (1990)
Rose, S.O ‘Gender antagonism and class conflict: exclusionary strategies of male trade unionists in nineteenth-century Britain’, Social history. 13: 2 (1988)
Southall, H., 'Towards a geography of unionisation- the spatial organisation and distribution of early British trade unions', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, new series vol. 13 (1988) 466-483
British trade unions 1707-1918, edited by W. Hamish Fraser. ( London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008, 8 vols)
JONES, Bethan Lloyd, 'Striving for Solidarity : The North Wales Miners' Association, 1890-1912', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 29/30 (2010) 1-32
Religion and Science
McLeod, Hugh, 'Religion in nineteenth-century Britain' [Review article], Journal of British Studies, 38:3 (1999), 385-91
McLeod, Hugh, Religion and irreligion: the working class church in Victorian England (Bangor, 1993)
* Wolffe, J., God and Greater Britain: Religion and National Life in Britain and Ireland, 1843-1945 (1994)
McLeod, H., Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City (1974)
* McLeod, H., Religion and the working class in nineteenth-century Britain (1984)
Snell, K.D.M., Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000)
Hogan, A., Bradstock, A., Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: reassessing the angel in the house (1998)
Parsons, G., ed., Religion in Victorian Britain (1988), various volumes
Green, Simon J. D., 'Unestablished versions: voluntary religion in the Victorian north' [Review article], Northern History, 30 (1994), 193-207
Meacham, Standish, ‘The Church in the Victorian City,’ Victorian Studies, 11:3 (1968) 359-378
Gilbert, A. D., Religion and Society in Industrial England (1976)
Hempton, D., Religion and the People: Methodism and Popular Relgiion, 1750-1900 (1996)
Bebbington, D. W., The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics, 1870-1914 (1982)
Turner, Frank Miller, 'The Victorian conflict between science and religion: a professional dimension', in Turner, Frank Miller, Contesting cultural authority: essays in Victorian intellectual life (Cambridge, 1993), 171-200.
McLaughlin-Jenkins, Erin, 'Common knowledge: science and the late Victorian working-class press', History of Science, 39:4:126 (2001), 445-65
Daunton, Martin J. (ed.), The organisation of knowledge in Victorian Britain (Oxford, 2005)
CANTOR, Geoffrey N., Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Debate about secularisation:
Brown, Callum G., The death of Christian Britain: understanding secularisation, 1800-2000 (London, 2000)
McLeod Hugh and Ustorf, W. eds., The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000 (2003)
Morris, Jeremy N., 'The strange death of Christian Britain: another look at the secularization debate', Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003), 963-76.
ERDOZAIN, Dominic, 'The Secularisation of Sin in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62:1 (2011) 59-88
Family
* Anderson, Michael, Approaches to the history of the Western Family (1994)
Cunningham, Hugh, Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (1995)
Cunningham, Hugh, Children of the Poor: representations of childhood since the seventeenth century (1991)
Davidoff, L., and Hall, C., Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class (1987) –
And its retort by Amanda Vickery, ‘Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English Women’s History,’ Historical Journal, 36:2 (1993)
Broughton, Trev Lynn, Rogers, Helen, (ed.), Gender and fatherhood in the nineteenth century (Basingstoke, 2007)
Delap, Lucy; Griffin, Ben; Wills, Abigail (ed.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (London, 2009)
Garrett, Eilidh, 'The trials of labour: motherhood versus employment in a nineteenth-century textile centre', Continuity and Change, 5:1 (1990), 121-54
* Hammerton, A.J., ‘Pooterism or Partnership? Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Classes, 1870-1920,’ Journal of British Studies, 38:3 (1999)
Hammerton, A. J., 'The perils of Mrs Pooter: satire, modernity and motherhood in the lower middle class in England, 1870-1920', Women's History Review, 8 (1999), 261-76
Hopkins, E., Childhood Transformed: working class children in nineteenth century England (1994)
Hendrick, H., Child Welfare, England, 1872-1989 (1994)
GRIFFIN, Ben, The politics of gender in Victorian Britain : masculinity, political culture and the struggle for women's rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Nelson, Claudia; Holmes, Ann Sumner, Maternal instincts: visions of motherhood and sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925 (Basingstoke, 1997)
Owens, Alastair, 'Property, gender and the life course: inheritance and family welfare provision in early nineteenth-century England', Social History [London], 26:3 (2001), 299-317
Ross, Ellen, Love and toil: motherhood in outcast London, 1870-1918 (Oxford University Press, 1993) [available as an e-book via Voyager]
Seccombe, W., Weathering the Storm: working class families from the industrial revolution to the fertility decline (1993)
Shuttleworth, Sally, 'Demonic mothers: ideologies of bourgeois motherhood in the mid-Victorian era', In Shires, L. M. (ed.), Rewriting the Victorians: theory, history, and the politics of gender (1992)
Julie Marie Strange, 'Fatherhood, Providing and Attachment in Late Victorian and Edwardian Working-Class Families', The Historical Journal, Volume 55, Issue 04 (December 2012), 1007-1027
