This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. F

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disprove

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an