Author: Henry Lorenzo JephsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Platform: Its Rise and Progress
Author: Henry Lorenzo JephsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Midland railway: its rise and progress
Author: Frederick Smeeton WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress
Author: Frederick Smeeton WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050360
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 731
Book Description
This lively historical account, first published in 1876, portrays the early struggles and development of Britain's first large-scale railway amalgamation.
The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress. A Narrative of Modern Enterprise
Author: Frederick Smeeton WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The History of Broken Hill, Its Rise and Progress
Author: Leonard Samuel CurtisPublisher:
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Category : Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Scattered references to Aboriginal people.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Nineteenth Century and After
Author: The Platform
Author: Henry JephsonVictorians Against the Gallows
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.
British Political Culture and the Idea of ‘Public Opinion', 1867–1914
Author: James ThompsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107276616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and books all reflect the ubiquity of 'public opinion' in political discourse in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Through close attention to debates across the political spectrum, James Thompson charts the ways in which Britons sought to locate 'public opinion' in an era prior to polling. He shows that 'public opinion' was the principal term through which the link between the social and the political was interrogated, charted and contested and charts how the widespread conviction that the public was growing in power raised significant issues about the kind of polity emerging in Britain. He also examines how the early Labour party negotiated the language of 'public opinion' and sought to articulate Labour interests in relation to those of the public. In so doing he sheds important new light on the character of Britain's liberal political culture and on Labour's place in and relationship to that culture.