the ‘Family and Business in North-west England, 1760-1820’ project website
http://www.northwestfamilybusiness.arts ... Intro.aspxThis project aims to provide a novel analysis of small family firms by exploring their business operation in terms of internal family dynamics and questioning the extent to which family members were unified in their objectives. It is based on a regional study of ‘lower-middling’ families and their businesses between 1760 and 1820 in north-west English towns which experienced particularly marked economic and demographic growth in these decades. Small family businesses proliferated here at an especially rapid rate: both benefiting from, and helping to promote urban economic transformation.