Author: William Edward Armytage Axon
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781296254155
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Author: Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: William Edward Armytage Axon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Preface This volume is intended for those who find it pleasant, at times, to wander in the byways of topography and local literature. The development of Lancashire, especially in its relation to modern industrial life, has been told by more than one able historian, and all that is here attempted is to glean in the ample harvest fields. The bygone customs, forgotten worthies, outworn superstitions, historical episodes and travellers' tales here recorded, will, it is hoped, not be without interest. If some of the articles seem more modern than the title would strictly justify, it must be remembered that the changes in the condition of the County Palatine have been so rapid that many things have become obsolete in the life time of the existing generation.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: John Wilkinson, T.T. Harland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732659143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Reproduction of the original: Lancashire Folk-Lore by John Harland, T.T. Wilkinson
Author: William Woodruff
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Category : Cotton manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416541632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author: Alfred William Pollard
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Author: Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1849045976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. -from "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood (1843) In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordered to return to their cramped workshops the day after ominous cracks were discovered in the building's concrete structure. Rana Plaza's destruction revealed a stark tragedy in the making: of men (in fact mostly women and children) toiling in fragile, flammable buildings who provide the world with limitless cheap garments - through Walmart, Benetton and Gap - and bring in 70% of Bangladesh's foreign exchange. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook investigates the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps and sweatshirts. He also traces the intertwined histories of workers in what is now Bangladesh, and Lancashire. Two hundred years ago the former were dispossessed of ancient skills and their counterparts in Lancashire forced into labour settlements; in a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of Britain's textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world's major clothing exporters. The two examples offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it won't be long before global business, in its nomadic cultivation of profit, relocates mass textile manufacture to an even cheaper source of labour than Bangladesh, with all too predictable consequences for those involved.
Author: Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 1328489884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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"A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--
