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Eighteenth Century Britain

  • The British Isles; a history of Four Nations by H. Kearney → return by 10/10/13
  • A Disunited Kingdom? England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1800-1949 by C. Kinealy → return by 10/10/13
  • Britons - Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 by L. Colley

The Industrial Revolution

  • Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain by M. Daunton → return by 13/10/13
  • The First Industrial Nation by P. Mathias
  • The Industrial Revolution by P. Hudson

The First British Empire & American Revolution

  • The Fall of the First British Empire and the Origins of the War of American Independence by R. Tucker and D. Hendrickson → return by 13/10/13
  • The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire by N. Koehen
  • The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763-1793 by V. T. Harlowv → return by 15/10/13
  • The Peopling of British North America by B. Bailyn
  • The British Isles and the American War of Independence by S. Conway → return by 15/10/13

The 1798 Rebellion and Union with Ireland

  • New Foundations: Ireland, 1600-1800 (ch6) by D. Dickson
  • Fellowship of Freedom: The United Irishmen and 1798 by K. Whelan → return by 15/10/13

The Slave Trade and abolition

  • Slavery and British Society, 1776-1846 by J. Walvin
  • Black Ivory: British Slaves by J. Walvin
  • Econocide, British Slavery in the Era of Abolition by S. Drescher → return by 18/10/13

The Political System

  • A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (ch14) by P. Langford → return by 18/10/13
  • Political Parties in Britain, 1783-1867 by E. Evans
  • Age of Improvement (ch2) by A. Briggs

The Demand for Reform

  • Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth Century Britain by J. Belchem → return by 20/10/13
  • Chartism by E. Royle → return by 20/10/13
  • Popular Movements, 1830-1850 by J. T. Ward

Politics in the age of Gladstone and Disraeli

  • The Conservative Party from Peel to Major by R. Blake
  • The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Government in Victorian Britain by J. Parry → return by 22/10/13 (!)

The Irish Famine

  • The Famine in Ireland by M. Daly → return by 22/10/13
  • The Great Irish Famine by C. O'Grada → return by 22/10/13

Victorian Imperialism

  • The Lion's Share by B. Porter → return by 27/10/13
  • British Imperialism; Innovation and Expansion by A.G Hopkins and P.J Cain
  • Propaganda and Empire by J.M MacKenzie
  • Imperialism and Popular Culture by J.M MacKenzie

Victorian Values

  • Victorian Values by J. Walvin → return by 27/10/13
  • Victorian Values by G. Marsden → return by 27/10/13
  • Evangelicalism in Modern Britain by D. W. Bebbington
  • Victorian Attitudes Towards Race by C. Bolt

Victorian Cities and the Urban Condition

  • Towns, Plans and Society in Modern Britain by H. Meller
  • Cities and Plans: The Shaping of Urban Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries by G. Cherry
  • Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Working Class by M. Flinn (ed) → return by 27/10/13

Britain and the International Economy

  • Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1851-1950 by M. Daunton
  • Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 by A. Howe
  • British Imperialsim: Innovation and Expansion, 1688-1914 by P. J. Cains and A. G. Hopkins

Imperial Rivalries in the 19th and 20th century

  • 'Pax Britannica?': British Foreign Policy, 1789-1914 by M. E Chamberlain → return by 5/11/13
  • The Realities Behind Diplomacy by P. Kennedy
  • Africa and the Victorians by R. Robinson and J. Gallagher
  • The Rise of Anglo-German Rivalry by P. Kennedy

British Politics, 1880-1914

  • The Making of modern British Politics by M. Pugh
  • The Evolution of the Labour Party by R. McKibben
  • The Age of Upheaval: Edwardian Politics by D. Brooks
  • Irish Home Rule by A. O'Day
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