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The lives of ordinary people in Leicester have changed greatly over the last 150 years. During that time the people themselves and their organisations have played a significant part in achieving those changes. This book presents a history of Leicester through the eyes of the Co-operative, Labour and Trade Union movements. It illustrates the long fight for democratic rights, social welfare and better hours and conditions. It is a picture history which brings together images of Leicester working people and their social and political organisations to create a remarkable picture of the life of our grandparents and their parents.The photographs and illustrations in the "People's History of Leicester" have been drawn from a wide variety of sources including the albums of local people and many long-forgotten publications. Some have never been published before. The photographs are accompanied by an informative text and commentary based on new research. Together they show how Leicester working people lived and struggled as they built the Co-operative, Trade Union and the Labour movements. It is tribute to those who cherished the vision of a better life for working people.This book offers a fascinating re-reading of Leicestershire history, seen through the eyes of those who were there. It is fully-illustrated with over 100 images, many previously unpublished.
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NED NEWITT was born in Southend-on-sea in 1946. He studied at Cardiff College of Art and came to Leicester in 1971. In 1983 he initiated the Leicester Oral History Archive and has subsequently researched the development of council housing in Leicester. He was a contributor to Leicester In the Twentieth Century (Sutton, 1993) and, in 2006, published The Anthology of Leicester Chartist Song, Poetry and Verse. Aside from history and politics, he is a keen amateur jazz saxophone player and runs a record label, Mellotone Records, which specialises in historic hot dance band recordings. He is married with two grown-up daughters.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bought this book for my Grandmother who has lived most of her life in Leicester. She was thrilled to recognize many of the places from the photographs, and found the book very informative, so I was extremely happy with the purchase.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a valuable book composed largely of photographs of Leicester's labour activists of the 19th and 20th centuries and of the great gatherings of working men and women throughout that period. The author has given a fair hearing to the women in the Labour and Liberal movements and has good photos of the local suffragettes, aswell as Sylvia Pankhurst's pictures of women at work in Leicester's factories. He uses many photos of and from the Leicester Coop movement and its factories, shops etc. He thus shows the working classes at work and play, aswell as their political activities He includes some telling photos of working class housing. Throughout he provides a written commentary on the photos, briefly giving the historical context. Useful for the family historian and a good present for older Leicestrians to remind them of pre-War Leicester.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ned Newitt's book is an excellent look at the modern social history of Leicester, once one of the riches city's in Europe. As a history student, with a MA in industrial archaeology, & having grown up in Leicester I warmly recommend it.
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