From the Victorian metropolis of London to the bucolic traditions of 18th-century Scotland, the Folio Society publishes a beautiful collection of British and Irish social and cultural history books. Each book includes beautiful illustrations or carefully researched photographs. See below for the full list of Folio British and Irish Social and Cultural History books.
An irresistible tour de force, Stella Tillyard’s award-winning biography of the four great-grand-daughters of Charles II – Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox – has produced a history of the Georgian period as exciting as any novel.
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In this book, the historian Graham Stewart examines the history of Britain as presented through 100 seminal documents, from the 8th-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the new British Citizenship test. These are the documents which defined their own eras, and which continue to resonate today.
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Often called the golden age of English culture, the Elizabethan age saw an unprecedented explosion of creativity in the arts and commerce. In this rich portrait of the time, Rowse examines English society under Elizabeth and the lasting influence of the era, still resonating today.
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Flora Thompson's beautifully detailed chronicle of country life at the close of the 19th century is at once an exceptional piece of social history and a magical elegy to a vanished world.
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Queen Victoria was 39 when her daughter Vicky left home as the bride of Prince Frederick of Prussia. Edited by Andrew Roberts for The Folio Society, this edition of their extraordinary correspondence provides an unparalleled insight into the lives and times of two queens.
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They were giants whose works still dominate the British landscape; self-made men who became the architects of the industrial revolution. This single volume edition brings together the exceptional individuals of an age when Britain was 'the workshop of the world'.
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The most fascinating work of oral and documentary history ever written about Victorian London, and an influence on many writers, most notably Dickens.
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One of the most intriguing history books of the past 50 years, Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic describes the relationship between the occult and Christianity in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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A marvellous, kaleidoscopic social history of London during the 1660s, from Pepys to the Great Fire. Introduced by Jenny Uglow.
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Rural Rides is a classic portrait of rural life from one of the remarkable characters of the 19th century: William Cobbett, a noted journalist, farmer and fiery voice calling for reform. Praised by writers from Matthew Arnold to A. J. P. Taylor, his account of his journeys around southern England has never been out of print since it was first published in 1830.
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