Peter Laslett

The Culture of the English People

Study from the Iron Age to the Industrial era

Published August 31 1995

The Dictionary of National Biography

Published January 1 1994

Europe's Happy Families?

Peter Laslett discusses how the Continent's 'happy families' have changed dramatically since the War.

Published March 1 1992

Masham of Otes - The Rise and Fall of an English Family

Published August 31 1991

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.