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Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives: The Industrial Revolution in Lancashire
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Product Description
Real stories; real people; real lives. 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.'
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #124795 in Books
- Published on: 2008-02-01
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
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.
Customer Reviews
Bringing alive our industrial past!
I really enjoyed this wonderfully researched book, which provides a fascinating insight into the lives and conditions of working people from our not too distant past. I love the way Sue Wilkes describes and sets the scenes - I could almost smell the squalor! The stories of individuals are told with empathy and make touching tributes to the heroes and heroines who often gave their lives in the name of progress. A must read for anyone interested in history. I wished I'd had this book in my history teaching days for there is much that ties in with the curriculum and would make the subject come alive for pupils.
Insightful view of the Northern way of life
Fascinating glimpse of social behaviours in the industrial age. I found it engrossing - couldn't put it down.
