Court, W. H. B.: The Rise of the Midland Industries, 1600–1838 (Oxford, 1953)
Crafts, N. F. R.: British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1985)
Daunton, M. J.: Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700–1850 (Oxford, 1995)
Dickinson, H. W.: James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer (Cambridge, 1935)
Dickson, P. G. M.: The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688–1756 (London, 1967)
Fitton, R. S. and Wadsworth, A. P.: The Strutts and the Arkwrights 1758–1830 (Matlock, 2012)
Flinn, M. W.: Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry (Edinburgh, 1962)
——— The Origins of the Industrial Revolution (London, 1966)
——— The Industrial Revolution, The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 2 (Oxford, 1984)
Floud, R.: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2014)
Floud, R. and McCloskey, D. N.: The Economic History of Britain Since 1700 (Cambridge, 1981)
Hammond, J. L. and Hammond, B. B.: The Rise of Modern Industry (London, 1937)
Harris, J. R.: The British Iron Industry, 1700–1850 (Basingstoke, 1988)
Hartwell, R. M.: The Industrial Revolution in England (London, 1965)
——— The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England (London, 1967)
——— The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth (London, 1971)
Hartwell, R. M. (ed.): The Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1970)
Holderness, B. A.: Pre-industrial England: Economy and Society, 1500–1750 (London, 1976)
Hopkins, E.: The Rise of the Manufacturing Town: Birmingham and the Industrial Revolution (Stroud, 1998)
King, S. and Timmins, G.: Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 2001)
Kussmaul, A.: A General View of the Rural Economy of England 1538–1840 (Cambridge, 1990)
MacLeod, C.: Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800 (Cambridge, 1988)
Mantoux, P.: The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England (Chicago, 1983)
Mathias, P.: The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914 (London, 1969)
——— The Transformation of England: Essays in the Economic and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2011)
McKendrick, N. and Plumb, J. H.: The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1983)
Minchinton, W. E.: The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1969)
Moffit, L. W.: England on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution: A Study of Economic and Social Conditions from 1740–1760, with Special Reference to Lancashire (London, 1925)
Mokyr, J.: The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (New York, 1990)
——— The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700–1850 (London, 2011)
Mui, Hoh-Cheung and Mui, L. H.: Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (Kingston, Ont., 1989)
O’Brien, P. and Quinault, R. E.: The Industrial Revolution and British Society (Cambridge, 1993)
Osborne, J. W.: The Silent Revolution: The Industrial Revolution in England as a Source of Cultural Change (New York, 1970)
Plumb, J. H.: The Commercialisation of Leisure in Eighteenth-Century England (Reading, 1973)
Quickenden, K., Baggott, S. and Dick, M.: Matthew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment (Farnham, 2013)
Radcliffe, W.: Origin of the New System of Manufacture Commonly Called Power-Loom Weaving (Clifton, 1974)
Randall, A.: Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809 (Cambridge, 1991)
Reilly, R.: Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795 (London, 1992)
Richards, J. M. and De Maré, E. S.: The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings (London, 1958)
Rule, J.: The Vital Century: England’s Developing Economy 1714–1815 (London, 1992)
Toynbee, A.: The Industrial Revolution (Boston, 1956)
Unwin, G. and Hulme, A.: Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple (Manchester, 1924)
Weatherill, L.: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660–1760 (London and New Haven, 1996)
Wilson, R. G.: Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700–1830 (Manchester, 1971)
Wrigley, E. A.: Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988)
——— Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 2010)
POLITICAL HISTORY
Black, J.: Pitt the Elder (Cambridge, 1992)
——— The Politics of Britain, 1688–1800 (Manchester, 1993)
Brewer, J.: Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, 1976)
Browning, R.: The Duke of Newcastle (New Haven, 1975)
Butterfield, H.: George III, Lord North, and the People, 1779–80 (London, 1949)
Cannon, J.: The Fox–North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution, 1782–4 (Cambridge, 1969)
——— The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England (London, 1981)
Colley, L.: In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714–1760 (Cambridge, 1982)
Derry, J. W.: Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation (Basingstoke, 1990)
Dickinson, H. T.: The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Basingstoke, 1994)
Dickinson, H. T.: Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (London, 1973)
Ehrman, J.: The Younger Pitt (London, 1969–1996)
Field, O.: The Kit-Cat Club (London, 2009)
Goodwin, A.: The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution (London, 1979)
Gray, D.: Spencer Perceval, the Evangelical Prime Minister, 1762–1812 (Manchester, 1963)
