Songs and Verse of the North–East Pitmen c.1780–1844 Harker Hardback

Songs and Verse of the NorthEast Pitmen c.17801844\nby Dave Harker\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Dave Harker\nTitle: Songs and Verse of the NorthEast Pitmen c.17801844\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd\nPublication year: 1999\nISBN-13: 9780854440610\nISBN-10: 0854440615\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis volume contains 122 carefully-edited manuscripts and printed texts written about, for, on behalf of and by pit-village men and women, accompanied by notes, indices and a bibliography. In the introduction, the editor argues that the original pit-village texts present a challenge to conventional historical accounts. It also demonstrates how they were mediated by William Daniells, the 1840s `Miners' Advocate' editor, who acted as a cultural and p.