In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and wome

This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor

This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfare and living

Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant ga