Begins with an assessment of the literacy and the types of reading undertaken by the British working class from 1790-1848. Also presents a look at the challenge this literacy presented for the upper classes.
R. K. Webb Book order (chronological)



Harriet Martineau. a Radical Victorian
- 408 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Modern England
- 736 pages
- 26 hours of reading
18th century to the present. Professor Robert Kiefer Webb was an eminent scholar of British history; his particular interest was in the reforms of the Unitarian religious movement.