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• The Citizen's Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Pamela K. Gilbert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Social History and Law Reform (Hamlyn Lectures, #31; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by O. R. McGregor (PDF in the UK)
• Culture and Anarchy (first edition, 1869), by Matthew Arnold (Gutenberg text)
• Culture and Anarchy (third edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Wikisource)
• Latter-Day Pamphlets, ed. by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• Past and Present (New York: W. H. Colyer, 1843), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and Present (with an appreciation by Emerson published in 1843), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: A Collection of Carlyle's Social Writings, Together With Joseph Mazzini's Famous Essay Protesting Against Carlyle's Views (2 volumes; New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Carlyle, ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss, contrib. by Giuseppe Mazzini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Autobiography of a Working Man (London: C. Gilpin; et al., 1848), by Alexander Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bygones Worth Remembering (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by George Jacob Holyoake
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Hampden in the Nineteenth Century: or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1831), by John Minter Morgan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
• Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)

• "Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles": Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Pilgrims of Hope; and Chants for Socialists, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• The Ladies of Bever Hollow: A Tale of English Country Life (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1858), by Anne Manning
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• Jill, a Flower Girl (New York: T. Whittaker, 1893), by L. T. Meade, illust. by F. H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)

• An Utopian Dream, and How It May Be Realized (London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1888), by Anna Swanwick (page images at HathiTrust)

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• When I Remember... (1940), by J. R. Clynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fashionable World Displayed (from the fifth London edition; New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour for J. Osbourn, 1806), by John Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fashionable World Displayed (eighth edition; London: Printd for L. B. Seeley, 1817), by John Owen (Gutenberg text)
• Odd People in Odd Places: or, The Great Residuum (1893), by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Thoughts at Fourscore, and Earlier: A Medley (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), by Thomas Cooper (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• The Decline of Liberty in England, by E. S. P. Haynes (DjVu at archive.org)
• England or Germany? (New York: Wilmarth Press, 1915), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters (1914), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Joseph Barker, Written by Himself (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880), by Joseph Barker, ed. by John Thomas Barker
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Modern History of the English People (2 volumes; London: Grant Richards, 1913), by R. H. Gretton
  • Volume I (1880-1898, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1899-1910): multiple formats at archive.org
• A Modern History of the English People (2 volumes; Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1913), by R. H. Gretton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The People's Progress: A Study of the Facts of National Wealth, With Some Answers to Socialists (London: J. Murray, 1910), by Frank Ireson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Regeneration: Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The False Assumptions of "Democracy" (London: Heath, Cranton, 1921), by Anthony M. Ludovici (HTML at anthonymludovici.com)
• The Revolt of Democracy (main text only; introductory bio omitted), by Alfred Russel Wallace (HTML at wku.edu)

• Underclass + 10: Charles Murray and the British Underclass, 1990-2000 (c2001), by Charles A. Murray, contrib. by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate (c1996), ed. by Ruth Lister, contrib. by Charles A. Murray (PDF at Civitas)
• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)

• Social History and Law Reform (Hamlyn Lectures, #31; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by O. R. McGregor (PDF in the UK)

• Just Managing? What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017), by Mark O'Brien and Paul Kyprianou (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Guide to the Printed Materials for English Social and Economic History, 1750-1850 (2 volumes; New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Judith Blow Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deerbrook, by Harriet Martineau
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg texts)

• New Statesman (partial serial archives)
• Socialist Worker, by Socialist Workers Party (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)

• The Condition of England, by Charles F. G. Masterman (text and other formats at theconditionofengland.com)

• The Battle for Northern Ireland (Belfast: County Grand Orange Lodge of Belfast, 1971), by W. Martin Smyth (HTML at CAIN)
• A Record of Constructive Change (Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1971), by Northern Ireland (HTML at CAIN)

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