Looking at History

My blog looks at different aspects of history that interest me as well as commenting on political issues that are in the news

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Showing posts with label Nineteenth century society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nineteenth century society. Show all posts
Sunday, 11 November 2018

My Books and other publications

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Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...
Monday, 14 May 2018

Recollections of Victorian Birmingham

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This book offers readers an absorbing portrait of Birmingham’s nineteenth century. It provides eyewitness accounts of the main events and pe...
Monday, 26 March 2018

Why was Catholic Emancipation such a contentious issue?

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The Catholic question was left unresolved by Union and until 1823 the issue stagnated. There were two main reasons why the campaign for Cath...
Thursday, 8 February 2018

Resisting tithes

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Tithes were traditional payments that entitled the Church to a tenth of people’s annual income. Usually the payments were made in kind in t...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Treating the disabled

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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the policy of segregating severely disabled people into institutions slowly increased a...
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