Abstract
AbstractThe most heavily quarried contemporary source on Britain in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries is Daniel Defoe's Tour (1724‐6). Its findings have been exploited in accounts of the politics, society, economy, architecture, literature and geography of the early modern nation. It has been used by historians of the family, women, religion, art, popular culture, shopping, weather, landscape, transport, leisure, travel and tourism, topography, antiquarianism, archaeology, gambling, the Navy, Civil War battlefields, dialect and industrial archaeology. This article charts the extent of Defoe's influence on our understanding of the age, analysing its value as a connected survey of Britain.
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