This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site

The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in every

This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning

This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of

Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.