Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the ‘ordinary’ people of the nineteenth century. Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people.

Idle Hands focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems.

Beautifully illustrated, England Eats Out covers highly topical subjects such as the history of fast food; the rise of the celebrity chef and the fascinating history of teashops, coffee houses…

A timely look at John Buchan’s much-loved pre-First-World-War novel - what inspired it, its themes and metaphors - and at how much of the author’s own swlf and experiences are…

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Seth Stevenas mother walked out on him when he was twelve, and he was left with his abusive, alcoholic father. Years later, a case is brought to Seth surrounding a…

A massive and minutely researched history of Heraldry from early times to the late 19th century, fully illustrated throughout with full colour reproductions of crests and coats of arms described…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…