Alan Metcalfe: 1 book
Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community
The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820 – 1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895
This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives...
