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...communities with various forms of generosity. From there he crossed into Germany and, while he was eager for peace rather than for war, he trained the soldiers as if war were imminent, instilling into them the lessons of his own endurance; and he himself supervised the military life among the maniples,Footnote 34 cheerfully eating camp fare out of doors – bacon fat,...

...community (living far from its workforce). ‘Domesticity’, in this model, was a luxury many could not afford. [The picture shows a father, mother and child relaxing together in a opulent looking room.] Figure 2 François-Hubert Drouiais, Family Portrait, 1756. Samuel H. Kress Collection/National Gallery of Art, USA. There was also now a rapidly increasing number of...

...communally consumed text must have taken on the flavour of its surroundings. The novelist Charlotte M Yonge recalled that her family were opposed to circulating libraries because the books were ‘very dirty, very smoky, and with remarks plentifully pencilled on the margins’. The Yonges chose instead to become members of a local book club and Charlotte notes how...

...communities while Jack Simmons, H.J. Dyos and Asa Briggs developed further sub-fields or disciplines, including transport history and urban history. They were all united by a tradition of examining the environment around them and interpreting it as material evidence of the past. In the words of Asa Briggs: ‘There is no substitute for knowing a city: reading about it is...