The Victoria History of the County of Essex: edited by H. Arthur Doubleday and William Page; v. 2 edited by William Page and J. Horace Round; v. 3 Roman Essex, by W. R. Powell; v. 4-6 Ongar hundred, by R. B. Push; v. 7, by W. R. Powell; v. 8 edited by W. R. Powell, assisted by Beryl A. Board and Norma Knight; v. 9 The borough of Colchester, edited by Janet Cooper v. 10. Lexden Hundred (Part) including Dedham, Earls Colne, and Wivenhoe, by Janet Cooper, assisted by Shirley Durgan and C. C. Thornton


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The Book of Health


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The Heralds


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The English Police


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A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.




Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform


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"Usually drawn from the lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers, revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the upper classes and inherently reactionary, were consistently inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic elite. The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the 'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art, poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion, women's rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations and workers' education), as well as political affiliations and agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party). The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the history of British Classics some of the subject's ideological complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is badly needed in the current debates over the future of the discipline" -- Provided by publisher.