ABSTRACT

D. Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century (Penguin, 1950) provides a brief introduction; on a larger scale are A. Wood, Nineteenth-century Britain, 1815-1914 (Longman, i960), D. Beales, From Castlereagh to Gladstone, 1815-85 (Nelson, 1969) and H. M. Pelling, Modern Britain, 1885-1955 (Nelson, 1960).