This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth centu

The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and t

The contributors to this volume examine the history of the British middle classes from the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Geography, economy and occupation

This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which s