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All the foul facts about the Vile Victorians are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed, and how stag hunting took...

This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India....

After the Napoleonic War British artists red iscovered Italy. The heat of the South lured chilly Northene rs to discover passion amongst its pagan idylls, an allure w hich was...

A survey of Victorian style and design, covering key movements and featuring seminal work by key designers - from Morris and de Morgan to Voysey and Mackintosh. The Victorian period...

The Victorian era saw a flowering of fairy paintings as British artists in particular rejected the classical and ancient Greek subjects in favour of a deeper, closer source of inspiration...

Together can they overcome hardship, poverty and disaster? Anny Woodvine's family has worked at the ironworks for as long as she can remember. The brightest child in her road and...

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper , Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her...

London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of...

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries....

Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the...

'[William Doyle] writes on the French Revolution with more understanding, balance and clarity than any other historian, living or dead.' -Prof. Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge

Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes,...

The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run...

The book titled The Arts and Crafts Movement by the author Robin Langley Sommer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

This book shows how a discriminating eye can uncover an assortment of practical and decorative finds at antique shops and flea markets, and offers creative ways to adapt them to...

A TAXONOMY OF OFFICE CHAIRS is an exhaustive visual history of the office chair. The book illustrates over 180 of the most innovative office chairs, from the 1840s to the...

This book is both an absorbing social history and a comprehensive reference guide to 19th-century British and American artists who took Venice as their inspiration. The first part of the...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the photographer Eugene Atget embarked on a single-handed project to record for posterity the face of "vieux Paris" at a time when...

A biography of Leonard Wooley who was one of the principal figures in archaeology in the first half of the 20th century. His private life showed lapses of judgement in...

Australia's age of iron started in the 1840s when the first attempts were made to reduce Australia's dependence on Britain for imported iron. Australian iron ore was abundant and of...

This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the...

The glasshouses of the nineteenth century represent a remarkable confluence of opposites in architecture and technology. The architecture was designed to create an artificial climate in which people could return...

This work focuses on the architecture of Prague from the turn of the century to the end of World War II. It documents the architects, structures and theoretical underpinnings that...

A heartwarming and gripping novel from No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Dilly Court. Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London's...

Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long...

The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan...

Real wages, the result of a simple division of wages by prices, are at the centre of historical and socio-economic research. In a time of growing commercial and industrial internationalism,...

Godey's Lady's Book, perhaps the most popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America, had a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. The recipes (spelled ""receipts"") it published were often...

"The diaries and letters ...throb with excitement, pain, and mind-boggling determination."--Kliatt. "An outstanding collection of primary sources written by women moving west."--Wagon Tracks. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest...

Biographer of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Stanley Wientraub employs previously little-used or unknown diaries, letters, memoirs and reportage from both sides of the Atlantic to throw fresh light...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Avery Craven Prize In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families...

Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware...

The book titled Dickens: Illustrated Anthology by the author Charles Dickens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and...

Making Rural Australia challenges two common by contradictory views of Australian history. One is the 'fatal shore': Australia was a place of horrible destitution and those miserable beginnings set the...

When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796 the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the...

John Vandeleur's letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience...

In "A World on Fire" Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded...

"In The Victorians, Jeremy Paxman offers his personal take on the most important and influential period of our national past. Using the paintings of the era as his starting point...

In this work, the author investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in 19th-century France. Cafe society was not the product of a small elite...

How - in the eighteenth century - did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and smelly town, consisting of just two long streets and 40,000 inhabitants, make such an impression on...

In 1831 a talented and successful Alnwick artist recorded in his notebook something over a hundred portrait sketches of his fellow citizens. Percy Foster (born in 1801) went on to...

In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs. George Maurice Bisset, a Criminal Conversation trial in which the aggrieved Sir Richard attempted...

The book provides insights into the technicalities of working with terracotta and faience, and the final chapter discusses conservation practice in terms of cleaning, consolidation and re-manufacture.

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton,...

Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851;54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the...

Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays...

The Gothic Revival , writes Michael Lewis, 'is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles'. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art,...