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Radical Victorians: The Women and Men who Dared to Think Differently Kindle Edition

by James Hobson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountered. The politicians, generals and commercial classes have been well covered in popular history books, but there were also thinkers of radical and unsettling ideas who had a real influence at the time. Many were women, many from the middle and working classes, and almost all outside the power structure. They were by no means all fringe ideas either – in 1840, Queen Victoria herself attended a séance, for example. The book is a biography focussed history of some of these challenging ideas and the men and women who promoted them. It looks at radical thinkers and movers, the people who stepped outside of the social norm and propelled the Victorians towards the modern day.

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James Hobson has taught and written about History as teacher for twenty-five years. His first book was The Dark Days of Georgian Britain, a social history of the Regency period. His other interest is the English Civil War – studying this as his specialism under Professor John Morrill while at the University of Cambridge. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B1961T5V
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword History (June 20, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 20, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 23370 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 228 pages

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James is a former teacher who discovered writing by accident. He started with a blog on late Georgian History ( WordPress- About1816) and sent some of it to a publisher who accepted it first time. He acknowledges that he have been very lucky in that regard!.

These two chapters -on adultery and suicide- led to a 22 chapter book called 'Dark Days of Georgian Britain' It is a social history of the poor with examples of how society was stacked against them.

His interests are the period 1600-1660 in Britain, and the late Georgian/ Early Victorian period 1780-1840.

He has also written three books on the English Civil War, with the latest one in October 2020. The English Civil War in Fact and Fiction is an introduction to the subject; The book on Oliver Cromwell is a novel twist to the idea of biography, mediated through the places he lived, ruled and fought and the new book is a panoramic study of all 59 signatories to the death warrant of Charles I.

One more book is in the pipeline for 2021, and two more in 2022. One is Georgian, one Georgian and Victorian and one is a foray into late Victorian times, which is a new area.