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Sue Wilkes - Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives: The Industrial Revolution in Lancashire - 9780752442532 - V9780752442532
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Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives: The Industrial Revolution in Lancashire

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Description for Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives: The Industrial Revolution in Lancashire Paperback. Recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers navvies and glassblowers using contemporary eyewitness accounts and interviews. This work depicts the dire state of towns and the dreadful hazards workers faced on a daily basis. Num Pages: 160 pages, 120. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 174 x 11. Weight in Grams: 420.

Working families in Victorian Lancashire had few choices. Work; starve; or face the workhouse and the break up of their family. Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers navvies and glassblowers using contemporary eyewitness accounts and interviews. It depicts the dire state of towns and the dreadful hazards workers faced on a daily basis. Who was the ‘knocker-upper’? Why did families eat ‘tommyrot’? Why couldn’t ‘Lump Lad’ sleep soundly in his bed? Men, women and children endured incredibly long working hours in appalling conditions – but their toil helped make Britain ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752442532
SKU
V9780752442532
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Sue Wilkes
Sue Wilkes was born in Lancashire. Her grandmother and great-grandmother worked in the textile industries; her grandfather and great-grandfather were colliers. Sue read Physics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is married, with two children, and lives in Cheshire.

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