Book description
In over 300 well laid out pages, with plenty of clear illustrations, The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Social History captures the full flavour of everyday life in Britain, from earliest times to the present century, and encapsulates it in a series of three thousand richly informative references to the objects, institutions, places and events which have created its social fabric.
Covering everything from Ale and Almshouses, Banks, Baptists, Beadles and Building Societies to Qhisky, Zip-fasteners and Zoos, The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Social History throws fresh light on the vivid tapestry of the past, without neglecting the development of those features of modern life – the aeroplane, the sewing machine, the vacuum cleaner and many more – which we take so much for granted today.
