How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that p

How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that p

This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the w

This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding to confron

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