Tosh, John, Manliness and masculinities in nineteenth-century Britain: essays on gender, family and empire (Harlow, 2005)
Tosh, John, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the middle class home in Victorian England (1995)
* Yeo, Eileen Jane, 'The creation of "motherhood" and women's responses in Britain and France, 1750-1914', Women's History Review, 8 (1999), 201-18
* Anderson, Michael, Approaches to the history of the Western Family (1994)
Cunningham, Hugh, Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (1995)
Cunningham, Hugh, Children of the Poor: representations of childhood since the seventeenth century (1991)
Davidoff, L., and Hall, C., Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class (1987) –
And its retort by Amanda Vickery, ‘Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English Women’s History,’ Historical Journal, 36:2 (1993)
Broughton, Trev Lynn, Rogers, Helen, (ed.), Gender and fatherhood in the nineteenth century (Basingstoke, 2007)
Delap, Lucy; Griffin, Ben; Wills, Abigail (ed.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (London, 2009)
Garrett, Eilidh, 'The trials of labour: motherhood versus employment in a nineteenth-century textile centre', Continuity and Change, 5:1 (1990), 121-54
* Hammerton, A.J., ‘Pooterism or Partnership? Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Classes, 1870-1920,’ Journal of British Studies, 38:3 (1999)
Hammerton, A. J., 'The perils of Mrs Pooter: satire, modernity and motherhood in the lower middle class in England, 1870-1920', Women's History Review, 8 (1999), 261-76
Hopkins, E., Childhood Transformed: working class children in nineteenth century England (1994)
Hendrick, H., Child Welfare, England, 1872-1989 (1994)
GRIFFIN, Ben, The politics of gender in Victorian Britain : masculinity, political culture and the struggle for women's rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Nelson, Claudia; Holmes, Ann Sumner, Maternal instincts: visions of motherhood and sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925 (Basingstoke, 1997)
Owens, Alastair, 'Property, gender and the life course: inheritance and family welfare provision in early nineteenth-century England', Social History [London], 26:3 (2001), 299-317
Ross, Ellen, Love and toil: motherhood in outcast London, 1870-1918 (Oxford University Press, 1993) [available as an e-book via Voyager]
Seccombe, W., Weathering the Storm: working class families from the industrial revolution to the fertility decline (1993)
Shuttleworth, Sally, 'Demonic mothers: ideologies of bourgeois motherhood in the mid-Victorian era', In Shires, L. M. (ed.), Rewriting the Victorians: theory, history, and the politics of gender (1992)
Julie Marie Strange, 'Fatherhood, Providing and Attachment in Late Victorian and Edwardian Working-Class Families', The Historical Journal, Volume 55, Issue 04 (December 2012), 1007-1027
Tosh, John, Manliness and masculinities in nineteenth-century Britain: essays on gender, family and empire (Harlow, 2005)
Tosh, John, A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the middle class home in Victorian England (1995)
* Yeo, Eileen Jane, 'The creation of "motherhood" and women's responses in Britain and France, 1750-1914', Women's History Review, 8 (1999), 201-18
Leisure
Bailey, P., Leisure and Class in Victorian England (1978)
* Cunningham, Hugh, Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (1980)
Meller, H. E., Leisure and the Changing City, 1870-1914 (1976)
Read, D., The Age of Urban Democracy (1994), chapters on cultural life
Walvin, J., Leisure and Society, 1830-1950 (1978)
Elliott, Paul; Daniels, Stephen; Watkins, Charles, 'The Nottingham Arboretum (1852): natural history, leisure and public culture in a Victorian regional centre'. Urban History, 35:1 (2008), 48-71
Shpayer-Makov, Haia, 'Re-linking work and leisure in late Victorian and Edwardian England: the emergence of a police subculture'. International Review of Social History, 47:2 (2002), 213-41
Flanders, Judith, Consuming passions: leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain (London, 2006)
Huggins, Mike; Mangan, James Anthony (ed.), Disreputable pleasures: less virtuous Victorians at play (London, 2004)
Thomas, K., ‘Work and Leisure in Industrial Society’, Past and Present, 30 (Apr., 1965), 96-103
Parratt, Catriona M. 'Little means or time: working-class women and leisure in late Victorian and Edwardian England', International Journal of the History of Sport, 15:2 (1998), 22-53
Walton, John K, 'Resorts and Regions: Blackpool, Southport, Lancashire and Beyond', In Brown, Alyson (ed.), Historical perspectives on social identities (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006),
Walton, John K. (ed.). Histories of tourism: representation, identity, and conflict (Clevedon, 2005)
Purbrick, Louise (ed.), The Great Exhibition of 1851: new interdisciplinary essays (Manchester, 2001)
Auerbach, Jeffrey A., Hoffenberg, Peter H., (ed.), Britain, the empire, and the world at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Aldershot, 2008), available as an ebook via Voyager
Woodson-Boulton, Amy, '"Industry without Art Is Brutality": Aesthetic Ideology and Social Practice in Victorian Art Museums', Journal of British Studies, 46:1 (2007), 47-71
Gregson, Keith; Huggins, Mike, 'Sport, music-hall culture and popular song in nineteenth-century England', Culture, Sport, Society, 2:2 (1999), 82-102.
