The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and pr

A number of changes in the English economy during the eighteenth century marked the inception of the modern industrialised world. Whether for the historian seek

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and pr

First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the ass