Harris, T.: Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660–1715 (London, 1993)
Hill, B. W.: British Parliamentary Parties, 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act (London, 1985)
——— The Growth of Parliamentary Parties, 1689–1742 (London, 1976)
Holmes, Geoffrey S.: British Politics in the Age of Anne (London, 1967)
Jones, C.: Britain in the First Age of Party, 1680–1750: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Holmes (London, 1987)
Kenyon, J. P.: Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party, 1689–1720 (Cambridge, 1977)
Lawson, P.: George Grenville: A Political Life (Oxford, 1984)
Linklater, A.: Why Spencer Perceval had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister (London, 2012)
Marshall, A.: The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660–1702 (Manchester, 1999)
Middleton, R.: The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War 1757–1762 (Cambridge, 1985)
Namier, L. B.: The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (London, 1957)
O’Gorman, F.: The Whig Party and the French Revolution (London, 1967)
——— Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy (London, 1973)
——— The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs, 1760–82 (London, 1975)
——— Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England 1734–1832 (Oxford, 1989)
Owen, J. B.: The Rise of the Pelhams (London, 1957)
Pearce, E.: The Great Man: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister (London, 2007)
Perry, K.: British Politics and the American Revolution (Basingstoke, 1990)
Peters, M.: Pitt and Popularity: The Patriot Minister and London Opinion during the Seven Years’ War (O
xford, 1980)
Pincus, S. C. A.: 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, 2009)
Plumb, J. H.: Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman (London, 1956)
Reilly, R.: William Pitt the Younger (New York, 1979)
Rogers, N.: Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt (Oxford, 1989)
Rudé, G. F. E.: Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study (London, 1983)
Tomkins, S.: William Wilberforce: A Biography (Oxford, 2007)
Western, J. R.: Monarchy and Revolution: The English State in the 1680s (London, 1985)
Williams, E. N. (ed.): The Eighteenth-Century Constitution, 1688–1815: Documents and Commentary (Cambridge, 1960)
Index
Aberdeen, Charles ref1
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of ref1
Aboukir Bay, battle of (1798) ref1
Adams, Dacre ref1
Adams, John ref1
Addington, Henry (1st viscount Sidmouth) ref1, ref2
Addison, Joseph: on trade and traders ref1; on London ref1; political writings ref1; co-edits Spectator ref1, ref2; opposes Scriblerus ref1; club membership ref1; describes prostitute ref1; on theatregoers ref1
Adventurer (journal) ref1
advertisements ref1
agriculture: improvements and social effects ref1, ref2; farm sizes increase ref1
Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of (1748) ref1, ref2
Albemarle, Arnold Joosty van, 1st earl of ref1
Albion Mill, London ref1
alehouses ref1
Alexander I, tsar of Russia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Alison, Archibald: Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste ref1
Almack’s club ref1
America see North America
American War of Independence (1775–83) ref1, ref2
Amiens, treaty of (1802) ref1
‘Ancients’ and ‘Moderns’ dispute ref1, ref2
Anderson, Adam: An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce ref1
Anglican church see Church, the
Anne, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: claim to throne ref1, ref2, ref3; Protestantism ref1; touches for king’s evil ref1; dependence on duchess of Marlborough ref1; accession ref1; appearance and character ref1; religious convictions ref1; on Marlborough’s Blenheim victory ref1; political impartiality ref1; and union with Scotland ref1; declines Marlborough’s request to be appointed captain-general for life ref1; and battle of Malplaquet ref1; bids for peace ref1; dismisses Marlborough ref1; creates new peers (1712) ref1; succession question ref1; death and succession ref1, ref2
Annual Register ref1, ref2
Anson, Admiral George, baron ref1
Antwerp ref1
Arbuthnot, John ref1, ref2
architecture ref1
aristocracy: numbers under William III ref1
Arkwright, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
army (standing): resisted ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
art and artists ref1, ref2
Ashmole, Elias ref1
Ashworth, Henry and Edward ref1
asiento (slaving treaty) ref1
Aspern, battle of (1809) ref1
assembly rooms ref1
Association of the Friends of the People ref1
Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers ref1
asylums (charity) ref1
Atterbury, Francis, bishop of Rochester ref1, ref2
Aubrey, John ref1
Auckland, William Eden, 1st baron ref1
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales (George III’s mother) ref1, ref2
Austerlitz, battle of (1805) ref1
Austria: alliance with England in War of Spanish Succession ref1; in coalitions against France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and post-Napoleon settlement ref1
Austrian Succession, War of the (1739–48) ref1, ref2
Ayton, Richard: Voyage round Great Britain ref1
Babbage, Charles ref1
Bailen, battle of (1808) ref1
Bailey, Nathan: An Universal Etymological Dictionary ref1
Bakewell, Robert ref1, ref2
balloons and ballooning ref1
balls (dancing) ref1
