Victorian Cities Asa Briggs

Name: Victorian Cities By Asa Briggs
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Victorian Cities by Asa Briggs

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Focuses on the cities of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne and London, comparing and contrasting their social, political and topographical development.

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Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London by Asa Briggs

In 1837, in England and Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London's population more than doubled.

In this companion volume to Victorian People and Victorian Things, Lord Briggs focuses on the cities of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne (an example of a Victorian community overseas) and London, comparing and contrasting their social, political and topographical development. Full of illuminating detail, Victorian Cities presents a unique social, political and economic bird's-eye view of the past.

About Asa Briggs

Asa Briggs was born in 1921 at Keighley, Yorkshire, and from 1955 to 1961 he was Professor of Modern History at Leeds University, and in 1961 he was the first academic to be appointed to the then new University of Sussex. Six years later he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. From 1976 to 1991 he was Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He was Chancellor of the Open University from 1978 to 1994. In 1976 he was made a life peer. He is married with four children.

His main field of historical research has been in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history. He has also written A Social History of England, a revised edition of which appeared in 1994. He is currently President of the British Social History Society and of the Victorian Society.

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Sku

GOR001432411

ISBN 13

9780140135824

ISBN 10

0140135820

Title

Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London by Asa Briggs

Author

Asa Briggs

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

19900927

Number of pages

416

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N/A

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