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Wood, Talc and Mr. J
Wood, Talc and Mr. J
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22 daydreams
22 daydreams
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2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Grit: The Banter and Brutal...
Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
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2004 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Goodnight, and Thanks for t...
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Goodnight, and Thanks for t...
Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]
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White Boy in Watts
White Boy in Watts
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The Enemy Within: The Secre...
The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
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Seumas Milne

4.16 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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Roddy Doyle

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The Making of the English W...
The Making of the English Working Class
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E.P. Thompson

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The World Turned Upside Dow...
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
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Christopher Hill

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Passing Clouds
Passing Clouds
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G.A.A. Kent

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Chavs: The Demonization of ...
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
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Owen Jones

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Echoes From a Cobbled Stree...
Echoes From a Cobbled Street: Stories and Poems from the North West
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David Hayes

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Whigs and Hunters: The Orig...
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act
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E.P. Thompson

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Scargill and the Miners
Scargill and the Miners
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Michael Crick

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Gunpowder Soup
Gunpowder Soup
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)

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100 Common Sense Policies t...
100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)

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Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)

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The Ragged Trousered Philan...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Robert Tressell

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Love on the Dole
Love on the Dole
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Walter Greenwood

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The Precariat: The New Dang...
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
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Guy Standing

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Her Own Terms (The Hera Ser...
Her Own Terms (The Hera Series)
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Judith Grossman

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The Nacullians
The Nacullians
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Craig Jordan-Baker (Goodreads Author)

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Hope Mills
Hope Mills
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Constance Pierce

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The Cheerleader (The Snowy ...
The Cheerleader (The Snowy Series, #1)
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Ruth Doan MacDougall

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The Intellectual Life of th...
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
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Jonathan Rose

4.31 avg rating — 274 ratings
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2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
2005 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Skinhead... The Life I Chos...
Skinhead... The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin
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Spike Pitt

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George Mills
George Mills
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Stanley Elkin

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Kieron Smith, Boy
Kieron Smith, Boy
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James Kelman

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2006 - Thanks for the Vodka
2006 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Skinhead... The Life I Chose
Skinhead... The Life I Chose
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What has He Done Now?: Tale...
What has He Done Now?: Tales from A North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
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David Hayes MD

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Ivory Bright
Ivory Bright
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Elaine Ford

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Liberty Against the Law: So...
Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies
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Christopher Hill

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Dogshit Saved My Life
Dogshit Saved My Life
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)

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What Has He Done Now?: Tale...
What Has He Done Now?: Tales from a North West Childhood in the 60s and Early 70s
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David Hayes

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Household Saints
Household Saints
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Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)

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Captain Swing
Captain Swing
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Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Calico Jack in your Garden
Calico Jack in your Garden
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)

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Customs in Common: Studies ...
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
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E.P. Thompson

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Anita and Me
Anita and Me
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Meera Syal

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How Late It Was, How Late
How Late It Was, How Late
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The Ghost Road (Regeneratio...
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
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Pat Barker

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Hard Travellin': The Hobo a...
Hard Travellin': The Hobo and his History
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Kenneth Allsop

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Swing Hammer Swing!
Swing Hammer Swing!
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Jeff Torrington

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The Busconductor Hines
The Busconductor Hines
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James Kelman

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The Condition of the Workin...
The Condition of the Working Class in England
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Friedrich Engels

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The Labouring Classes in Ea...
The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850
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John Rule

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Live Working or Die Fightin...
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
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Paul Mason

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The Classic Slum: Salford L...
The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century
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Robert Roberts

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The London Hanged: Crime an...
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
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Peter Linebaugh

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DEVIL'S CAROUSEL
DEVIL'S CAROUSEL
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Jeff Torrington

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Not Not While the Giro
Not Not While the Giro
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A Ragged Schooling: Growing...
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
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Robert Roberts

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British Trade Unionism, 175...
British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850: The Formative Years
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John Rule (Editor)

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London Labour and the Londo...
London Labour and the London Poor
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Henry Mayhew

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