A book by David Ball · 2011
Ringstead People The Lives of some Nineteenth-Century People from a Northamptonshire Village
The first collection: the lives of nineteenth-century Ringstead villagers, from farm labourers and lacemakers to those who emigrated to the New World and back.
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Front matter
Acknowledgements Introduction References Website
Stories
1 To New Worlds and Back 2 Boston Workhouse 3 Hard Times? 4 Soldier of Empire 5 Will to Leave 6 The Butcher of Ringstead? 7 English Butcher & Canadian Musician 8 Farm Labourer 9 Quarries & Closing 10 Shoemakers not Thatchers 11 Clicker 12 Papermakers 13 Australian Journey 14 New World Homes 15 In Nelson’s Navy 16 Musicians, Baptists and Chemists 17 Enclosure 18 Gale Tragedy 19 Blood on the Stubble 20 Modern Times 21 Wifebeater 22 The Railway Children 23 Village Schoolmasters 24 First Post 25 The Village Blacksmith 26 INNKEEPERS & BEERSELLERS 27 Lacemakers 28 Transported ? 29 Last Words