The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England is the most comprehensive and up-to-date attempt yet to synthesize the current state of our knowledge of the s

An introductory text on economic development during Britain's Industrial Revolution. It considers the significance and scale of changes and provides a concise o

This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it

An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller comm