Abstract
Recent work in British social history shows that Lawrence Stone's thesis of a "revival of narrative" resulting from disillusion with quantification in history is oversimplified. The decline of econometric history has not meant a return to narration but an expansion in the areas studied by social historians, many of whom have used quantitative methods alongside more traditional sources. The combination of quantification with concepts borrowed from the social sciences has led to an extension of analytical method into new fields of research covering diverse topics and in particular a broadly-defined "popular culture.