Liberty's Dawn (e-book) (used book) | Emma Griffin | bookbook.eu

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Readers who enjoy reading about the British Industrial Revolution of the 19th cent. will probably not have come across anything like this. Emma Griffin has done an enormous amount of detailed research into the writings of hundreds of "memoirists" - "simple naritives" - who noted down their experiences as members of the working- and labouring -class.
It is not all misery, gloom and poverty , although that was
every-present for many thousands. Emma Griffin reveals that for many it was also a time of opportunity; a time of better education. It was also a time which saw workingmen and women (although Griffin shows that most of the "autobiographers" at the time were men) gain in confidence ,enabling them to enter into the world of politics, debating and campaigning for workers' rights and better working and living conditions.

An important book - giving a voice to hundreds of "invisible" men and women whose written experiences had hitherto been hidden away in hundreds of municipal and academic archives scattered all across the UK.