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Overview: Victorian Britain, 1837 - 1901

By Professor Eric Evans
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Books

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie (Oxford Paperbacks, 2000)

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain edited by Chris Williams (Blackwell Publishers, 2004)

The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect by John Gardiner (Hambledon Continuum, 2002)

The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783 - 1870 by Eric J Evans (Longman, 2001)

Britain's Century, 1815 - 1905 by WD Rubinstein (Hodder Arnold, 1998)

The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846 - 1886 by K Theodore Hoppen (Oxford University Press, 1998)

A New England: Peace and War, 1886 - 1918 by GR Searle (Oxford University Press, 2004)

The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas (John Murray, 1998)

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine (Penguin Books, 2002)

About the author

Professor Eric Evans is head of the History department at the University of Lancaster. His specialist areas include the history of social policy, the inter-relationship between society and the political process and national identities. Recent publications include The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain 1783-1870 (2nd ed., Longman, 1996), and The Birth of Modern Britain, 1780-1914 published in 1997.

Published: 2006-09-18

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