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Hace 4 días · Discussing levels of drunkenness across 500 years, this section emphasises the 19th century as marking the ‘break’ in earlier drinking behaviours and a reduction in drinking levels in England. Jennings cites the falling rate of criminal proceedings nationally as a proof of this decline, carefully matching these statistics to other measures such as consumption trends.
Hace 5 días · Methodism, 18th-century movement founded by John Wesley that sought to reform the Church of England from within. The movement, however, became separate from its parent body and developed into an autonomous church. The World Methodist Council comprises more than 40.5 million people in 138 countries.
Hace 3 días · Well into the 18th century, the favored fuel was wood. This was gradually replaced by coal shipped from mines near the coasts of northern England. As taxes were reduced, this became more affordable, so that by the early 19th century it cost about 40 per cent less than it had a 100 years earlier.
15 de may. de 2024 · In addition, this module addresses the emergence of literature as a modern form of culture, which can be studied best in eighteenth-century England. The first copyright law (1710), a high rate of literacy, a booming consumer market, a precocious periodical industry, and entrepreneurial publishing concentrated in London led to the development of a new kind of author--the independent writer.
Hace 6 días · This startling incident, sandwiched between a quotation from an 18th-century jest book about fork being a ‘spoon with slits in it’, and a Huguenot commentary on the English penchant for belching, gives an excellent snapshot of Thomas’s lively, engaging and perceptive book on the topic of civility in early modern England.
Hace 1 día · For a list of wars before the Acts of Union 1707 please see List of wars involving England & List of wars involving Scotland. To see wars that have been fought on the United Kingdom mainland, see the list of wars in Great Britain. Historically, the United Kingdom relied most heavily on the Royal Navy and maintained relatively small land forces.
Hace 5 días · Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England. Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781783273287; 222pp.; Price: £19.99. It has become commonplace for historians to refer to 18th-century England’s ‘consumer revolution’. Empire, international trade and later industrialisation brought goods to English homes in ever greater numbers and ...