Bank of England: established ref1, ref2; issues paper notes ref1, ref2; investments in ref1
banks and banking ref1
Bantry Bay, Ireland ref1
Baptists ref1
Barber, Stephen ref1
Barnard, Sir John: A Present for an Apprentice ref1
Bath (city) ref1
Beachy Head, battle of (1690) ref1
Beckford, William: Fragments of an English Tour ref1
Bedlam ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beethoven, Ludwig van ref1
Behn, Aphra ref1
Bell, Andrew ref1
Bellingham, John ref1
Bengal ref1
Bentley, Thomas ref1
Berlin Decrees (1806) ref1
Bessborough, Henrietta Frances, countess of ref1
Bickerstaff, Isaac see Steele, Richard
Bill (earlier Declaration) of Rights (1689) ref1
Birmingham ref1, ref2
Birmingham Mail ref1
Bissett, William: The Modern Fanatic ref1
Blair, Robert: The Grave ref1
Blake, William: on change ref1; and conversation ref1; on London ref1; enters Royal Academy Schools ref1; in Gordon riots ref1; on human effect of industrial revolution ref1; welcomes French Revolution ref1; painting style ref1; and French invasion threat ref1; on poetic diction ref1; ‘Jerusalem’ ref1
Blanqui, Auguste ref1
Blenheim, battle of (1704) ref1, ref2
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire ref1
Blücher, Field Marshal Gebbard Leberecht von ref1
Board of Agriculture: established ref1
Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy ref1
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st viscount ref1
Bolton, Lancashire: disaffection ref1
Booth, Charles ref1
Borodino, battle of (1812) ref1
Boston Gazette ref1
Boston, Mass.: reaction to Stamp Act ref1; ‘Massacre’ (1770) ref1; ‘Tea Party’ ref1
Boston Port Act (1774) ref1
Boswell, James ref1, ref2, ref3
Boulton & Fothergill (manufacturers) ref1
Boulton, Matthew ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Boydell, John ref1
Boyle, Sir Robert ref1
Boyne, battle of the (1690) ref1
bread riots ref1, ref2
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of ref1
Brissot, Jacques Pierre ref1
Britain see England
British Apollo, The (periodical) ref1
British Empire: re-creation ref1; and worldwide trading posts ref1; government and control ref1
British Magazine ref1
British Museum: opened (1759) ref1
Britton, John ref1
Britton, Thomas ref1
Brooks’s club, London ref1
Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, duke of ref1
Bunker Hill, battle of (1775) ref1
Buonaparte, Joseph (king of Spain and of Naples) ref1, ref2, ref3
Buonaparte, Louis (king of Holland) ref1
Buonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon I (Buonaparte), emperor
Burgoyne, General John ref1
Burke, Edmund: on trade and war ref1; on repeal of Stamp Act ref1; on measures against America ref1; on Charles James Fox ref1; impeaches Warren Hastings ref1; on George III’s illness ref1; on French Revolution ref1; Thomas Paine criticizes ref1, ref2; denounced by constitutional societies ref1; on national continuity ref1; Reflections on the Revolution in France ref1
Burke, Richard ref1
Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury ref1
Burney, Fanny (Mme d�
�Arblay) ref1
Bussy, François de ref1
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Byng, Admiral John ref1
Byng, John (diarist) ref1, ref2
Cade, Jack ref1
Calvinism ref1
Cambridge Intelligencer ref1
Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st earl ref1
Camden, William ref1
Camperdown, battle of (1797) ref1
Canada: British war against French in ref1, ref2; France loses ref1; Britain retains ref1
canals ref1, ref2
Canning, George ref1, ref2
Cape St Vincent, battle of (1797) ref1
Carlyle, Thomas ref1
Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II: supports husband in banishment ref1; rebukes Robert Walpole for coarseness ref1; political astuteness ref1; qualities ref1; distaste for son Frederick ref1
Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales ref1
Carteret, John, 2nd baron (later earl Granville) ref1, ref2, ref3
cartoons and caricatures ref1
Castaing, John ref1
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, viscount ref1, ref2, ref3
Catholic Relief Bill (1791) ref1
Catholics: status in Ireland ref1; in Durham ref1; hostility to ref1; attacked in Gordon riots ref1; emancipation proposals ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cavendish, Lord John ref1
Cawdrey, Robert: A Table Alphabeticall ref1
census (population) ref1
Centlivre, Susanna: A Bold Stroke for a Wife (play) ref1
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ref1
charities and voluntary societies ref1, ref2
Charles, Archduke of Austria ref1
Charles II, king of Spain ref1
Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor ref1
Chartism ref1
Chatterton, Thomas: suicide ref1; Miscellanies ref1
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of: on accession of George I ref1; on Robert Walpole ref1; on return of Pitt the elder ref1; on Britain’s improving fortunes ref1; on Bute ref1; Characters ref1
Cheyne, George: The English Malady ref1
children: drinking ref1; labour ref1, ref2; mortality rates ref1
china see pottery
chronometer ref1
Church, the (Anglican): and toleration of dissenting churches ref1; and land ref1; ethos ref1; and gentry ref1; and Act of Settlement ref1; and trial of Sacheverell ref1; George I and ref1; and Wesley and rise of Methodism ref1; on war with France ref1
Cibber, Colley: on Vanbrugh’s plays ref1; Love Makes a Man ref1