Description: Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past.
Brief description: BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Social History at Durham University and co-edited (with Adrian Green) Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 (Boydell Press, 2018).
Review Quotes: Subtle and satisfying....Essentially, this book sets out a new picture of how the polite generation gave birth to and raised the sensible generation.-- "JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES"