A manufacturing district... sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighbourhood.

His first major work The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages was produced in 1818 and was followed nine years later by the Constitutional History of England. Hallam was a fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the British Museum. For the period 1520–1550 there are separate chapters on ancient literature theology science speculative philosophy and jurisprudence the literature of taste and other miscellaneous literature; and the subdivisions of subjects is carried further in later periods.