Tradesmen of the Thames : success and failure among the watermen and lighter men families of the upper tidal Thames 1750-1901
This thesis explores the business of the boatmen on the Upper Tidal Thames (Teddington to Chiswick) from 1750 to 1901, and addresses the question of how it was that most of their families survived a series of threats to their trade - the buildingof new bridges and roads, the menace of the press gang...
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Kingston University
2006
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436546 |