First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and free

This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform mo

In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with