The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by no

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates t

This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough

Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victo