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Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era

Hardback

Main Details

Title Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Hobson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:196
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
Road and motor vehicles
ISBN/Barcode 9781781558225
ClassificationsDewey:388.32280941
Audience
General
Illustrations 32 colour and black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Fonthill Media Ltd
Imprint Fonthill Media Ltd
Publication Date 20 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Passengers' is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid technological change and social tension. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the inspiration for Charles Dickens's work on poverty and injustice. The book has an initial focus on transport and hospitality, but it is also a wider portrait of this important but neglected period of British history. The author covers all aspects of the period-work, law, technology, finance, politics, poverty and crime are the most prominent. The inn and the stagecoach were some of the few places that the different classes met and co-existed in a country that was stratified and deferential. The poor served the transport and hospitality system, the middle classes used it and the ruling classes profited from it. The life of women is an important part of this book; they worked at levels in the travel and hospitality industries.This is everybody's story, an exposition of real places and real people in a society that was 'on the move', in all senses of the phrase.

Author Biography

James Hobson studied history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He developed a new interest in writing about the Georgian and Victorian era after retiring from twenty five years teaching in British secondary schools. He enjoys discussions and debates about History on social media and writes and gives talks, mostly about the ordinary people of his specialist period, and has a successful blog "about 1816". He is a volunteer at a local living history museum, stewarding historic houses, talking about history to visitors and contributing to the educational service. He comes from Liverpool and now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.