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Reforming Acts

By Alexandra Briscoe
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Books

The Age of Improvement by A Briggs (2000 edition)

Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth Century Britain, 1834-1914 From Chadwick to Booth by David Englander (1998)

Pressure from Without by P Hollis (1974)

The Politics of Electoral Pressure by DA Hamer (1977)

Victorian England by WJ Reader (1964)

Modern Britain: A Social History 1750-1987 by E Royle (2nd edition, 1997)

The Victorian Revolution: Government and Society in Victoria's Britain edited by P Stansky (1973)

About the author

Alexandra Briscoe has a background in documentary programme-making. She is Assistant Producer on Simon Schama's A History of Britain, specialising in the reign of Elizabeth I for the programme entitled The Body of the Queen.

Published: 2001-02-01

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