British History 1800-2000

VICTORIA & DISRAELI

Theo Aronson
VICTORIA & DISRAELI
The Making of a Romantic partnership
Aronsen deals with that rare phenomenon, the relationship between a queen and a commoner, whose story is as bizarre and romantic as that of many a novel.
212 pages hardback (Cassell, 1977)
Condition: has dust stained page edges, good d/w and owner's signature

THE EARLY VICTORIANS AT HOME

Elizabeth Burton
THE EARLY VICTORIANS AT HOME 1837-1861
336 pages hardback (Readers' Union, 1973)
Condition: Victorian & Modern History Book Club edition with dust stained top page edges, worn d/w and owner's signature

THE WHIG INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

Herbert Butterfield
THE WHIG INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY
First publishes in 1931, Butterfield's work immediately achieved fame as a fundamental critique of the art of the historian and the ideas of progress in history.
Decades of constant academic influence have established the work as one of the foundation texts of modern historiography.
94 pages, paperback (Penguin, 1973)
Condition: has faded pages & owner's signature

PASSAGE TO AMERICA

Terry Coleman
PASSAGE TO AMERICA
A History of Emigrants from GB & Ireland to America in Mid-Nineteenth Century
This I sthe story of more than two million men, women and children who left England and Ireland to go to America in the middle ten years of the nineteenth century.
317 pages hardback (Readers' Union, 1973)
Condition: Victorian & Modern History Book Club edition with very faded pages, worn d/w and owner's signature

MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH (3 vols)

William Coxe
MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
With Original Correspondence in 3 volumes
Hardback (Henry G Bohn, 1847)
Condition: end papers have some staining, some wear on front inside binding and owner's signature.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS

George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll
AUTOBIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
Memoirs of 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) edited by his widow in 2 vols with portraits and illustrations.
Hardback (John Murray, 1906)
Condition: fair - front inside cover of vol 1 is beginning to break and both vols have owner's signature.

LORD ROSEBERY (2 vols)

The Marquess of Crewe
LORD ROSEBERY: Two Volumes
Hardback (John Murray, 1931)
Condition: 2 volume set has original library stickers on front bottom cover and inside page; also has owner's signature.

THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

H Montgomery Hyde
THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE
Very few of the notable trials throughout history can offer anything comparable to the excitement and fascination of the tragic trials of Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895. Seldom has a plaintiff-defendant and an examiner been as evenly matched as Wilde and his old school acquaintance Carson - seldom have such verbal fireworks highlighted a fundemental conflict of aesthetic and social viewpoints.
This unbiased account can not fail to grip the reader with the intensity of its catastrophe and the fascinatiing inevitability of its events, from Carson's savage cross-examination in the first trial to Lockwood's damning speech to the jury. Nor are the major characters easily forgotten: the deranged and fanatical Marquess of Queensbury, the procession of seamy youths testifying against Wilde, and Wilde himself, a shadow of whose eloquence remained in him throughout most of the ordeal, despite the appalling public jubilation over his arrest and the verdicts.
366 pages paperback (Dover, 1973)
Condition: has creased front cover and faded spine & page edges

EMINENT VICTORIANS

Lytton Strachey
EMINENT VICTORIANS
Strachey enjoyed the reputation of an iconoclast but, in his famous study of four Victorian figurtes, in fact only the essays on Cardinal Manning and Dr Arnold are consistently severe; his portrait of Florence Nightingale, though it exploded the fable of the Lady of the Lamp, is often admiring, and the tragedy of General Gordon is retailed with a note of tenderness.
267 pages paperback (Penguin, 1980)
Condition: has faded pages

A PRIMEMINISTER ON PRIMEMINISTERS

Harold Wilson
A PRIME MINISTER ON PRIME MINISTERS
Written to accompany a Yorkshire TV series, covering twelve prime ministers from Pitt the Younger to Macmillan, this copy has been signed by the author.
334 pages hardback (Michael Joseph/BCA, 1977)
Condition: good BCA edition in good condition with shelf soiled but untorn d/w and owner's signature.

QUEEN VICTORIA 1819-1861

Cecil Woodham-Smith
QUEEN VICTORIA: Her Life & Times 1819-1861
Woodham-Smith's comprehensive biography of Victoria's life up until the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
574 pages, hardback (BCA, 1973)
Condition: has faded dust cover, dust marked top page edges and owner's signature

MELBOURNE

Philip Ziegler

MELBOURNE

William Lamb, 2^nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848) has traditionally been considered if not the greatest of Britain’s Prime Ministers then at least the most charming, He is popularly remembered as the long-suffering husband of Lady Caroline Lamb whose affair with Lord Byron was notorious, but he himself was not immune to scandal: not once but twice, Queen Victoria’s first Prime Minister was dragged through the courts by an aggrieved husband. He rode these storms and showed resilience, too, during his premiership when, for seven years, he presided over a warring cabinet of highly individual Whig ministers.

412 pages paperback (Fontana, 1978)

Condition: has faded cover and pages edges and owner’s signature

A NEAR RUN THING

David Howarth

A NEAR RUN THING

This is the story of the Battle of Waterloo drawn from the accounts of the men who were there. From their recollections, Howarth had recreated the battle as it appeared to them on the day it was fought – what they saw and heard, the little that they knew of what was happening, and above all what they felt. Here, both in the narrative and the unprecedented collection of sketches, paintings and drawings, are the heat and noise, the fear and elation, the pain and sustaining hope which were everyman’s experience that day.

239 pages hardback (Book Club Associates, 1971)

Condition: has word dust cover, faded page edges and owner’s signature