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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	LS/677.2
Title	A memoir of Robert Blincoe.
Date	1977
Publication Date	1977
Author	Brown, John
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN	0904573052
Abstract	John Brown's A memoir of Robert Blincoe is a classic account of the brutality and suffering endured in some of the new cotton factories at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is one of the first working class autobiographical memoirs ever published.
Further Information	First published Manchester: J. Doherty, 1832. Includes details of Litton Mill.
Term	Mills
	Cotton textile industry
	Child labour

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Blincoe; Robert (c 1792-1860); Child labourer at Litton Mill, Derbyshire, whose ill-treatment was documented in John Brown's "Memoir of Robert Blincoe".

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Litton Mill	Historic Monument

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