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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£9.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999803827 | ISBN 10: 1999803825
Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more
View book details£5.95 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780993224720 | ISBN 10: 0993224725
This book tells the dramatic stories of Manchester women who campaigned for social change and progress in the years between 1914 and 1945. It includes women who: campaigned during the First World War for a just and lasting peace that would prevent ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780227801 | ISBN 10: 1780227809
The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation. �In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the e ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780752439129 | ISBN 10: 075243912x
This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women working in mines grew rapidly after the Industrial Revolution. The practice continued until the Children's E ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780752418353 | ISBN 10: 0752418351
Personal memories of ordinary people give us a unique and powerful view of life in the past. This collection of reminiscences of Merseyside people was selected by Diana Pulson from the many interviews recorded by produced Ev Draper for a series ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780752421100 | ISBN 10: 0752421107
Ian Collard charts the developments that have taken place in maritime life on the Mersey, from the 1950s and 1960s through to the present day. Ships of all shapes and sizes have been found on the Mersey, from the old Mersey ferries and the mot ... more
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