Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community
''Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...'' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895
This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveal...
''Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...'' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895
This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveal...
