The Blacketts. A northern dynasty's rise, crisis and redemption

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Author(s) Finch, Greg
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2021
Pages 367pp; illus
Publisher Tyne Bridge Publishing
Place Published Newcastle upon Tyne

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Name National Library of Scotland
City Edinburgh
County Lothian
Country Scotland
Postcode EH1 1EW
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Genealogical tables
Wadsworth Prize Winner Publications

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Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2021. Deals with the first three Sir William Blacketts, 17th-18th centuries, relating a 'story of a dramatic rise from modest origins, the opening up of the regional lead industry, the creation and operation of a huge business and the crises that followed during a turbulent century of conflict and progress'. Has genealogical tables