Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Useful Toil : Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s, Paperback / softback Book

Useful Toil : Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of stock

Description

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.

Information

Other Formats

£39.99

Out of stock
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information