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Important about the british industrial revolution was that it was truly different from what came before it, it was driven by the vision of people rising from relatively modest backgrounds, and trying to transform society, and that sounds really exciting, but at the end a lot of it exactly like you said, was pretty bad for the working classes, for about eight years, 90 years. the early phase is characterised by steam engines but what that meant was children as young as five or six were sent into ...

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Winter gardens, 1963. when my father passed away, the irish times ran an obituary and highlighted how he had spent a lot of the �*50s trying to reach out because clearly we were catholics coming from derry trying to reach out to the protestant working classes and protestant workers on the basis that he was utterly convinced that the industrialists of northern ireland were using the axe and hatchet of sectarianism to divide the working classes and to exploit them. crudely, he didnt think this w...

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One minute having an alliance with the labour party, the next with the duke of wellington, you are forming cross—party alliances. young mac goe5 cross—party alliances. young mac goes back to my father. some people might say he was being brilliantly insightful. might say he was being brilliantly insiuhtful. ., _ might say he was being brilliantly insiuhtful. ., , insightful. some would say foolish to stop trying _ insightful. some would say foolish to stop trying to — insightful. some would...

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

Several months ago, while thinking about Brook Jackson’s case, I started developing some argument frameworks to help plaintiffs, attorneys and judges get past some of the biggest legal obstacles [...]

Historian John Boughton picks 12 of the UK's most interesting public housing schemes featured in his book A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates.

>> after tony died, the restaurant just became this shrine. we didnt realize he meant so much to so many people. you inspired me to get out of my comfort zone and fearlessly immerse myself in the richness of life. advocate for the working classes, the immigrants, the poor, this world doesnt deserve you. and then a few people left phones, one said everyone forgets -- i believe he was not feeling as he felt but just coming to the end of his triumph.

To mark this weekend’s Raise the Roof protests we profile the journey of Oliver Bond residents in seeking fair regeneration of their social housing estate within the gentrifying inner-city neighbou...