Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The floating brothel	Sian Rees	"In July 1789, 237 women convicts left England for Sydney Cove in Australia's New South Wales on board a ship called the Lady Julian. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined to provide…	OL12241950W
Love and Madness	Martin Levy	On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London's Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the head at point-blank range by a man in a black suit. The brutal murder was even…	OL144127W
America or Europe?	Jeremy Black	Why did Britain's position dramatically improve between 1739 and 1763? In this study, the author examines a pivotal period in Britain's rise to power status that culminated in the defeat of France in…	OL14856967W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
The age of wonder	Holmes, Richard	"The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which …	OL15576450W
Remaking the British Atlantic	P. J. Marshall	Remaking the British Atlantic focuses on a crucial phase in the history of British-American relations: the first ten years of American Independence. These set the pattern for some years to come. On t…	OL16794106W
Liberating medicine, 1720-1835	Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H.	"During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar…	OL16939783W
How to create the perfect wife	Wendy Moore	Wendy Moore's exploration of British writer Thomas Day's mission to groom his ideal mate captures the radicalism--and deep contradictions-- at the heart of the Enlightenment.	OL19964323W
Albion's fatal tree	Calvin Winslow,E. P. Thompson,John Rule,Douglas Hay,Peter Linebaugh	In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic…	OL19976208W
Revolution	P. Ackroyd	1 volume ; 20 cm	OL20913448W
Leviathan	Scott, David	The history of Britain as never before told, 'Leviathan' overturns long-held beliefs about our ancestry and weaves together the disparate strands that made the fabric of the Empire. The 350 years bet…	OL21484047W
Through the Keyhole	Susan C. Law	256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm	OL25732874W
For the love of animals	Kathryn Shevelow	In eighteenth-century England--where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine--the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pet…	OL4638167W
Great tales from English history	Robert Lacey	With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England--from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughm…	OL491643W
Seditious allegories	Michael Henry Scrivener	"The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834) - poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientist - is the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of B…	OL5898120W
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution	Deborah Kennedy	"Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) had a long and prolific career as a writer: she was a celebrated British poet, an influential translator of works of French literature and history, and an important …	OL6214994W
A Royal Affair	Stella Tillyard	The acclaimed author of Aristocrats returns with a major new book that reveals the story of a regal family plagued by scandal and notoriety and trapped by duty, desire, and the protocols of royalty. …	OL7921713W
White cargo	Don Jordan	Thousands of Britons lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.	OL8693220W
The Prime Minister of Taste	Morris Brownell	"In this book, Morris Brownell offers a fresh account of the career and influence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the great English man of letters and art historian. Rejecting both the traditional vie…	OL9381209W