Geoffrey Crossick

Private Lives, Public Spirit; Women’s Voices 1880-1918; & London in the 1890s

Geoffrey Crossick reviews three new books on society in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Published August 31 1994

Classes and the Masses in Victorian England

Despite the aspirations of Disraeli and others for 'one nation', the dynamics and disparities of Victorian society inexorably sharpened the sense of class identity and its verbal expression.

Published March 1 1987

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.