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The Road to Nab End
- A Lancashire Childhood
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Road to Nab End af William Woodruff, 9781906011260
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9781906011260
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1906011265
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 2011
Størrelse i cm:
33,9 x 15,3 x 1,8
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 2011
Forfatter(e):

The Road to Nab End

- A Lancashire Childhood
Engelsk
Paperback 2011
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From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn’s weaving community. But after Lancashire’s supremacy in cotton textiles had ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, including the great depression of the 1930s, Woodruff and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. Reading this book today, it is hard to comprehend that within living memory - and in what was the richest country in the world - so many people couldn’t even afford to buy enough food. For the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry."
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9781906011260
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1906011265
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 2011
Størrelse i cm:
33,9 x 15,3 x 1,8
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 2011
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