Author: Richard Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM
Author: Richard Pearson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Harvard Historical Studies
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles Gross
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A History of the English People ...
Author: Elie Halévy
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Real Oliver Twist
Author: John Waller
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840464704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840464704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Blood in the Machine
Author: Brian Merchant
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316487732
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read" The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316487732
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read" The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.
The Development of Transportation in Modern England
Author: William T. Jackman
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Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The history of Nottingham
Author: John Blackner
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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“A” Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Power in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Richard Leslie Hills
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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