The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise.

The political potential of millenarian religion has long exercised the interests...

The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early ...

This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westmins...

Without a means of crediting and debiting accounts worldwide and the non-physica...

This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood t...

On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a pe...

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught wor...

This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westmins...

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the insurance industry has cast a safet...

At the end of the twentieth century, Britain was a consumer society.

Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the ...