This text aims to offer an innovative approach to studying 19th-century British social history. It features: a key question-based approach to take the reader to the heart of the debates and controversies that concern historians studying the changes in 19th-century Britain; extensive documentary and visual source material that has been carefully selected and analyzed to give insight into the period; accessible surveys of the relevant historiography and practical guidance on historical methodology as required for A level or equivalent examinations; and an innovative study guide approach that aims to make the period both interesting and comprehensible and which progressively develops historical understanding and the key skills required by the new A level specifications.

This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.