Henry Broadhurst, M. P.; the Story of His Life From a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench
Henry Broadhurst, M. P.; the Story of His Life From a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench

Author: Henry Broadhurst

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022760523

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Henry Broadhurst was a prominent British labor leader and politician of the late 19th century, known for his fierce advocacy of workers' rights and his passionate opposition to imperialism. This compelling autobiography tells his remarkable life story, chronicling his rise from humble origins as a stonemason to his ascension to the highest levels of government. An inspiring tale of perseverance and grit. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Henry Broadhurst, M. P. ; the Story of His Life from a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench
Henry Broadhurst, M. P. ; the Story of His Life from a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench

Author: Henry Broadhurst

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781290710763

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Useful Toil
Useful Toil

Author: Proffessor John Burnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1136151087

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Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.

Idle Hands
Idle Hands

Author: Proffessor John Burnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1134937059

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Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis.

The Great Thorpe Railway Disaster 1874
The Great Thorpe Railway Disaster 1874

Author: Phyllida Scrivens

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1526764059

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The Great Thorpe Railway Disaster of 1874 is the third title from Norwich writer and biographer Phyllida Scrivens, who lives less than half a mile from the site of the fatal collision. At Norwich Station on 10 September 1874, a momentary misunderstanding between the Night Inspector and young Telegraph Clerk resulted in an inevitable head-on collision. The residents of the picturesque riverside village of Thorpe-Next-Norwich were shocked by a ‘deafening peal of thunder’, sending them running through the driving rain towards a scene of destruction. Surgeons were summoned from the city, as the dead, dying and injured were taken to a near-by inn and boatyard. Every class of Victorian society was travelling that night, including ex-soldiers, landowners, clergymen, doctors, seamstresses, saddlers, domestic servants and a beautiful heiress. For many months local and national newspapers followed the story, publishing details of subsequent deaths, manslaughter trial and outcomes of record-breaking compensation claims. The Board of Trade Inquiry concluded that it was ‘the most serious collision between trains meeting one another on a single line of rails […] that has yet been experienced in this country.’ Using extensive research, non-fiction narrative, informed speculation and dramatised events, Phyllida Scrivens pays tribute to the 28 men, women and children who died, revealing the personal stories behind the names, hitherto only recorded as a list.