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A brief history of football
www.england-afc.co.uk/Content/History.aspx?
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Football&Filename=footballhistory
Enthusiast's history of English footaball, from the Middle Ages to the formation of FIFA in 1904.
Charles Booth (1840-1916) – a biography
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/static/a/2.html
Well-researched biography of the man who devised, organised and funded one
of the most comprehensive and scientific social surveys of London life, on
the London School of Economics website, as part of the Charles Booth Online
Archive.
History of Modern Cremation in Great Britain from 1874
www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc/History/
HistSocy.html
Located on the Cremation Society of Great Britain's website, this gives a comprehensive
history with detailed information on Sir Henry Thompson, Queen Victoria's surgeon
who was the chief promoter of cremation in the 1870s.
Race and Class Overview: Parallels in racism and class prejudice
www.victorianweb.org/history/race/rcov.html
Looks at class prejudice and racism against Irish and black people in Victorian
Britain.
The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/
victorians/middle_classes_01.shtml
Explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian
middle class and the values this class represented.
Thomas Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook
Wikipedia biography of the travel pioneer.
The Working Class Movement Library
www.wcml.org.uk
Website of a unique national collection on the history of British labour and
radical movements, including a great deal on women, based in Salford.
Books
 Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by
K D Reynolds (Oxford University Press, 1998)
A study of gender and power that examines the contribution made by women of
the British aristocracy in the 19th century, challenging the view that power
and authority were predominantly masculine attributes and showing that a partnership
of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life.
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 Dickens Christmas: A Victorian celebration by Simon Callow
(Assorted, 2003)
The publication of A Christmas Carol coincided with a decade which
saw the invention of the Christmas cracker, the first Christmas card and Prince
Albert's promotion of the Norwegian Christmas tree. Callow presents a celebration
of the traditional Dickensian Christmas.
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 Lark Rise to Candleford: A trilogy by Flora Thompson (Penguin,
2000)
First published in 1939-43 and containing Lark Rise, Over
to Candleford and Candleford Green, this is the story of the
relationships between a hamlet, a village and a small market town. The book
is based on the experiences of the author (born 1876) in the Oxfordshire countryside
and chronicles, among much else, May Day celebrations and the daily lives of
craftsmen. It is never sentimental – indeed, it describes the hardships
that the rural poor suffered with admirable bluntness. A fascinating evocation
of the past.
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 Love and Dirt: The marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick by
Diane Atkinson (Pan, 2004)
Solicitor Arthur Munby and servant Hannah Cullwick had a relationship that
endured more than 50 years. Both kept diaries, and letters were exchanged throughout
their clandestine love affair. Drawing on these and on Munby's photographs
of Hannah, all of which catalogue a tale of sexual obsession – Munby
adored seeing Hannah 'in her dirt' from scrubbing steps and cleaning chimneys
and she reciprocated with a literally slavish devotion – this work paints
a picture of the wilder shores of Victorian sexuality. It also tells the story
of a deep and lasting love between two extraordinary individuals, which breached
the barriers of class and intellect that could have divided them.
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 Middle Classes: Their rise and sprawl by Simon Gunn and Rachel
Bell (Phoenix, 2003)
The rise of the English middle class from the mid-19th century onwards is one
of the great untold stories of social history. Many of the most profound cultural
changes of the 20th century – the rise of concepts such as professionalism,
privacy, respectability, consumerism, the centrality of home – were driven
by the inexorable expansion of the suburban middle class.
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 Sport in Victorian England by Mike Huggins (Hambledon & London,
to be published June 2004)
Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing
to golf and tennis, had their origins in 19th-century Britain. They were exported
by the British empire, and Britain's influence in the world led to many of
them being adopted in other countries.
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 The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell and
Peter Ford (Allison & Busby, new edition 2001)
An extraordinary and moving story, set amongst the brutal realities of the
Victorian world, that tells of a tragic individual, Joseph Merrick, exhibited
as a freak in a Victorian sideshow and his survival against overwhelming odds.
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 Victorian Shopping by Maurice Baren (Michael O'Mara
Books, 2000)
During the reign of Queen Victoria, many changes took place in the technological
development, social structure and prosperity of Britain. Baren brings together
facts and figures about the development of what has been called 'a nation of
shopkeepers'.
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 The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl (Sutton
Publishing, 2000)
Looks at Victorian urbanisation and industrialisation and its effects on the
funeral industry, then in its infancy. Explores overcrowded churchyards, epidemics,
concerns over public health, specialised parliamentary reports of the time
and new legislation of the great Victorian cemeteries. Along the way, the author
describes some major Victorian funerals such as that of the duke of Wellington
and ends with the queen's own funeral in 1901.
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 Visions of the People: Industrial England and the question of class
c. 1848-1914 by Patrick Joyce (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
A study of how the labouring poor of 19th-century industrial England saw the
social order of which they were a part. It attacks orthodoxies and asks new
questions, from politics and work to language and art.
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