This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers travel, hospitality and roads and many other aspects of British life between 1790 and 1840. It is a story often forgotten or ignored, of a country about to be transformed by railways, factories and cities.
This book explores the darker side of life in Regency Britain, 1811-1820.
A biography focussed history of the working-class men and women who brought fresh ideas to Victorian British society.
Against the background of the Civil War, Republic and Restoration, this book explores the lives and ideals of the men behind the execution of Charles I.
Explores the Georgian period through the eyes of the people who lived through it.