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Links
BBC - History - Banners of the British Labour Movement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/protest_reform/banners_01.shtml
Five part article by Dr Myna Trustram on symbolism in British working class protest.
British Labour History
http://www.chelmsfordtuc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/labourhistory.html
Information on a wide range of British labour movement history and trade union leaders from the Chelmsford TUC.
History Today: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. (book review)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1373/3_52/83761985/p1/article.jhtml
Review of the book by Jonathan Rose.
Marx and Engels, The British Working Class and the Labour Party
http://www.socialistvoice.org/m_e_lp_part1.htm
Article on the influence of Marx and Engels on working class history in Britain.
The British Working Class in Postwar Film
http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/b/british-working-class-in-postwar-film.shtml
Kevin Redhouse reviews the book by Philip Gillett, a sociological study of postwar Britain and the ways in which film portrayed the working class, the relationship between cinema as a means of popular entertainment and as a text is played out within the establishment of an historical context.
The Development of the British Working Class, A Debate: Part I - Suite101.com
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_history/30963
Part 1 of a two-part series exploring the debate among British historians about the emergence and development of the British working class during the 19th century.
The Labour Movement In Leicester 1883-2003
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/leicester_labhis/index.html
An illustrated history of the labour movement in Leicester covering the last 120 years. Contains photographs and other visual material from this period.
Victorian Life
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/hoddies/victoriana.html
Examines the plight of the working class and the poor under Victorianism.
