This study of women's labor history runs from the Civil War Era to the dawn of World War II and examines three different kinds of work communities. Hall introduces the volume with background on late n
For hundreds of years the keelmen, the 'keel lads o' coaly Tyne' celebrated in the north-east folk song 'The Keel Row', ferried coal down-river to the estuary and cast it aboard ships bound for London
Middlesbrough's rise was truly extraordinary, from almost nothing in 1850 to a great industrial city within a few decades, its success based on iron and steel. This book examines the development. It
Although religious life in medieval Durham was ruled by its prince bishop and priory, the laity flourished and played a major role in the affairs of the parish, as Margaret Harvey demonstrates. Using
The ancient but isolated town of Whitby has made a huge contribution to the maritime history of Britain: Captain Cook learned sailing and navigation here; during the eighteenth century the town was a
Historians increasingly emphasise that, in order to understand the industrial revolution fully as an economic, social and political process, the subject is best viewed from a regional, rather than a n
