New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the govern

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during the long

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing pr

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disprove