'Linen merchant-manufacturers of Kirkham in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' in E Roberts (ed), A History of Linen in the North West

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Author(s) Wilkinson, Joan
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1998
Pages pp66-92
Publisher Lancaster University
Place Published Lancaster

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Focuses especially on the firm of Thomas Langton, 1724-94, a linen merchant and manufacturer whose correspondence survives for 1771-88. Has sections: 'The sail cloth trade'; 'Overseas trade'; 'The home market - agents and communications problems'; 'Education'; 'Family, health and leisure'; 'Into the nineteenth century'; 'Public and private lives of the Birleys and Langtons'