Books by Brian Lewis

Those giving evidence, individually or through their professional associations, included a broad cross-section of official, professional and bureaucratic Britain: police chiefs, policemen, magistrates, judges, lawyers and Home Office civil servants; prison governors, medical officers and probation officers;

This book seeks to enrich our understanding of middle-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution. It compares and contrasts three Lancashire milltowns and surrounding parishes in the early phase of textile industrialization-when the urbanizing process was at its most rapid and dysfunctional, and class relations were most fraught.

A fully contextualized, critical biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. Intended for a broad academic, student and popular readership. -- .