The Birth of Industrial Britain
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The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, 1750-1850
By Kenneth Morganstake inthe soil«and insome partsofthe country saw them crowdedinto decayed farm houses with noland on which to gain their subsistence [Doc. 4]. Most ofthedispossessed didnot quitthe land for the towns; thatdoes appear to be a ...
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The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850
By Kenneth MorganFor Wales seeDavid W. Howell, TheRural Poorin EighteenthCentury Wales (Cardiff: University of WalesPress, 2000).For Scotland, which had a differentpoor lawtradition than England and Wales,the best studyis RosalindMitchison, ...
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The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850
By Kenneth MorganWhen he was 11 he was apprenticed by the parish officers of Market Lavington to Joseph Somner, broadweaver, of the parish of Melksham until he was 24. He lived with and served Somner in Melksham between 10 and 11 years, then his master, ...
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The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change, 1750-1850
By Kenneth MorganThe companion volume to The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, together they provide a comprehensive guide to Britain's development as the first industrial power. This volume focuses on...
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The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change, 1750-1850
By Kenneth MorganThis volume focuses on the social impact of early industrialization on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest.