Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discre

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity a

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England wa

In recent years, social and legal historians have called into question the degree to which the labour that fuelled and sustained industrialization in England wa

The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes, as the lower classes rebelled against the state bias towards t