Industrialisation & Industrial History

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in...

Now widely recognized as a novelist and essayist, working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth first published as a poet. The three books collected...

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...

This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the...

This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authoriti...

Beginning with one of the crucial technological breakthroughs of Western history - the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg - The Histo...

George Elliot was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings as a pit boy in Englands north-east to become one of the bigge...

From Hope to Betrayal transports you to Rishton, a small Lancashire cotton town, in the years between the Great Wars. Inspired by true events, the ...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could suppor...