Download or read book Index to the British Catalogue of Books 1837 1857 1858 written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster 1780 1890 written by M. Baer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.
Download or read book The British Catalogue of Books Published from October 1837 to December 1852 General alphabet written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wellington and Waterloo written by R. E. Foster and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events which unfolded south of Brussels on 18 June 1815 conferred instant immortality on those who took part in them. For the Duke of Wellington, Waterloo consummated victory in a long battle for what he considered to be his due recognition. Whilst he guarded that reputation jealously, he also jeopardised it by his decision to enter politics in what proved to be an especially partisan age. Even the outpouring of national grief which accompanied his death in 1852 could not totally obscure the ambivalence he had aroused in life. The memory of Waterloo, meanwhile, followed its own trajectory. Travellers initially flocked to the battlefield as if drawn by a magnet. What the triumph meant for Britain, and the wider world, moreover, became a battle in itself, one fought variously in the political, literary and artistic theatres of war. As the nineteenth century advanced, it was only Waterloo's less-exalted participants who, relatively, faded from view – or were ignored. Drawing on many under-utilised sources to illuminate some less familiar themes, this timely study offers fresh perspectives on one of Britain's best-known figures, as well as on the nature of heroism. The reader is also given pause for thought as to appropriate forms of commemoration and how national celebrations are prone to manipulation, for their own purposes, by those in government.
Download or read book The British Catalogue of Books Published from October 1837 to December 1852 written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the English People 1830 1841 written by Élie Halévy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palmerston written by David Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.
Download or read book Modern English Biography written by Frederic Boase and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whiggery and Reform 1830 41 written by Ian Newbold and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the parliamentary history of the Whigs during the Age of Reform, describing the extent to which both Grey and Melbourne's governments, with Peel's assistance, attempted to safeguard the interests of the landed aristocracy while allowing for moderate reforms in Church and State.
Download or read book Wellington after Waterloo written by Neville Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. In this book Neville Thompson traces Wellington’s life after 1815 using then new archival and documentary records. The work examines the development of Wellington’s character and outlook, and assesses the significance of his persistent involvement in politics over three decades. It shows the Duke was a crucial figure in the development of the compromise between reform and the preservation of traditional institutions and practices. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Download or read book Sir Robert Peel written by Terry Jenkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is always remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study of his career uniquely useful for students of the period. In many ways, he can be seen as the archetypal link figure between the pre-Reform and post-Reform political worlds - embodying a strange mixture of reactionary Toryism and vigorous progressivism.
Download or read book The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1860 Complete written by Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 3535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first portion of the Memoirs of the late Mr. Charles Greville, consisting of a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV., was given to the world in the autumn of the year 1874, it was intimated that the continuation of the work was reserved for future publication. Those volumes included the record of events which Mr. Greville had noted in his Diary from the year 1818 to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in the year 1837, a period of nineteen years. As they were published in 1874, an interval of thirty-seven years had elapsed between the latest event recorded in them and the date at which they appeared. The reigns of George IV. and William IV. already belonged to the history of the past, and accordingly I did not conceive it to be my duty to suppress or qualify any of the statements or opinions of the Author on public men or public events. I am still of opinion that this was the right course for a person charged with the publication of these manuscripts to pursue. I have seen it stated that the first edition of these Journals contains passages which have been suppressed in the later editions: but this is an error. The first edition contained a good many mistakes, which were subsequently pointed out by criticism, or discovered and corrected. Two or three sentences relating to private individuals were omitted, but nothing which concerns public personages or public events has been withdrawn. Eight and forty years have now elapsed since the date at which the narrative contained in the former volumes was suspended, and I am led by several considerations to the opinion that the time has arrived when it may be resumed. We are divided by a long interval from the administrations of Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord John Russell, and, with a very small number of exceptions, no one survives who sat in the Cabinets of those statesmen. Nearly half a century has elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in the earlier pages of these volumes, and in a few months from the publication of them, the nation and the empire may celebrate with just enthusiasm the jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria. Those who have had the good fortune to witness this long series of events, and to take any part in them, may well desire to leave behind them some record of a period, unexampled in the annals of Great Britain and of the world for an almost unbroken continuance of progress, prosperity, liberty, and peace. It is not too soon to glean in the records of the time those fugitive impressions which will one day be the materials of history. To us, veterans of the century, life is in the past, and we look back with unfading interest on the generations that have passed away.
Download or read book Book auction Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frand Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions.
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Paula Bartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Bartley’s Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria’s personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain’s society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did – or did not – influence events throughout her reign. Drawing from contemporary sources, including Queen Victoria’s own diaries, as well as the most recent scholarship, the book contextualises Victoria historically by placing her in the centre of an unparalleled period of innovation and reform, in which the social and political landscape of Britain, and its growing empire, was transformed. Balancing Victoria’s private and public roles, it will examine the cultural paradox of the Queen’s rule in relation to the changing role of women: she was a devoted wife, prolific mother and obsessive widow, who was also Queen of a large Empire and Empress of India. Marrying cultural history, gender history and other histories ‘from below’ with high politics, war and diplomacy, this is a concise and accessible introduction to Queen Victoria’s life for students of Victorian Britain and the British Empire.
