Based on the author's series of television programmes, this social history of Britain up to the 1970s explores the impact of motorized transport – whether motor cars, tanks or aircraft – on how and where people lived; the development of mass production industries; and on leisure pursuits and holidays. At the same time, Perkin traces the political and economic decline of Britain as a world power and its 'moral rise as the leading pioneer of the welfare state'. First published in 1976.

Covering the centuries between Magna Carta and the English Revolution, and connecting local and national history, Rollison's social and political study focuses on Cirencester, a town that made significant interventions in national constitutional development.

Examining ‘unofficial justice as visited upon malefactors by the collective actions of private citizens’, Stephen Banks gives a scholarly account of public shaming rituals, or ‘rough music’, and the punishments imposed for crimes such as wife-beating or informing.