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  1. Social Conditions in Britain 1918-1939

    By Stephen Constantine

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    One popular image of the interwar years portrays the period as a time of depression, deprivation and decay. However, much recent work has tended to take, on balance, a more optimistic view of social conditions. In this pamphlet Dr Constantine examines the basis for such conclusions by reviewing the...

    Published November 2nd 1983 by Routledge

  2. England Without a King 1649-60

    By Austin Woolrych

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some...

    Published March 16th 1983 by Routledge

  3. The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England

    By Lucinda Beier

    Series: Lancaster Pamphlets

    This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England. Dr Beier asks the question ‘who were the poor?’ and in answering it places the ‘problem of the poor’ in its historical context, examining it in relation to medieval provisions for dealing with poverty. He shows...

    Published March 16th 1983 by Routledge

  4. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850

    By Janet Roebuck

    In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 uses the findings of recent historical and sociological research contemporary...

    Published November 17th 1982 by Routledge

  5. British Policy and the Refugees, 1933-1941

    By Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt

    In the summer of 1940, with much of Europe under German domination, British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of those who had fled Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year, is a critique of government policies of the day....

    Published September 29th 1977 by Routledge

  6. Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    By John Foster

    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures...

    Published February 23rd 1977 by Routledge