Features Crafting a Model Napoleonic Coach 143 Hints about Dress and Turnout 148 Takin' It to the Streets: the Book Wagon 150 Goethe's Travelling Carriage 154 CD-L: The Carriage Driving List 158 Coachmaking in Philadelphia: Part III. 162 The England of the Red House Stable 168 The Harrods' Horse-drawn Operation 172 CAA Highlights of 1997 174 Departments The View from the Box 142 Letters to the Editor 153 Memories, Mostly Horsy 159 The Road Behind: The Breaking Cart 166 Book Reviews 170 The Carriage Trade 176

Features The Chariot, Genteel and Otherwise 4 7 The Rebirth of the "Nimrod" 53 William P. Sargent & Co. 57 The London Jobmasters 61 Preparing for the Show Ring 66 The 2002 CAA Learning Weekend 71 Departments The View from the Box 46 Memories Mostly Horsy 51 Letters to the Editor 56 Tack Room Talk 64 The Road Behind: Wisping and Pouncing 69 Book Reviews 73

Features The Curricle 3 Winter Transportation 7 Lord Brougham's Good Idea 15 The Craft of the Wainwright: The Spring Maker 21 Leicester to London in Three Days 23 A Potpourri of Driving Hints 26 Departments The View from the Box 2 Memories Mostly Horsy 10 Tack Room Talk 13 Letters to the Editor 17 The Road Behind: The Sleigh 19 Book Reviews 27 The Carriage Trade 29

In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.

A new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century ‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION’, Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to Renewal The work of the pioneering historian Raphael Samuel opened up new vistas of historical enquiry. He was committed to the idea of people’s history, in which he excavated the ordinary lives of those often overlooked or discarded by other writers. This ‘unofficial knowledge’ transformed what history was, who was allowed to do it, and who it was for. Workshop of the World brings the full range and depth of Samuel’s historical writing on nineteenth-century Britain to the fore. From his pioneering study of the influence of the Catholic Church on England’s Irish population to his expansive and erudite essay on the itinerant labourers of Victorian Britain, the collection captures both the breadth and depth of his learning. Guided by both a political engagement as well as a methodological commitment to uncovering the stories of ordinary people, Workshop of the World will help introduce Raphael Samuel’s work to a new generation of readers.

The function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the highest spiritual expressions. This volume, illustrated in color throughout, presents the proceedings of a conference organized by the Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and held in November 1994 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book includes 40 articles that explore the history and conservation of a wide range of painted wooden objects, from polychrome sculpture and altarpieces to carousel horses, tobacconist figures, Native American totems, Victorian garden furniture, French cabinets, architectural elements, and horse-drawn carriages. Contributors include Ian C. Bristow, an architect and historic-building consultant in London; Myriam Serck-Dewaide, head of the Sculpture Workshop, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels; and Frances Gruber Safford, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A broad range of professionals—including art historians, curators, scientists, and conservators—will be interested in this volume and in the multidisciplinary nature of its articles.