The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham
Author: Henry Brougham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-11-07
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 3368130897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1871.
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The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Author: Paul Rock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 0429892187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service. This volume examines the origins and shaping of two critical institutions: the Crown Court, which rose from the ashes of the Courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions; and the Crown Prosecution Service which replaced a rather haphazard system of police prosecuting solicitors. The 1971 Courts Act and the 1985 Prosecution of Offences Act were to reconfigure the architecture of criminal justice, transforming the procedures by which people were charged, prosecuted and, in the weightier cases demanding a judge and jury, tried in the criminal courts of England and Wales. One stemmed from a crisis in a medieval system of travelling justices that tried people in the wrong places and for inadequate lengths of time. The other was precipitated by a scandal in which three men were wrongly convicted for the murder of a bisexual prostitute. Theirs is an as yet untold history that can be explored in depth because it is recent enough, in the words of Harold Wilson, to have been ‘written while the official records could still be supplemented by reference to the personal recollections of the public men who were involved’. This book will be of much interest to students of criminology and British history, politics and law.
Henry, Lord Brougham
Author: Ronald K. Huch
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany previous studies of Brougham have focused primarily on his early years as a leader of the Whig Party in the House of Commons, while regarding his political efforts after 1833 to be of little consequence. After a chapter summarizing Brougham's life to 1829, this study concentrates on the years from 1830 until his death and presents a new portrait of Brougham. It is a many-sided, and colourful portrait.
Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837
Author: Robert A. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-08
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780521528641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.
Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822
Author: Kenneth Neill Cameron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 1318
ISBN-13: 9780674806139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain
Author: Lawrence Goldman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-13
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1139433016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of the relationships between social thought, social policy and politics in Victorian Britain. Goldman focuses on the activity of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, known as the Social Science Association. For three decades this served as a forum for the discussion of Victorian social questions and as an influential adviser to governments, and its history discloses how social policy was made in these years. The Association, which attracted many powerful contributors, including politicians, civil servants, intellectuals and reformers, had influence over policy and legislation on matters as diverse as public health and women's legal and social emancipation. The SSA reveals the complex roots of social science and sociology buried in the non-academic milieu of nineteenth-century reform. And its influence in the United States and Europe allows for a comparative approach to political and intellectual development in this period.
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?
Author: Boyd Hilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-06-19
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 0199218919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a period scarred by apprehensions of revolution, war, invasion, poverty and disease, elite members of society lived in fear of revolt. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in society between 1783-1846 and the transformations from raffish and rakish behaviour to the new norms of Victorian respectability.
The American Crucible
Author: Robin Blackburn
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 1781685363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.
The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0739183389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social conscience of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, nineteenth-century London’s poorest parish. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a parliamentary career that lasted nearly two decades. Buxton’s association with noted activist William Wilberforce led to his own involvement in the anti-slavery movement, a cause he fiercely championed, resulting in Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1834. Buxton’s involvement in the disastrous 1841 Niger expedition effectively ended his public career and paved the way to British imperialism in Africa. A man of many interests, Buxton also supported Catholic emancipation and ending the Hindu suttee. Few nineteenth-century social reformers have had as much of an impact or have cast as long a shadow as Buxton. At the time of his death, many saw him as the epitome of Christian activism, yet today Buxton remains largely ignored and forgotten. David Bruce examines the life of one of Great Britain’s most prominent social activists. Using his personal papers, and the papers and books of his friends, associates, and contemporaries, The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton paints a portrait of a unique individual driven to improve his world.
Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1317875230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.
