Kevin Redhouse reviews the book by Philip Gillett, a sociological study of postwar Britain and the ways in which film portrayed the working class, the relationship between cinema as a means of popular entertainment and as a text is played out within the establishment of an historical context.
www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/b/brit...in-postwar-film.shtml
Part 1 of a two-part series exploring the debate among British historians about the emergence and development of the British working class during the 19th century.
Tells the tale of six labourers' arrest, trial and deportation for unionising, leading to the foundation of modern trade unionism. [Tolpuddle, Dorset]
Information about the TUC Library Collections, now in London Metropolitan University; includes a timeline of union history, the manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists online, and digitised pages from the first century of the Trades Union Congress.
Examines the plight of the working class and the poor under Victorianism.
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