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A Landscape of Reform

Author: Michael Pollard

Format: Paperback

This regional study centred on the coalfields of the North Midlands investigates the development of a series of model colliery villages, chief among them New Bolsover and Creswell (both in Derbyshire) and Woodlands/Brodsworth (South Yorkshire). Based on original archival research, the book considers the phenomenon of such ‘model villages’ to