Holdsworth proves that historians should study the novels of Charles Dickens as source material about the workings of English law and legal institutions. He sho

Deals with the Professional Tradition of the historical development of English law as it influences the historians of Anglo-American law.

xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes

This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Bri