This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization,

Concise, up-to-date survey of the sporting 'revolution', and its cultural and economic consequences.

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history o

In 1750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by 1914 England, together with handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in hi

This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably