The Poll Book of the Contested Election for the Northern Division of the County of Northumberland, Taken on the 9th and 10th Days of July, 1841, Including the Addresses and Authentic Papers Issued by the Various Candidates, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Nomination and Declaration Days at Alnwick; to which is Added an Appendix Containing an Account of the Elections of Knights of the Shire Returned for the Counties of Northumberland Since the Accession of the House of Hanover in 1714, with Copies of the Poll Books for 1722 & 1734

The Poll Book of the Contested Election for the Northern Division of the County of Northumberland, Taken on the 9th and 10th Days of July, 1841, Including the Addresses and Authentic Papers Issued by the Various Candidates, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Nomination and Declaration Days at Alnwick; to which is Added an Appendix Containing an Account of the Elections of Knights of the Shire Returned for the Counties of Northumberland Since the Accession of the House of Hanover in 1714, with Copies of the Poll Books for 1722 & 1734
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The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class
Author: E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1504022173
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A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”

A Comprehensive History of Norwich

A Comprehensive History of Norwich
Author: A. D. Bayne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781507506622
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"[...]at a cost of £20,000; and Opie Street has been opened from London Street to the Castle Hill. Of course, the principal places of business are mostly clustered together, either in the Market Place or in the nearest streets; but in former times, every business in Norwich had its particular row or station. Thus, in ancient deeds, we read of the Glover's Row, Mercers Row, Spicer's Row, Needler's Row, Tawer's Row, Ironmonger's Row; also of the Apothecary's Market, the Herb Market, the Poultry Market, the Bread Market, the Flesh Market, the Wool and Sheep Market, the Fish Market, the Hay Market, the Wood Market, the Cheese Market, the Leather Market, the Cloth-cutter's Market, the White-ware Market; all of which we find mentioned before the reign of Richard II.; for about the latter[...]".

My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship
Author: Beatrice Webb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521297318
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My Apprenticeship has long been cited as an important and fascinating source for students of social attitudes and conditions in late Victorian Britain, and this new paperback edition makes it once more generally available. Beatrice Webb, the eighth of the nine daughters of the railway magnate Richard Potter, was an exceptionally able person, with a zest for observation, a knack for pointed comment, and a habit of self-examination - all of which gifts she put to good account in the private diary she kept all her life and in this brilliant volume of autobiography which she based on that diary. It tells the story of a craft and a creed, of a withdrawn but talented girl, growing up in a prosperous household, who turned to social investigation and social reform, moving between the two starkly contrasted worlds of West End smart society and East End squalor. She served a hard apprenticeship, as a woman as well as a professional worker, and in a new introduction to this edition Norman MacKenzie describes the severe personal stresses which lay behind her life of dedication to social improvement, particularly her frustrated passion for Joseph Chamberlain and the troubled courtship which preceded her marriage to Sidney Webb. This volume ends on the eve of that marriage, when she was about to begin her famous and astonishingly productive collaboration with her husband. As historians, publicists and Fabian politicians the Webbs were pioneers of the modern age. The ensuring volume, which chronicles their mature career and was appropriately titled Our Partnership, is also published by the Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science.