Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns,

This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society and to the operation and development of commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth

The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, so

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the ess

In this fundamental reassessment of women's experience of work in eighteenth-century England, Bridget Hill examines how and to what extent industrialization imp