The contributors to this volume examine the history of the British middle classes from the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Geography, economy and occupation

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth centu

This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which