Revolution, a History of England, Volume 4

by Peter Ackroyd

  Court, W. H. B.: The Rise of the Midland Industries, 1600–1838 (Oxford, 1953)

  Crafts, N. F. R.: British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1985)

  Daunton, M. J.: Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700–1850 (Oxford, 1995)

  Dickinson, H. W.: James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer (Cambridge, 1935)

  Dickson, P. G. M.: The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688–1756 (London, 1967)

  Fitton, R. S. and Wadsworth, A. P.: The Strutts and the Arkwrights 1758–1830 (Matlock, 2012)

  Flinn, M. W.: Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry (Edinburgh, 1962)

  ——— The Origins of the Industrial Revolution (London, 1966)

  ——— The Industrial Revolution, The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 2 (Oxford, 1984)

  Floud, R.: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2014)

  Floud, R. and McCloskey, D. N.: The Economic History of Britain Since 1700 (Cambridge, 1981)

  Hammond, J. L. and Hammond, B. B.: The Rise of Modern Industry (London, 1937)

  Harris, J. R.: The British Iron Industry, 1700–1850 (Basingstoke, 1988)

  Hartwell, R. M.: The Industrial Revolution in England (London, 1965)

  ——— The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England (London, 1967)

  ——— The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth (London, 1971)

  Hartwell, R. M. (ed.): The Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1970)

  Holderness, B. A.: Pre-industrial England: Economy and Society, 1500–1750 (London, 1976)

  Hopkins, E.: The Rise of the Manufacturing Town: Birmingham and the Industrial Revolution (Stroud, 1998)

  King, S. and Timmins, G.: Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 2001)

  Kussmaul, A.: A General View of the Rural Economy of England 1538–1840 (Cambridge, 1990)

  MacLeod, C.: Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660–1800 (Cambridge, 1988)

  Mantoux, P.: The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England (Chicago, 1983)

  Mathias, P.: The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1914 (London, 1969)

  ——— The Transformation of England: Essays in the Economic and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2011)

  McKendrick, N. and Plumb, J. H.: The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1983)

  Minchinton, W. E.: The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1969)

  Moffit, L. W.: England on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution: A Study of Economic and Social Conditions from 1740–1760, with Special Reference to Lancashire (London, 1925)

  Mokyr, J.: The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (New York, 1990)

  ——— The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700–1850 (London, 2011)

  Mui, Hoh-Cheung and Mui, L. H.: Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (Kingston, Ont., 1989)

  O’Brien, P. and Quinault, R. E.: The Industrial Revolution and British Society (Cambridge, 1993)

  Osborne, J. W.: The Silent Revolution: The Industrial Revolution in England as a Source of Cultural Change (New York, 1970)

  Plumb, J. H.: The Commercialisation of Leisure in Eighteenth-Century England (Reading, 1973)

  Quickenden, K., Baggott, S. and Dick, M.: Matthew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment (Farnham, 2013)

  Radcliffe, W.: Origin of the New System of Manufacture Commonly Called Power-Loom Weaving (Clifton, 1974)

  Randall, A.: Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809 (Cambridge, 1991)

  Reilly, R.: Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795 (London, 1992)

  Richards, J. M. and De Maré, E. S.: The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings (London, 1958)

  Rule, J.: The Vital Century: England’s Developing Economy 1714–1815 (London, 1992)

  Toynbee, A.: The Industrial Revolution (Boston, 1956)

  Unwin, G. and Hulme, A.: Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple (Manchester, 1924)

  Weatherill, L.: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660–1760 (London and New Haven, 1996)

  Wilson, R. G.: Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700–1830 (Manchester, 1971)

  Wrigley, E. A.: Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988)

  ——— Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 2010)

  POLITICAL HISTORY

  Black, J.: Pitt the Elder (Cambridge, 1992)

  ——— The Politics of Britain, 1688–1800 (Manchester, 1993)

