Brian Maidment is Professor of English at the University of Salford

• 1. Prints as history and the history of prints; 2. Conflagration! - the buming of the Albion Mill, Southwark, in 1791; 3. Educated dustmen - dirt and disruption in the pursuit of knowledge in regency and early Victorian Britain; 4. Coming through the cottage door - work, leisure, family, and gender in artisan interiors; 5. Did she jump or was she pushed? - narratives of social responsibility and suicide in mid-Victorian London

"'a concise and insightful guide into the complex issues involved in decoding forms of graphic imagery... many interesting insights and original insights [and] real skill in analysing the particular' Art History; 'this careful, thoughtful and highly stimulating study of prints as history.' Asa Briggs, Literature and History"