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High Minds

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

High Minds

By Simon Heffer

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About the book

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialisation but by new attitudes to politics, education, women and the workin...Show more

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9780099558477

Publisher

Cornerstone

Published year

2014

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1

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High Minds

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Paperback

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