Auteur: Brian Cowan

The study of mechanics plays a central role in physics for a whole variety of reasons. It was one of the earliest of the quantitative sciences, and had immediate practical applications. These ranged …

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption …

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex proce …

The book discusses the ‘state trial’ as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict – a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials provided …

The book discusses the ‘state trial’ as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict – a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.State trials provided …

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and st …

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and st …