Illustrated English Social History. Vol.3: the Eighteenth Century – G. M. Trevelyan

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Illustrated English Social History. Vol.3: The Eighteenth Century by G. M. Trevelyan offers an in-depth exploration of 18th-century England, capturing the social, cultural, and political shifts that defined the era.

This is the book in which Trevelyan famously said that social history was ‘history with the politics left out’.

He was much criticised for this, particularly by Marxists, who took the view that the political and the social were inextricably entwined, indeed that the politics was but a pale reflection of social and economic developments; but it is Trevelyan, not Marx, who has stood the test of time. Anyone wanting to know how medieval England differed from the modern version would do well to start with this introduction.