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1.		Workhouse: The people, the places, the life behind doors: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors from The National Archives Price: £6.99 Customer Review: The reforming lawyer Edwin Chadwick was appointed in 1832 to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law and as the Secretary of this commission produced a report in 1834 which resulted in a new Poor Law. This was based on utilitarian principles and Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist which was... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words from HarperPerennial Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Max Arthur's book is up to his usual standard. In their own words, the joys fears and pains of ordinary people. Far from those history books which talk only of Kings and battles and court intrigues, this history brings to life the period. One is struck above all by the poverty and deprivation, by... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition from Yale University Press Price: £10.40 Customer Review: Given that Soloman's Scott account is from a Scientist's perspective I thought I was going to be in for a hard read. I couldn't have been more wrong. Well written and well researched, Soloman smoothly guides the reader over the scientific complexities with a style not unlike a detective novel - in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 from Basic Books	Click here for more information

5.		Baedeker's London and Its Environs 1900 from Old House Books Price: £10.49	Click here for more information

6.		The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914 from Atlantic Books Price: £14.00 Customer Review: This book is one of a number of recent history books that are academically well researched, but are so well written with the layman in mind, that interest is maintained throughout and a truly remarkable story emerges. Rather than just concentrating on any one country's response to the industrial... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Origins of the First World War (Seminar Studies In History) from Longman Price: £12.99	Click here for more information

8.		Postcards from the Russian Revolution (Postcards from...) from The Bodleian Library Price: £8.54	Click here for more information

9.		South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the "Endurance" (Explorers Club Classics): The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and ... the "Endurance" (Explorers Club Classics) from The Lyons Press Price: £8.57	Click here for more information

10.		The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism: 1 (Routledge Studies in Modern European History): From Unification to Fascism (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) from Routledge Price: £57.00	Click here for more information

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