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The common view of the rise and relative fall of Britain in the 19th century is that Britain reigned supreme from 1851 until its gradual decline in 1870. These essays aim to challenge this stereotype of the golden age by concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change.
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Contents: Introduction; A lustrous age?, Ian Inkster; ’Nor all that glisters.....’: the not so Golden Age, Harold Perkin; Part One Industry: Introduction, Colin Griffin; Coalmining in mid-Victorian Britain: a Golden Age revisited?, Colin Griffin; A Golden Age of agriculture?, Stephen Caunce; The cotton industry in the 1850s and 1860s: decades of contrast, Geoff Timmins; The Golden Age of electricity, Gillian Cookson; Part Two Technology: Introduction, Ian Inkster; Michael Farraday and lighthouses, Frank A. J. L. James; Lies, damned lies and declinism: Lyon Playfair, the Paris 1867 Exhibition and contested rhetorics of scientific education and industrial performance, Graeme Gooday; Machinofacture and technical change: the patent evidence, Ian Inkster; Part Three Social Institutions: Introduction, Jeff Hill; ’Why should working men visit the Exhibition?’ - workers and the Great Exhibition and the ethos of industrialism, Su Barton; Estimating a public sphere: intellectual and technical associations at the time of the Great Exhibition, Vicky Brown and Ian Inkster; ’Golden Age’ and ’Better Days’: narratives of industrialism in the cotton trade of north-east Lancashire, 1860s to 1920s, Jeff Hill; Popular culture and the ’Golden Age’: the Church of England and hiring fairs in the East Riding of Yorkshire c. 1850-75, Gary Moses; In defence of respectability: financial crime, the ’High Art’ criminal and the language of the courtroom 1850-1880, Sarah Lowrie; Part four gender: Introduction, Judith Rowbotham; ’Physically a splendid race’ or ’hardened and brutalised by unsuitable toil’?: unravelling the position of women workers in rural England during the Golden Age of agriculture, Nicola Verdon; The respectability imperative: a golden rule in cases of sexual assault?, Kim Stevenson; Keep the ’whoam’ fires burning: domestic yearnings in Lancashire dialect poetry, Catriona M. Parratt; ’All our past proclaims our future’: popular biogra
Zusammenfassung
The common view of the rise and relative fall of Britain in the 19th century is that Britain reigned supreme from 1851 until its gradual decline in 1870. These essays aim to challenge this stereotype of the golden age by concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change.
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'... intriguing and thought-provoking... This is a book that poses important questions and raises crucial concerns about our understanding of this period.' Canadian Journal of History
