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PublisherBritish Academy

ISBN-100197266703

ISBN-139780197266700

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038258457

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Number of Pages385 Pages

Publication NameBusiness and Family in the North of England During the Early Industrial Revolution : Records of the Lives of Men and Women in Trade, 1788-1832

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEurope / General, African American

Publication Year2020

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorDavid Hughes

SeriesRecords of Social and Economic History Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight23.8 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-286774

Reviews"A fascinating glimpse of domestic, familial, personal, emotional and even spiritual life, and its interaction with commercial engagement ... Most readers then will both enjoy and benefit from this collection." -- Jane Humphries, Northern History "This volume is a valuable collection of primary sources that puts people back into the history of the Industrial Revolution ... This carefully selected collection elevates the writings and voices of ordinary tradespeople outside of London in a field that has so often privileged the exceptional and the metropolis." -- Tawny Paul, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, This volume is a valuable collection of primary sources that puts people back into the history of the Industrial Revolution ... This carefully selected collection elevates the writings and voices of ordinary tradespeople outside of London in a field that has so often privileged the exceptional and the metropolis., "This volume is a valuable collection of primary sources that puts people back into the history of the Industrial Revolution ... This carefully selected collection elevates the writings and voices of ordinary tradespeople outside of London in a field that has so often privileged the exceptional and the metropolis." -- Tawny Paul, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, "A fascinating glimpse of domestic, familial, personal, emotional and even spiritual life, and its interaction with commercial engagement ... Most readers then will both enjoy and benefit from this collection." -- Jane Humphries, Northern History"This volume is a valuable collection of primary sources that puts people back into the history of the Industrial Revolution ... This carefully selected collection elevates the writings and voices of ordinary tradespeople outside of London in a field that has so often privileged the exceptional and the metropolis." -- Tawny Paul, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number60

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.5509427

Table Of ContentAbbreviations General introduction 1: Introduction to the Wilson Correspondence 2: The Wilson Correspondence 3: Introduction to John Coleman's Memoir and Accounts 4: John Coleman's Memoir 5: John Coleman's Accounts 6: Introduction to George Heywood's Diary and Memoir 7: George Heywood's Diary and Memoir 8: Introduction to Robert Ayrey's Letterbook 9: Robert Ayrey's Letterbook Index

SynopsisThis volume of annotated primary sources focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern 'industrial' and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool from 1788 to 1832. Insights are offered into their domestic, familial, 'personal' and spiritual lives, their business dealings and links with their wider communities., This volume focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern 'industrial' and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool between 1788 and 1832. It incorporates the correspondence of the Wilson family of Sheffield snuff manufacturers (1788-95); the memoir of a Liverpool baker, John Coleman (1797); the diary of George Heywood, a Manchester grocer (1809-15); and the letterbook of the Leeds milliner, Robert Ayrey (1832). Each of the four sets of primary materials offers detailed insights into the domestic, familial, 'personal' and spiritual lives of their authors and their friends and relations, as well as shedding light on their business dealings and links with the wider communities in which they lived. It is unusual to find such intimate material from relatively modest middling men and women of this period extant, and the survival and publication of these documents provides us with rare vistas onto their experiences, expectations and anxieties. Although different in form, the sources in this volume fit together well due to their shared themes of business and family life, and their subjects' broadly similar social status and urban settings. Moreover, the volume relates to a variety of current historical concerns including gender, domesticity, marital relations, women's work and property, the family, urban society and business. It is also very readable, since many of the accounts are particularly lively, and include elements of drama, romance and pathos in addition to more prosaic business concerns.

LC Classification NumberHT690.G7B75 2020