Subject: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century (Keywords)

Providing short, accurate and comprehensive reviews of each British Prime Minister, this book briefly describes their background and influence and their role in British history and in major world events.

'Perilous Question' evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its li...

In 1907, the social activist Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompted her to do so? Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through the social, poli...

Written by the award-winning author of 'Anthony Blunt: His Lives', this is the story of the rulers of Germany, Britain and Russia at the turn of the 20th century, told using the correspondence between the three rulers and other historical sources.