A study of the intellectual life of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the 20th century. It explores how they responded to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, and more.

An extensively revised edition of a classic of modern historiography.

Examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on research, this work places Scotland within an international context. It talks about Scotland's history, from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality.

Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society.

This volume, in a series which deals with significant historical issues and aims to explain the current state of our knowledge in the area, discusses the history and development of British imperialism and the Muslim Empires in Asia and the world crisis from 1780 to 1830.

In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of a new form of class society in Victorian England, which differed radically from early modern society.