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This series is regarded as one of the most comprehensive and readable histories of the progress and fall of the British Empire. It reads almost like a novel as Morris encapsulates her reader with the sights, sounds, and smells of the Empire. The series is divided into three books, in the following order:

# ''Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress''

# ''Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire''

# ''Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat''

2. [https://www.amazon.com/London-Labour-Poor-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140432418/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508823670&sr=1-1&keywords=mayhew+london+labour Henry Mayhew: ''London Labour and the London Poor''] – This four volume work by social theorist Henry Mayhew is full of rich, accurate accounts of what life was like for the "down and out" (the poor and working classes) in Victorian London. Mayhew interviewed everyone from small shop owners, to prostitutes, to pure-finders (those who collected dog poop for money). This groundbreaking look into the life of London's poorest was, and remains, one of the most important works on working-class culture ever published. Mayhew's work has also been annotated by Penguin Classics into a 512-page book as well.