  Brewer, J.: Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, 1976)

  Browning, R.: The Duke of Newcastle (New Haven, 1975)

  Butterfield, H.: George III, Lord North, and the People, 1779–80 (London, 1949)

  Cannon, J.: The Fox–North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution, 1782–4 (Cambridge, 1969)

  ——— The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England (London, 1981)

  Colley, L.: In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714–1760 (Cambridge, 1982)

  Derry, J. W.: Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation (Basingstoke, 1990)

  Dickinson, H. T.: The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Basingstoke, 1994)

  Dickinson, H. T.: Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (London, 1973)

  Ehrman, J.: The Younger Pitt (London, 1969–1996)

  Field, O.: The Kit-Cat Club (London, 2009)

  Goodwin, A.: The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution (London, 1979)

  Gray, D.: Spencer Perceval, the Evangelical Prime Minister, 1762–1812 (Manchester, 1963)

  Harris, T.: Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660–1715 (London, 1993)

  Hill, B. W.: British Parliamentary Parties, 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act (London, 1985)

  ——— The Growth of Parliamentary Parties, 1689–1742 (London, 1976)

  Holmes, Geoffrey S.: British Politics in the Age of Anne (London, 1967)

  Jones, C.: Britain in the First Age of Party, 1680–1750: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Holmes (London, 1987)

  Kenyon, J. P.: Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party, 1689–1720 (Cambridge, 1977)

  Lawson, P.: George Grenville: A Political Life (Oxford, 1984)

  Linklater, A.: Why Spencer Perceval had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister (London, 2012)

  Marshall, A.: The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660–1702 (Manchester, 1999)

  Middleton, R.: The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years’ War 1757–1762 (Cambridge, 1985)

  Namier, L. B.: The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (London, 1957)

  O’Gorman, F.: The Whig Party and the French Revolution (London, 1967)

  ——— Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy (London, 1973)

  ——— The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs, 1760–82 (London, 1975)

  ——— Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England 1734–1832 (Oxford, 1989)

  Owen, J. B.: The Rise of the Pelhams (London, 1957)

  Pearce, E.: The Great Man: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister (London, 2007)

  Perry, K.: British Politics and the American Revolution (Basingstoke, 1990)

  Peters, M.: Pitt and Popularity: The Patriot Minister and London Opinion during the Seven Years’ War (O
xford, 1980)

  Pincus, S. C. A.: 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, 2009)

  Plumb, J. H.: Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman (London, 1956)

  Reilly, R.: William Pitt the Younger (New York, 1979)

  Rogers, N.: Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt (Oxford, 1989)

  Rudé, G. F. E.: Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study (London, 1983)

  Tomkins, S.: William Wilberforce: A Biography (Oxford, 2007)

  Western, J. R.: Monarchy and Revolution: The English State in the 1680s (London, 1985)

  Williams, E. N. (ed.): The Eighteenth-Century Constitution, 1688–1815: Documents and Commentary (Cambridge, 1960)

  Index

  Aberdeen, Charles ref1

  Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of ref1

  Aboukir Bay, battle of (1798) ref1

  Adams, Dacre ref1

  Adams, John ref1

  Addington, Henry (1st viscount Sidmouth) ref1, ref2

  Addison, Joseph: on trade and traders ref1; on London ref1; political writings ref1; co-edits Spectator ref1, ref2; opposes Scriblerus ref1; club membership ref1; describes prostitute ref1; on theatregoers ref1

  Adventurer (journal) ref1

  advertisements ref1

  agriculture: improvements and social effects ref1, ref2; farm sizes increase ref1

  Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of (1748) ref1, ref2

  Albemarle, Arnold Joosty van, 1st earl of ref1

  Albion Mill, London ref1

  alehouses ref1

  Alexander I, tsar of Russia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Alison, Archibald: Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste ref1

