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Pitt the Elder
This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. In this momentous victory Britain effectively settled the outcome of the Seven Years' War and established itself as the world's dominant imperial power. At the heart of the conflict with France was William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham and Britain's future Prime Minister. Weaving together military history and political biography, Edward Pearce provides a portrait of the man 'with an eye like a diamond' - a man who had close ties with the slave ...
Reform!
There may be a civil war, starting in the Midlands. The Birmingham garrison have rough-sharpened their swords and barricades have gone up in the town. Wellington is trying to form a government without a majority. The Duke says 'The English people are usually quiet; if not, there are ways of making them.' These are the Days of May, High Summer of English Reform. The new Whig government has staggered everyone with a reform bill more drastic than all expectations, one to wipe out rotten boroughs and enfranchise industrial towns. It has passed the Commons, been thrown out by the Lords, then, in an election, is massively endorsed. Now in May 1832, the Lords are again blocking it. Political unions...
The Great Man
The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious. Only a generation earlier, The Pretender failed to take the Crown; the new King is cursed as a damned foreigner; James's followers - the Jacobites - conspire and are persecuted; the South Sea Bubble collapses.Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control and becomes 'Prime Minister'. He personally detects a Jacobite plot, is dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt and cynical, Walpole dominates King, Parliament and Government until 1742. This is Mr Worldywiseman, keeping England out of war for twenty years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognise today begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life.
The Golden Talking-Shop
In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to a close and Britain's position as an independent great power was over. In between, the country had experienced two devastating world wars. India—the jewel in her imperial crown—had gained independence. And there had been far-reaching changes on the domestic front: the birth of the welfare state, full men's (and eventually women's) suffrage, and the foundation of the National Health Service, to name but a few. Throughout this momentous per...
The Diaries Of Charles Greville
Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. Finally, in 1860, after shaking his head over the worrying triumphs of Garibaldi, he closed it, once and for all. The grandson of a duke, Greville looked with a level and scornful eye upon royalty. George was 'the most worthless dog that ever lived'; William 'the silliest old gentleman in his own dominions, but what can be expected of a man with a head like a pineapple?' The diaries roused Queen Victoria - 'an odd woman' - from t...
Madame Flirt
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Madame Flirt" (A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera') by Charles Edward Pearce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Lines of Most Resistance
Looks through the prism of two momentous political issues - Irish Home Rule and the reform of the House of Lords - to describe not the forces for change, but the forces for resistance to change. It is a revisionist history of British politics from 1886 to 1914, drawing on contemporary media.
Madame Flirt
"Madame Flirt" is a novel authored by Charles Edward Pearce, a British writer active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The literary work encapsulates the fundamental characteristics of Victorian-era literature, delving into the profound subjects of love, passion, and the cultural norms and obligations that governed individuals during that time period. Within the context of the prevailing social norms and practices of its time, "Madame Flirt" explores the complexities inherent in interpersonal interactions and the realm of human emotions. The narrative is presumed to center around the eponymous protagonist, Madame Flirt, and her interpersonal engagements with many characters, ill...
Denis Healey
As Chancellor in 1974-1979, Denis Healey met Britain's second greatest financial crisis of the century, faced a crashing currency and a visitation of the IMF, and brought the country through with a strengthened currency. Inside the Labour Party, he fought Tony Benn—nominally for the deputy leadership, actually for the party's survival as a national force. In this biography, Edward Pearce argues that Healey, a man of intellect and great culture, retains the qualities of the soldier he once was—loyalty, bravery, and the ability to face crisis with courage, stamina, and humor.
