Darwinism’s Generations: The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (Oxford, 2025).

For more information, see here.

Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City. The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914 (Routledge, 2019).

For more information, see here.

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction offers a brief introduction to the Victorians in all their richness and contradictions. Organised around a series of key questions. Why do the Victorians still have such a presence in contemporary culture? Was there a meaningful ‘Victorian period’, and if so, when was it? Who were the (eminent) Victorians? Was there such a thing as ‘Victorianism’? How global was Victorian society and culture? All tackled in 35,000 words.

The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain. The End of the ‘Taxes on Knowledge’, 1849-1869 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). For more details see here.

The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, edited by Martin Hewitt and Robert Poole (Sutton Publications 2000). For more details see here.

The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City. Manchester 1832-1867 (Scolar Press, 1996). For more details see here.