Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience by Alan Tomlinson

Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience by Alan Tomlinson

This volume, first published in 1990, commemorates one of the most notable economic historians of his age. Professor W.H. Chaloner taught in the History Department of the University of Manchester from 1945 to 1981. He preferred the article to the book as the most appropriate vehicle of publishing the results of his research. From 1938 to 1983 he wrote over 120 articles and prefaces, most of which appeared in historical journals and in the transactions of learned societies. These essays collected here cover a long period of time, from the Industrial Revolution to problems of the inter-war years in the twentieth century. They deal with a very wide range of topics, for Professor Chaloner was an authority on business, urban, transport, social and agricultural history.

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies, Sport and Leisure Cultures at the University of Brighton and Head of Chelsea School Research Centre. He has written more than 100 articles and chapters and was editor of Leisure Studies and of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. He has
edited and authored more than twenty volumes, including Sport and Leisure Cultures (2005), The Game's Up: Essays in the cultural analysis of sport, leisure and popular culture (1999), and Understanding Sport: An introduction to the cultural and sociological analysis of sport (1999).