Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England

Helen Pierce

Yale University Press

A study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England, which considers graphic satire as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism and debate.

The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15, ed. Craig Horner (Ashgate)

A transcription of the diary of Edmund Harrold, who was born in 1678 and seemingly lived and worked his whole life in Manchester as a barber and wigmaker, which offers an insight into the social, professional and private life of an impoverished inhabitant of Manchester during a time of economic and social change.