  Almack’s club ref1

  America see North America

  American War of Independence (1775–83) ref1, ref2

  Amiens, treaty of (1802) ref1

  ‘Ancients’ and ‘Moderns’ dispute ref1, ref2

  Anderson, Adam: An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce ref1

  Anglican church see Church, the

  Anne, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: claim to throne ref1, ref2, ref3; Protestantism ref1; touches for king’s evil ref1; dependence on duchess of Marlborough ref1; accession ref1; appearance and character ref1; religious convictions ref1; on Marlborough’s Blenheim victory ref1; political impartiality ref1; and union with Scotland ref1; declines Marlborough’s request to be appointed captain-general for life ref1; and battle of Malplaquet ref1; bids for peace ref1; dismisses Marlborough ref1; creates new peers (1712) ref1; succession question ref1; death and succession ref1, ref2

  Annual Register ref1, ref2

  Anson, Admiral George, baron ref1

  Antwerp ref1

  Arbuthnot, John ref1, ref2

  architecture ref1

  aristocracy: numbers under William III ref1

  Arkwright, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  army (standing): resisted ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  art and artists ref1, ref2

  Ashmole, Elias ref1

  Ashworth, Henry and Edward ref1

  asiento (slaving treaty) ref1

  Aspern, battle of (1809) ref1

  assembly rooms ref1

  Association of the Friends of the People ref1

  Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers ref1

  asylums (charity) ref1

  Atterbury, Francis, bishop of Rochester ref1, ref2

  Aubrey, John ref1

  Auckland, William Eden, 1st baron ref1

  Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales (George III’s mother) ref1, ref2

  Austerlitz, battle of (1805) ref1

  Austria: alliance with England in War of Spanish Succession ref1; in coalitions against France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and post-Napoleon settlement ref1

  Austrian Succession, War of the (1739–48) ref1, ref2

  Ayton, Richard: Voyage round Great Britain ref1

  Babbage, Charles ref1

  Bailen, battle of (1808) ref1

  Bailey, Nathan: An Universal Etymological Dictionary ref1

  Bakewell, Robert ref1, ref2

  balloons and ballooning ref1

  balls (dancing) ref1

  Bank of England: established ref1, ref2; issues paper notes ref1, ref2; investments in ref1

  banks and banking ref1

  Bantry Bay, Ireland ref1

  Baptists ref1

  Barber, Stephen ref1

  Barnard, Sir John: A Present for an Apprentice ref1

  Bath (city) ref1

  Beachy Head, battle of (1690) ref1

  Beckford, William: Fragments of an English Tour ref1

  Bedlam ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Beethoven, Ludwig van ref1

  Behn, Aphra ref1

  Bell, Andrew ref1

  Bellingham, John ref1

  Bengal ref1

  Bentley, Thomas ref1

  Berlin Decrees (1806) ref1

  Bessborough, Henrietta Frances, countess of ref1

  Bickerstaff, Isaac see Steele, Richard

  Bill (earlier Declaration) of Rights (1689) ref1

  Birmingham ref1, ref2

  Birmingham Mail ref1

  Bissett, William: The Modern Fanatic ref1

  Blair, Robert: The Grave ref1

  Blake, William: on change ref1; and conversation ref1; on London ref1; enters Royal Academy Schools ref1; in Gordon riots ref1; on human effect of industrial revolution ref1; welcomes French Revolution ref1; painting style ref1; and French invasion threat ref1; on poetic diction ref1; ‘Jerusalem’ ref1

  Blanqui, Auguste ref1

  Blenheim, battle of (1704) ref1, ref2

  Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire ref1

  Blücher, Field Marshal Gebbard Leberecht von ref1

  Board of Agriculture: established ref1

  Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy ref1

  Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st viscount ref1

  Bolton, Lancashire: disaffection ref1

  Booth, Charles ref1

  Borodino, battle of (1812) ref1

  Boston Gazette ref1

  Boston, Mass.: reaction to Stamp Act ref1; ‘Massacre’ (1770) ref1; ‘Tea Party’ ref1

