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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	LS/307.720941
Title	Rural: the lives of the working class countryside.
Date	2023
Publication Date	2023
Author	Smith, Rebecca
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN	9780008526276
Abstract	Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history - foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal - 'Rural' is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed.
Term	Poverty
	Coal mining
	Coal miners
	Working class
	Rural communities

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