Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume 1 - Hardcover

 
9780333131800: Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume 1

Synopsis

Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, trade unionists and other radicals after 1850. The book is especially concerned with 20th-century activists and intellectuals, notably those whose formative years or main political life was spent during the period between the two World Wars.

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Review

Review of Volume VII

'The Dictionary is now well established as a central source for details of careers and bibliographical information...The composite index at the end of each volume means that this series can be continued indefinitely, and anyone working in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history must hope that it will be.' - Dr H.C.G. Matthew, English Historical Review

About the Author

JOYCE M. BELLANY is a Fellow of the University of Hull. Her publications include Yorkshire Business Histories: A Bibliography and The Trade and Shipping of Nineteenth-Century Hull.

JOHN SAVILLE is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Hull. His previous books include Ernest Jones: Chartist; Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951; and three volumes of Essays in Labour History, edited with Asa Briggs. Forthcoming is his study 1848. The British State and the Chartist Movement.

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