In Cramped and Sooty Caverns is not a traditional study of industrial history. It adopts as its framework the portrait of nail-makers and nail-making created by Francis Brett Young across nine novels between 1800 and 1930. The book identifies and examines the sources which Young used, as well as others dealing with the themes he addressed, thus establishing the historical reliability of his accounts. This is a very human portrait - real people, real places, real life, which allows the voice of the past to speak.
Language
English
Pages
146
Release
January 01, 2014
ISBN 13
9780904015058
In Cramped and Sooty Caverns The Nail-Makers of Birmingham, Bromsgrove and the Black Country Explored Through the Novels of Francis Brett Young
In Cramped and Sooty Caverns is not a traditional study of industrial history. It adopts as its framework the portrait of nail-makers and nail-making created by Francis Brett Young across nine novels between 1800 and 1930. The book identifies and examines the sources which Young used, as well as others dealing with the themes he addressed, thus establishing the historical reliability of his accounts. This is a very human portrait - real people, real places, real life, which allows the voice of the past to speak.