Edward F Pearce

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister

The year 1721 has many splendors, but there are also13 public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, and organized crime rampages through the streets. Only a generation earlier James II, suspected of conspiring to enforce Roman Catholicism and subordinate England to France, was driven out by t...

Transistors and Circuits: Electronics for Young Experimenters

Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act

The Ball Of Fortune (1883)

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Zephyrus: A Holiday in Brazil and on the River Plate (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Zephyrus: A Holiday in Brazil and on the River PlateI do not know that any apology is needed for publishing a new book about Brazil and the countries of the River Plate; for these lands are little known except to those who travel thither for business purposes. If some should think that ...

Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'

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The Diaries of Charles Greville: The Greatest English Diarist After Samuel Pepys

Charles Greville made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, through the reigns of George IV, William IV, and Victoria. Finally, after shaking his head over the victories of Garibaldi, he closed it, once and for all, in 1860. The grand...

Biology of Parasitism

Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole, Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister

The Quiet Rise of John Major

Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times

The Senate of Lilliput

Hummingbirds and Hyenas

The Lost Leaders