Religion, Business and Society in North-East England: The Pease Family of Darlington in the Nineteenth Century. (Shorter Notices).

Religion, Business and Society in North-East England: The Pease Family of Darlington in the Nineteenth Century, by Anne Orde (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 2000; pp. 131. Pb. 19.95 [pounds sterling]).

The Pease family rose to regional prominence during the nineteenth century on the basis of a congeries of enterprises that began with wool-combing and diversified into banking, collieries, railways, and iron and limestone companies. To do justice to the economic, social and political aspects of what became a huge family network in such a short volume is clearly difficult, but the author is to be congratulated on covering so much ground. From time to time she raises interesting …