This history of England in the 18th century is not a chronological narrative of ministries and wars, but a history of the development of English society; the mi

Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parlia

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enligh