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Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques they us...

Figures of the Imagination explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture.

Figures of the Imagination explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people¿s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views...

Home to the UK's largest refinery, Fawley is among the most at-risk parts of the country for petrochemical fires. For the first time, the story of this fire station and of the Waterside's private and military fire brigades is told.