Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford

"'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"

• 1. Prints as history and the history of prints; 2. Conflagration! - the buming of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791; 3. Educated dustmen - dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in regency and early Victorian Britain; 4. Coming through the cottage door - work, leisure, family, and gender in artisan interiors; 5. Did she jump or was she pushed? - narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London