  Boston Port Act (1774) ref1

  Boswell, James ref1, ref2, ref3

  Boulton & Fothergill (manufacturers) ref1

  Boulton, Matthew ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Boydell, John ref1

  Boyle, Sir Robert ref1

  Boyne, battle of the (1690) ref1

  bread riots ref1, ref2

  brewers and breweries ref1

  Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of ref1

  Brissot, Jacques Pierre ref1

  Britain see England

  British Apollo, The (periodical) ref1

  British Empire: re-creation ref1; and worldwide trading posts ref1; government and control ref1

  British Magazine ref1

  British Museum: opened (1759) ref1

  Britton, John ref1

  Britton, Thomas ref1

  Brooks’s club, London ref1

  Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, duke of ref1

  Bunker Hill, battle of (1775) ref1

  Buonaparte, Joseph (king of Spain and of Naples) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Buonaparte, Louis (king of Holland) ref1

  Buonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon I (Buonaparte), emperor

  Burgoyne, General John ref1

  Burke, Edmund: on trade and war ref1; on repeal of Stamp Act ref1; on measures against America ref1; on Charles James Fox ref1; impeaches Warren Hastings ref1; on George III’s illness ref1; on French Revolution ref1; Thomas Paine criticizes ref1, ref2; denounced by constitutional societies ref1; on national continuity ref1; Reflections on the Revolution in France ref1

  Burke, Richard ref1

  Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury ref1

  Burney, Fanny (Mme d�
�Arblay) ref1

  Bussy, François de ref1

  Bute, John Stuart, 3rd earl of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Byng, Admiral John ref1

  Byng, John (diarist) ref1, ref2

  Cade, Jack ref1

  Calvinism ref1

  Cambridge Intelligencer ref1

  Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st earl ref1

  Camden, William ref1

  Camperdown, battle of (1797) ref1

  Canada: British war against French in ref1, ref2; France loses ref1; Britain retains ref1

  canals ref1, ref2

  Canning, George ref1, ref2

  Cape St Vincent, battle of (1797) ref1

  Carlyle, Thomas ref1

  Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II: supports husband in banishment ref1; rebukes Robert Walpole for coarseness ref1; political astuteness ref1; qualities ref1; distaste for son Frederick ref1

  Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales ref1

  Carteret, John, 2nd baron (later earl Granville) ref1, ref2, ref3

  cartoons and caricatures ref1

  Castaing, John ref1

  Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, viscount ref1, ref2, ref3

  Catholic Relief Bill (1791) ref1

  Catholics: status in Ireland ref1; in Durham ref1; hostility to ref1; attacked in Gordon riots ref1; emancipation proposals ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Cavendish, Lord John ref1

  Cawdrey, Robert: A Table Alphabeticall ref1

  census (population) ref1

  Centlivre, Susanna: A Bold Stroke for a Wife (play) ref1

  Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ref1

  charities and voluntary societies ref1, ref2

  Charles, Archduke of Austria ref1

  Charles II, king of Spain ref1

  Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor ref1

  Chartism ref1

  Chatterton, Thomas: suicide ref1; Miscellanies ref1

  Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of: on accession of George I ref1; on Robert Walpole ref1; on return of Pitt the elder ref1; on Britain’s improving fortunes ref1; on Bute ref1; Characters ref1

  Cheyne, George: The English Malady ref1

  children: drinking ref1; labour ref1, ref2; mortality rates ref1

  china see pottery

  chronometer ref1

  Church, the (Anglican): and toleration of dissenting churches ref1; and land ref1; ethos ref1; and gentry ref1; and Act of Settlement ref1; and trial of Sacheverell ref1; George I and ref1; and Wesley and rise of Methodism ref1; on war with France ref1

  Cibber, Colley: on Vanbrugh’s plays ref1; Love Makes a Man ref1