
diversity 411–13;
eighteenth century 400–8;
from eighteenth century 409–11;
industrial concentration and 409;
Ireland 400, 418–19;
locating 406–7;
London 419–24;
pattern 402;
Scotland 19, 400, 415–18, 419;
Wales 400, 401, 413–15, 419
Ure, Andrew 113, 325, 334
usury 209, 219
utilitarianism 296–7
Utrecht Treaty (1713) 162
vaccination 38, 39
vagrants and vagrancy 327–5
values 4;
cultural 5, 254, 359–60;
social 352–3
variable capital 185
Vermuyden, Cornelius 11, 51
Vicars, Dr Rayliegh 444
Vidler, John 144
villages:
case studies 369–76, 380–6;
closed 375–79;
economy 379–81;
industrial 317–18, 375;
open 375–79;
planned 387, 389
Vindication of the Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft) 358
Vivian family 121
Voltaire 269
voluntary schools 216–17
Von Tunzelmann, G.N. 83, 103–4
Wade, General George 133, 138
wages 13–14, 42–3, 47, 111;
agricultural 67, 70;
emergence 312–14;
metallurgy industries 120, 121, 122–3, 124;
real 315–16;
textiles 86, 117, 119–20;
women 321–3, 358
wages (wage-earners) 311;
classification of wage-earners 323–8;
conclusions 339;
emergence of wages 312–14;
living standards 314–21;
unions and 328–39;
women’s 321–3
Wales:
agriculture 20–1, 50–2, 58–9, 63, 267–8, 389–91;
aristocracy 21, 267–8;
capital banking 189–91, 196;
culture 445–7;
economy 19–22, 28;
education 215–17;
electorate 19, 22;
enclosure 63;
exports 173;
gentry 21, 268, 281–2, 389, 446;
geography 10–11, 12, 13, 23;
industrialization 190–1, 282;
industry 22, 76–7, 93, 95–6;
landownership 58–9, 267–8, 280–2;
language 360, 361–2;
middle class 21, 298, 302–4, 389–90;
migration 44, 420;
national perspective 254–5;
overseas trade 165–8;
politics 15–16, 19, 22–3, 25;
population 31–5, 37, 40, 44, 47, 400–1, 415;
professions 298, 302–4;
racial differentiation 360–1;
services 215–16;
textiles 22, 86, 89, 118;
transport 136, 137;
urban growth 400, 401, 413–15, 419;
see also individual towns
Walpole, Horace 272
Walpole, Sir Robert 15, 24, 163
Walvin, James 364
war 262;
financing 198, 223;
French see France;
overseas trade and 162–4, 178;
Seven Years War 66, 95, 164
waste land 50–1, 60, 61, 62
water meadows 55–6
water power 102–4
water supply 424, 425, 441
waterways 129–32
Watt, James 80–1, 86, 102–3, 228–9
wealth 207, 251;
class and 355–6;
middle class 289, 295, 302, 304;
and paternalism 347, 348
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith) 68, 222
weaving 82–4, 86, 88–92, 118–19
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney 315;
view of unionism 328–9, 337, 338
Webb, Jonas 56
Weber, Max 210, 212
Webster, Alexander 31
Wedgwood, Josiah 80, 132, 220
Weeks, J. 145
wells 414
Wesley, John 126
Westrope, Mr T. 384
wheat 6;
output 53, 68;
prices 65–6, 316, 317
Whig gentry 379
Whitbread, Samuel 213, 374
Whitehouse, William 122
Whitney, Eli 84, 92
Whitworth, Robert 156
wholesale markets 219, 220, 420
Wicherley, Richard 371
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