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  • PROVINCIAL POLICE REFORM IN EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    ROGER SWIFT
    The establishment of ‘new police’ forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on London and the urban-industrial communities of the Midlands and the North. This original study contributes to the debate by examining the nature and process of police reform, the changing relationship between the police and the pub...

    $1,100.00

  • THE IRISH IN THE VICTORIAN CITY
    ROGER SWIFT / SHERIDAN GILLEY
    First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions. This book will be of interest...

    $1,100.00

  • CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS: ARISTOCRATIC VICTORIAN RADICAL
    ROGER SWIFT
    This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three...

    $1,580.00

  • IRISH IDENTITIES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
    ROGER SWIFT
    Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and an...

    $1,320.00