The Institute of Historical Research (UK) this week offers up a double-book review by Jan Golinski from the University of New Hampshire. The books in question are Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820, by Peter M. Hones, and The Derby Philosophers: Science and CUlture in British Urban Society, by Paul Elliott.
Click here for the review (external link).