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John Benson (3) (1945–)

Author of The Working Class in Britain: 1850-1939

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About the Author

John Benson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wolverhampton.

Works by John Benson

The Working Class in Britain: 1850-1939 (1989) 14 copies

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Retailing in Britain 1550-2000 (2002) 7 copies

The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980 (1994) 6 copies

British Coalminers in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History (1980) 5 copies

Prime time : a history of the middle aged in twentieth-century Britain (1997) 4 copies

Studies in the Yorkshire coal industry (1976) 3 copies

Coal in Victorian Britain. Part II, Coal in Victorian Society (2011) 3 copies

Affluence and authority : a social history of twentieth-century Britain (2005) 3 copies

The Working Class in England, 1875-1914 (1985) 3 copies

The Evolution of retail systems, c. 1800-1914 (1992) 2 copies

Coal in Victorian Britain. Part I, Coal in the Victorian Economy (2011) 2 copies

Gerald Howard-Smith and the ‘Lost Generation’ of Late Victorian and Edwardian England (2016) 2 copies

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing (2002) 1 copy

Cultures of selling : perspectives on consumption and society since 1700 (2006) 1 copy

The Miners of Staffordshire 1840-1914 (Staffordshire heritage series) (1993) 1 copy

The Wolverhampton Tragedy: Death and the Respectable Mr Lawrence (2009) 1 copy

The Working Class in England 1875-1914 (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World) (2016) 1 copy

Penny Capitalists: Study of Nineteenth-century Working Class Entrepreneurs (1983) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1945-07-23
Gender: male

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ISBNs: 133
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