The Making Of Britain: The Age Of Revolution Age Of Revolution Making Of Britain (television Program)

## Preface This volume accompanies the fourth series of the London Weekend! Channel Four study of British history, The Making of Britain. I should like to thank those at London Weekend Television involved in the production of the series, Jane Hewland and, in particular, Trevor Phillips, for the help they have given me in shaping this book. My thanks are due also to the contributors whose interest and commitment to this series has made my task very much easier and also very pleasurable. Several other scholars have generously shared their interpretations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with me and I should like to thank Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 The Echo of the Tumbril....Pages 9-22 A Question of Machinery....Pages 23-36 From Retribution to Reform....Pages 37-48 The New Babylons....Pages 49-62 The Working Classroom....Pages 63-74 ‘Domestic Harmony, Public Virtue’....Pages 75-88 The Victorian State: Order or Liberty?....Pages 89-101 A Union without Unity....Pages 103-115 The View from the Colonies....Pages 117-130 A Week at the Seaside....Pages 131-143 The Leap in the Dark....Pages 145-157 The Invention of the Past....Pages 159-171 Back Matter....Pages 173-196 Edited By Lesley M. Smith. Accompanies The London Weekend/channel Four Study The Making Of Britain. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [173]-186.