Albion's People

This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class `middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime punishment and protest. The book which is as rich and varied as the age it explores ends with an assessment of continuity and change across the century.