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The Refiner’s Fire: The Collected Works of TheaurauJohn Tany, annotated, edited and introduced by Ariel Hessayon
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Chris Fisher – Custom, Work & Market Capitalism: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788-1888
With a new preface by Rich Daniels, chairman of Hands Off Our Forest and Forest of Dean Freeminers Association.
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Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies & Reds: A Radical History of Bristol, 1880-1939
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James Epstein – Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850
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James Epstein – The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O’Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832-1842
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Announcing Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary, marking the the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Spence.
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What explains the law-abidingness of late Victorian England? A number of modern historians contend that the answer lies with the effectiveness of policing, and with the imposition of a ‘policeman-state’ in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Exploiting the vast archive that Charles Booth amassed for his leviathan social investigation to explore the social order of London’s East End, Life and Labour of the People in London, this volume takes issue with this answer.
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The essays in this volume, (first published between 1977 and 2000), are coherent expressions, if not of a single philosophy, at least of a recurrent theme. That theme is the relationship between order and disorder in England over the century from 1850. Despite the stress fractures caused by deepening industrialization, strengthening class mobilization, and cyclical economic dislocation, Britain was a relatively peaceable kingdom in these years. Who and what were responsible for the imposition of social order?
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