This short book for students examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the c...

In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was ...

This book examines the scale and nature of child employment in Britain and the changing attitude ...

In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was ...

Subtitled 'The Real Life of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939'. Complimented by numerous contem...

The real lives of servants in the second half of the twentieth century.

A superbly- illustrated account of the British system of education in the late nineteenth and ear...

Real women's lives in the era of The Great Gatsby.

The story of the shopworkers who emerged during the Victorian and Edwardian era to cater for all ...

The real lives of women in Britain's country houses.

It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Vic...

Forget glossy period dramas, here is the real story of Britain's super-rich from the First World ...

A guided tour of this historic town, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed ove...

An honest account of what life was really like for the rural community in the Victorian age

A fascinating and very readable exploration of how young offenders have passed through the legal ...

The fascinating history of Abingdon, illustrated through old and modern pictures.

A fun history of the Victorians exploring how the people of the Industrial Revolution amused them...