Dark Days Of Georgian Britain

Author : James Hobson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526702562

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Dark Days of Georgian Britain by James Hobson Pdf

A historian reveals the grittier side of Regency England, far from the country houses and costume balls of high society. Often upheld as a period of elegance with many achievements in the fine arts and architecture, the Regency era also encompassed a time of great social, political, and economic upheaval. In this insightful social history, the emphasis is on the lives of those not born into nobility—what it was like for the poor, and what challenges they faced. Using a wide range of sources, James Hobson shares the stories of real people. He explores corruption in government and elections, “bread or blood” rioting, the political discontent felt, and the revolutionaries involved. He explores attitudes to adultery and marriage, and the moral panic about homosexuality. Grave robbery is exposed, along with the sharp pinch of food scarcity, prison, and punishment. Venturing beyond the images we have from Jane Austen’s novels or costume-drama films, this book reveals a society where the popular hatred of the Prince Regent was widespread and where laws and new capitalist attitudes oppressed the poor—a society in the throes of change.

Author : JAMES. HOBSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399006061

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VOICES OF THE GEORGIAN AGE by JAMES. HOBSON Pdf

Author : Beatrice de Graaf,Frédéric Dessberg,Thomas Vaisset
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350345027

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Soldiers in Peacemaking by Beatrice de Graaf,Frédéric Dessberg,Thomas Vaisset Pdf

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each 'peace' and the military's approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

Author : James Hobson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526734877

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The English Civil War by James Hobson Pdf

Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Civil War? Did the war really split families? Was Charles I just too stupid to be King? Did Cromwell really hate the monarchy and did Parliament actually ban Christmas? In this book you'll find fast and fun answers to all your secret questions about this remarkable period of British history. Find out about people's lives and how the Civil War affected them. Learn about the role of women and if they merely stayed at home and suffered, and if Cromwell really was always miserable. James Hobson brings to life the tumultuous and unprecedented period of history that is known as the Civil War. An unfussy yet accurate history, each chapter presents a controversy in itself and sets about dispelling commonly held myths about the Civil War.

Author : James Hobson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526734907

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The English Civil War by James Hobson Pdf

Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Civil War? Did the war really split families? Was Charles I just too stupid to be King? Did Cromwell really hate the monarchy and did Parliament actually ban Christmas? In this book you’ll find fast and fun answers to all your secret questions about this remarkable period of British history. Find out about people’s lives and how the Civil War affected them. Learn about the role of women and if they merely stayed at home and suffered, and if Cromwell really was always miserable. James Hobson brings to life the tumultuous and unprecedented period of history that is known as the Civil War. An unfussy yet accurate history, each chapter presents a controversy in itself and sets about dispelling commonly held myths about the Civil War.

Author : Andrew Langley
Publisher : Heinemann Library
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0431108234

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Georgian Britain by Andrew Langley Pdf

'History of Britain' tells the story of Britain from the coming of the Romans to the present day.

Author : Graham Phythian
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750989510

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Peterloo by Graham Phythian Pdf

On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewielding cavalry, resulting in at least fifteen dead and over 600 injured. Within days the slaughter was named ' Peter-loo', as an ironic reference to the battleground of Waterloo. Now the subject of a major film, this highly detailed yet readable narrative, based almost entirely on eyewitness reports and contemporary documents, brings the events of that terrible day vividly to life. In a world in which the legitimacy of facts is in constant jeopardy from media and authoritarian bias, the lessons to be learned from the bloodshed and the tyrannical aftermath are as pertinent today as they were 200 years ago. Film director Mike Leigh has defined Peterloo as 'the event that becomes more relevant with every new episode of our crazy times'.

Author : Neil Buttery
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399084505

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Before Mrs Beeton by Neil Buttery Pdf

The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age twenty-five, she married and moved to Manchester, transforming the Manchester food scene and business community, writing the first A to Z directory and creating the first domestic servants registry office, the first temping agency if you will. Not only that, she set up a cookery school and ran a high class tavern attracting both gentry and nobility. She reputedly gave birth to sixteen daughters, wrote book on midwifery and was an effective exorciser of evil spirits. These achievements gave her notoriety and standing in Manchester, but it all pales in comparison to her biggest achievement; her cookery book The Experienced English Housekeeper. Published in 1769, it ran to over twenty editions and brought her fame and fortune. But then disaster; her fortune lost, spent by her alcoholic husband. Bankrupted twice, she spent her final years in a pokey coffeehouse in a seedy part of town. Her book, however, lived on. Influential and often imitated (but never bettered), it became the must-have volume for any kitchen, and it helped form our notion of traditional British food as we think of it today. To tell Elizabeth’s tumultuous rise and fall story, historian Neil Buttery doesn’t just delve into the history of food in the eighteenth century, he has to look at trade and empire, domestic service, the agricultural revolution, women’s rights, publishing and copyright law, gentlemen’s clubs and societies, the horse races, the defeminization of midwifery, and the paranormal, to name but a few. Elizabeth Raffald should be revered, not unknown. How can this be? Perhaps we should ask Mrs Beeton…

Author : Ruth Brocklehurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409570258

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Georgians by Ruth Brocklehurst Pdf

Author : Susan Cunnington
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290101167

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Georgian England, 1714-1820 by Susan Cunnington Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198201729

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Crowds, Culture, and Politics in Georgian Britain by Nicholas Rogers Pdf

Here, Professor Rogers looks at the role and character of crowds in Georgian politics and examines why the topsy-turvy interventions of the Jacobite era gave way to the more disciplined parades of Hanoverian England.

Author : Ruth Brocklehurst
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 074608448X

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The Georgians by Ruth Brocklehurst Pdf

A fascinating introduction to every aspect of life in Georgian Britain, from the grandeur of country stately homes to the squalor of city smugglers dens. Key figures and events include Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite rebels, Captain Cook exploring the South Pacific, the Napoleonic wars, The Boston tea party and Dr Johnson and his dictionary. Illustrated with a wide variety of different pictures including cartoons, fine art, and photographs of gorgeous medieval treasures, castles and cathedrals. Features maps, family trees, and quotes from Georgian writers, poets and historians. For those who want to explore the Georgians further, internet links, books, films and places to visit are listed at the back of the book.

Author : Robert Peal
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008437046

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Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century by Robert Peal Pdf

‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN

Author : Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101622865

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Jane Austen's England by Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins Pdf

An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

Author : Lucy Inglis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670920150

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Georgian London by Lucy Inglis Pdf

In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.