This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial ...
His personal life largely remains a mystery, because his private papers were destroyed by fire. The authors have gone though many manuscript collections of those close to him in order to present this volume.
" -Beatrice Potter Webb, The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain An important study of social history and industry, The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain (1891) is one of Beatrice Potter Webb's earliest works.
Explains Chartism and its six points as it began as a class movement through its peak in the early 1840's and eventual decline and downfall. Looks at the lasting effects it had on British laws and customs.
Count Karl Nesselrode, Russian foreign minister 1816-1856, was a controversial figure in the government of Nicholas I. The rapprochement with Britain, perhaps his finest achievement, was opposed at every step by Russians who regarded ...
The life of John Bright can hardly fail to possess a dual interest apart from its value as a contribution to the political history of England, for not only was Bright a tribune after the type of Lincoln, but it sould be remembered that he ...