* Bailey, Peter, 'Conspiracies of meaning: music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture', Past & Present, 144 (1994), 138-70.
* Birley, Derek, Land of sport and glory: sport and British society, 1887-1910 (Manchester, 1995)
Gibbons, Philip, Association football in Victorian England: a history of the game from 1863 to 1900 (London, 2001)
Bailey, P., Leisure and Class in Victorian England (1978)
* Cunningham, Hugh, Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (1980)
Meller, H. E., Leisure and the Changing City, 1870-1914 (1976)
Read, D., The Age of Urban Democracy (1994), chapters on cultural life
Walvin, J., Leisure and Society, 1830-1950 (1978)
Elliott, Paul; Daniels, Stephen; Watkins, Charles, 'The Nottingham Arboretum (1852): natural history, leisure and public culture in a Victorian regional centre'. Urban History, 35:1 (2008), 48-71
Shpayer-Makov, Haia, 'Re-linking work and leisure in late Victorian and Edwardian England: the emergence of a police subculture'. International Review of Social History, 47:2 (2002), 213-41
Flanders, Judith, Consuming passions: leisure and pleasure in Victorian Britain (London, 2006)
Huggins, Mike; Mangan, James Anthony (ed.), Disreputable pleasures: less virtuous Victorians at play (London, 2004)
Thomas, K., ‘Work and Leisure in Industrial Society’, Past and Present, 30 (Apr., 1965), 96-103
Parratt, Catriona M. 'Little means or time: working-class women and leisure in late Victorian and Edwardian England', International Journal of the History of Sport, 15:2 (1998), 22-53
Walton, John K, 'Resorts and Regions: Blackpool, Southport, Lancashire and Beyond', In Brown, Alyson (ed.), Historical perspectives on social identities (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006),
Walton, John K. (ed.). Histories of tourism: representation, identity, and conflict (Clevedon, 2005)
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Auerbach, Jeffrey A., Hoffenberg, Peter H., (ed.), Britain, the empire, and the world at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Aldershot, 2008), available as an ebook via Voyager
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Brennan, G. J. P., 'Late Victorian - Edwardian politics, 1886-1914: a time of deepening party divisions and realignments', Modern History Review, 12:4 (2001), 22-25
Women's suffrage:
COWMAN, Krista, 'A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History', Women's History Review, 14:3/4 (2005) 447-66
PURVIS, June & WRIGHT, Maureen, 'Writing Suffragette History : the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts', Women's History Review, 14:3/4 (2005) 405-33
BROWN, Alyson, 'Conflicting objectives : suffragette prisoners and female prison staff in Edwardian England', Women's Studies, 31:5 (2002) 627-44
PARKINS, Wendy, "The epidemic of purple, white and green" : fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain 1908-14', in Parkins, Wendy (ed.), Fashioning the body politic : dress, gender, citizenship (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002), 97-124
John, Angela V.; Eustance, Claire (ed.), The men's share? Masculinities, male support and women's suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920 (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)
Kirk, Neville, Change, continuity and class: labour in British society, 1850-1920 (Manchester, 1998)
Clarke, Peter, 'British society, 1870-1914: a tangled web' [Review article]. 20th Century British History, 6 (1995), 396-98.
Harris, Jose, Private lives, public spirit: a social history of Britain, 1870-1914 (Oxford, 1993)
Brennan, G. J. P., 'Late Victorian - Edwardian politics, 1886-1914: a time of deepening party divisions and realignments', Modern History Review, 12:4 (2001), 22-25
Women's suffrage:
COWMAN, Krista, 'A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History', Women's History Review, 14:3/4 (2005) 447-66
PURVIS, June & WRIGHT, Maureen, 'Writing Suffragette History : the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts', Women's History Review, 14:3/4 (2005) 405-33
BROWN, Alyson, 'Conflicting objectives : suffragette prisoners and female prison staff in Edwardian England', Women's Studies, 31:5 (2002) 627-44
PARKINS, Wendy, "The epidemic of purple, white and green" : fashion and the suffragette movement in Britain 1908-14', in Parkins, Wendy (ed.), Fashioning the body politic : dress, gender, citizenship (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002), 97-124
John, Angela V.; Eustance, Claire (ed.), The men's share? Masculinities, male support and women's suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920 (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)