Henry Home - better known by his judicial title Lord Kames - was an important figure in enlightenment Scotland. Kames published many books and essays across a variety of fields of knowledge. A substantial number of his publications related to his vocation as an advocate, and later a judge, in...

The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and Wales. An estimate made of the bar iron production in England shows two periods when production grew rapidly, 1540-1620 and 1785-1810. Both of these were related to the adoption of new technology - the finery forge in the...