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9781136737817

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Unlike many books that collect together papers on a particular subject, this volume has coherence and has the advantage of being a good read. -Iain Smith, The Historical Association This is a welcome collection of essays that yields important insights into the history of the modern British state, the public, and the evolving use of statistical knowledge. -J.F. Mayer, University of Edinburgh

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Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published in Social History, Urban History and Journal of Victorian Culture. He is currently completing a book-length study entitled Time and the Social Body: Public Health and English Modernity, 1830-1914. Glen O'Hara is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Britain and the Sea since 1600 (2010), From Dreams to Disillusionment; Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain (2007), and the co-editor of The Modernisation of Britain? Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of 1964-1970 (2006).

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