Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a co...
Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a co...
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. Jo...
Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 yea...
In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred...
What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in t...
This is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triu...
What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in t...