This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough

This book surveys the rise and decline of English watchmaking in Clerkenwell, Prescot, Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham, filling a gap in the historiography

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primar

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Repo