A rough lot - Alan Brown

Publisher. : ​Self Published
ISBN  : 0953520668

A rough lot by Alan Brown
Nottingham in 1862 - lace finishing employed thousands of young women and girls.  This is the story of their life and work, as told to the Royal Commission of that year ...
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In 1862, the government set up a Royal Commission to investigate the employment of 'children and young persons in trades and manufactures not already regulated by law'.  Commissioners were sent around the country to take evidence from these children working in these industries along with independent people in the locality.

John Edward White, who was the commissioner interviewing Honiton and East Midlands bobbin lace children as well, visited Nottingham to see the conditions in the machine lace industry.

Alan wrote 4 books in total:

• Take the Children
• A rough lot 
• The Honiton Lace industry in 1887
• Lace and the Emerald Isle​

What works well?

• Alan Brown supplements the hard facts of the commission report with information about the time to help place the report into an historical context.

Anything that we need to take into consideration?

• This book is out of print, and rarely comes up for sale.
• It is available to download from the University of Arizona Digital Archive on Weaving.  When printing this pdf remember that it was originally designed to be printed on legal size paper.  So choose to print actual size if you don't have access to that paper size in order to maintain pattern integrity.