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The co-operators of Hebden Bridge were to producer co-operation
what the Rochdale Pioneers were to consumer co-operation -
pioneers. Driven by a desire to create their own employment under
their own control, weavers, cutters and machinists at the Nutclough
fustian mill developed a successful business in a small Pennine
town. At its peak it employed over 300 women and men. It ran for
almost fifty years, each year profitable. Creating a new way of
working wasn't always easy. There were discussions about sharing
the rewards of the business, and on how much power those who
provided the capital should be given. How should governance be
structured and what was appropriate management? Should the mill
produce quality products or poorer goods that sold better? Hebden
Bridge's fustian co-operative contributed leaders to the national
co-operative movement and to the emerging movement for workers'
education. Its central figure Joseph Greenwood was involved in the
creation of the International Co-operative Alliance. Women
associated with the co-operative set up in Hebden Bridge the first
branch of the Women's Co-operative Guild in the country. This
richly researched and engrossing account of a worker-run business
is the first significant study of early producer co-operatives in
Britain for over a century. The lessons learned in Hebden Bridge
are still relevant today for all who seek to find new ways of
working and alternative forms of business.
Joan Arkle, a tireless climate change activist, is passionate about
her beliefs. She has taken her campervan to the Lake District, to
be able to live among the hills she loves. Here there is ample
scope for her trade as a wildlife photographer. Here, too, there is
opportunity to make a difference by campaigning against global
warming. But her time in Cumbria proves challenging. Somehow her
activities attract hostility. Increasingly she makes enemies. And
then, one evening on a quiet by-road, her campervan is firebombed.
Who is responsible? And who precisely is Joan Arkle? These are the
questions which both DI Chrissy Chambers of the Cumbrian Police and
Nick Potterton, once a successful London journalist but now a
struggling local freelance, find themselves trying to answer.
Andrew Bibby's latest crime mystery is set among the beauty of the
mountains and lakes of England's most popular National Park.
The years before the First World War saw the development of a
widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at
affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour. From
Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales, working-class
tenants moved into their newly constructed homes and began to
create communities. As Birmingham housing reformer John Nettlefold
put it in 1914, tenants might not be able to own their individual
houses but they could nevertheless say that, collectively, ‘these
houses are ours’. Many of the estates adopted ‘garden
village’ principles as a radical alternative to conventional
urban streets of high-density housing. Community meeting rooms,
allotments, sports facilities and children’s playgrounds were
frequently included. As Andrew Bibby points out in his richly
researched book, this almost forgotten history mirrors uncannily
current interest in bottom-up community-led efforts to meet housing
need. As we face a housing crisis once again in Britain, and with
council housing no longer the default means of providing affordable
homes, the alternative models for social housing developed more
than a century ago offer much that is relevant to us today
This Wainwright-sized guide to the walking opportunities on the
North York Moors focuses on land opened up to walkers by the recent
Right to Roam legislation. It is part of a series of Freedom to
Roam guides published in partnership with Ramblers' Association,
long-time campaigner for greater public access to the countryside.
The guide includes: an introduction to the area: its landscape,
history and natural history; 12 free-range walks, graded for
difficulty, that allow walkers to choose their own route; a
full-page 4-colour OS map for each walk; special features on points
of interest chosen to add to walkers' enjoyment of the countryside;
practical information for visitors; a guide to public rights of
access.
The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the
world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen
at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned
the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by
common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles
of natural rights. His views on popular government and the American
experiment in republicanism, and later the expansion of its empire
of liberty, offered an influential account of the new nation. While
persuasive in crucial respects, his vision of early America did not
stand alone as an unrivaled model. The contributors to Rival
Visions examine how Jefferson's contemporaries - including
Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, and Marshall - articulated
their visions for the early American republic. Even beyond America,
in this age of successive revolutions and crises, foreign statesmen
began to formulate their own accounts of the new nation, its
character, and its future prospects. This volume reveals how these
vigorous debates and competing rival visions defined the early
American republic in the formative epoch after the revolution.
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