-- Shakespeare's England II -- The England of Charles and Cromwell -- Restoration England -- Defoe's England -- Dr. Johnson's England I (1740-1780) -- Dr. Johnson's England II -- Dr. Johnson's England III -- Scotland at the beginning and at the end of the Eighteenth Century. Scotland at the time of the union of 1701 ; Scotland at the end of the Eighteenth Century -- Cobbett's England (1793-1832) -- Cobbett's England II -- Between the two reform bills (1832-1867) -- The second half of the Victorian Era (1865-1901).

This work has long been recognized as the truest possible picture of the daily lives of ordinary people from Chaucer's day, when England first became a nation, to the reign of Queen Victoria.