Author: Sue Wilkes
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750956372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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 ‘Great.’
Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives
Author: Sue Wilkes
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750956372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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 ‘Great.’
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750956372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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 ‘Great.’
Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means
Author: Christine Terhune Herrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Country Life in America
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Country Life
A life of Washington Irving
Life in the Old World
Author: Fredrika Bremer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Children's Friend
Life underground, in the church tower, the woods, and the old keep, by the author of 'Life in the walls'.
Reminiscences [and Notes] of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure, Military and Civil, Scientific and Literary: Soldiering in India
Author: Robert George Hobbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description