Author: Stanley D. ChapmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
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William Felkin, 1795-1874
Author: Stanley D. ChapmanEconomic and Social Change in a Midland Town
Author: Roy A. ChurchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136617027
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older town to become one of the nation's leading industrial centres, and although it was not a product of the industrial revolution Nottingham was completely transformed by it. For most of the nineteenth century the major activities were the production of hosiery by an industry whose methods, organization, and outlook remained traditional for many decades, and the manufacture of machine-made lace, a progressive and mechanized industry which from its early years featured factory production. This text explores the relationship between the development of power based machinery and the more traditional crafts of the area.
Artisans Abroad
Author: Fabrice BensimonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198835841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial take-off in continental Europe. Artisans Abroad examines the lives and trajectories of these workers who emigrated from manufacturing centres in Britain to France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries, considering their mobilities, their culture, their politics, and their relations with the local populations. Fabrice Bensimon reminds us that the British economy was not just oriented towards the Empire and the USA, but also towards the continent, long before the European Union and Brexit, and shows the critical role played by migrant workers in the Industrial Revolution. Artisans Abroad is the first social and cultural history of this forgotten migration.
Origins of Enterprise
Author: Katrina HoneymanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008733
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Education and Society in Nineteenth-Century Nottingham
Author: David WardlePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143875
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An account of the progress made in the provision of education in Nottingham in the nineteenth century. Dr Wardle makes full use of the evidence of newpapers, contemporary accounts and statistics relating to population, child employment, public health, welfare agencies, and charitable organisations to produce an integrated study of the educational, social and economic aspects of a town's growth over 100 years. The experience of Nottingham is compared (generally favourably) with that of other cities. The full use of newspapers means that areas of the educational picture usually overlooked are here given due prominence; for example, the numerically significant private schools, and the lending libraries organised by groups of workmen. This book gives a vivid picture of the growth of our educational system, not only as it was seen by the administrators, but also as it was seen by the parents, and pupils for whom it was intended.
Owenite Socialism: 1840-1849
Author: Gregory ClaeysPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415149808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman
Author: Deborah Anna LoganPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611462169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another is unusual. Indeed, the work’s publishing history reveals that, in reissues of the Autobiography, the Memorials volume was not reproduced; while some might claim that the problem is with the editor—American abolitionist Chapman—rather than the contents, the fact remains that the bulk of the volume consists of primary materials written by Martineau that are available nowhere else, published or archival. Chapman’s participation in the project was originally conceived as supplemental, in the event that the ailing Martineau did not live long enough to complete her memoirs; as it happened, Martineau—who finished the two volumes and had them privately printed in 1855—lived another twenty-one years. Whereas the Autobiography records what Martineau called the “interior life” or subjective perspective on her career, Chapman’s volume addressed the exterior by offering a biographical overview of her friend’s life and work, a record of her last decades, and a collection of posthumous memorials by those with whom her private and public lives intersected. Chapman’s role was to “take up the parallel thread of her exterior life,—to gather up and co-ordinate from the materials placed in my hands the illustrative facts and fragments by her omitted or forgotten; and to show . . . what no mind can see for itself,—the effect of its own personality on the world.” This volume is the first scholarly edition of the Memorials—a biography of one of the foremost intellectual women of the nineteenth century, told primarily in her own words.
Nottingham
Author: J. V. BeckettPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719051753
Category : Nottingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Nottingham's history has encompassed more than Robin Hood, lace, Luddites and Lawrence, bikes, baccy and Brian Clough. Founded as an Anglian settlement on the north side of the River Trent, Nottingham's royal castle placed it at the crossroads of England and English history through the medieval centuries and during the English Civil War.
Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Author: Robert MellorsPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The First Industrialists
Author: François CrouzetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of the founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.