This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age to the eighteenth century.

This collection of essays is intended to contribute to the debate on the nature and extent of early-modern puritanism. It highlights several important aspects o

A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and