Some Recent Research Reading – Late Victorian & Edwardian

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Over the last few months, I've focused my research reading a little more onto the late Victorian and Edwardian periods in English history.

First, I highly recommend King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild; it's gripping from end to end, as well as informative about events often overlooked or skimmed over by historians, not only the atrocities that were perpetrated in the Congo, but the worldwide efforts to protest and prevent...