A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV

LibriVox recording of A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV by Justin McCarthy. Read in English by Pamela Nagami The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves in Jamaica. Then in 1867, the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, takes his celebrated "leap in the dark" with the passage of the most comprehensive expansion of manhood suffrage in British history. The Fenian movement agitates unsuccessfully for Irish independence.