On account of its remarkable reach as well as its variety of schemes and features, migration in the Victorian era is a paramount chapter of the history of world

This book focuses on the departure of Britain’s 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Start

British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877 examines the literature of Victorian settler emigration in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, arguing t

This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as e

Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth betw