Aspects of the political and social history of Ashington, a Northumberland coal mining community, 1870-1914

This thesis examines the political and social history of Ashington, a coal mining community in Northumberland, in the years 1870 to 1914. This community was the first in the county to move from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party in the early twentieth century and to reject the conciliatory polici...

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Main Author: Hall, Valerie Gordon
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 1993
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530758