The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalized young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star H

This six-volume collection brings together key documents on women’s suffrage from Britain and the Empire in the century between 1767 and 1867. With a particul

Working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the fall of Chartism in 1848 to the 1870s.

This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in

An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller comm