This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in

This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in

Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns,

This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present