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Mrs Jenny Burt - 22nd April 1985
J Burt - Thesis - Bibliography

This study was undertaken at Bedford College of Higher Education
BA Combined Studies (cnaa) Degree British History Third Year Individual Study

The Relationship between the growth of the Boot and Shoe Industry and Non-conformity in Rushden, 1881-1901.

Primary Sources

Rushden Temperance Society Records, Northants  CRO YZ9690
Wellingborough and Kettering News from 1877
Rushden School Board, Northants  CRO ML2473
Diocese of Peterborough, Incumbents Visitation Returns, Northants CRO Misc. L598/600
Census Returns, (1981) Northants  CRO
The 1851 Religious Census of Rushden, Northants  CRO M58
John Clark's  Factory, Northants CRO  Box S355
Trade Directories: National Commercial, 1830
Kellys, 1847, 1869, 1885, 1890, 1903, Whellans, 1874 Phillips, 1909
Independent Wesleyan Church, Rushden (Methodist)

Class book, Trust Deed 1874, Conveyances
Centenary of the Sunday School,1848-1948, W.J. Lack
Minutes of Teachers meetings, 1893-1902
Minutes of society meetings, 1898-1903
Minutes of Church meetings, 1884-1898
Higham Ferrers Methodist Circuit, Northants CRO HFMC No.6
  Local Preachers Minute Book, 1848-1903
Primitive Methodist Church, Rushden. Northants CRO HFMC No.97
  Deed of Conveyance
Trustees Minutes Book from 1889
Independent Wesleyan Mission Hall
  Minute Book of the Band of Hope
Pledge Book of the Band of Hope
'A Brief Epitome of the Wesleyan Mission Hall Sunday School'
Ledger from 1900
Treasurer's cash account
Handbill, Opening services
Minute Books of Leaders and the Church meeting
‘Memoirs, Leaves from a Bandsman's  Diary’,   E.A. Panter, probably written c.1943 or 4.
Old Baptist Minute Book, 1735-1892, copy in Northampton Central library, Local Studies Collection

Northants Branch of the Working Mens' Club and Institute Union, Minute Book from 1908.

The Club and Institute Journal, 1952, Official Organ of the Club and Institute Union
Rushden Working Mens Club
  Ledger from 1896
Minute Book 1898-1907
Rushden Athletic Club
  Minute Book 1995, Ledgers and pamphlets, e.g.  Ballot papers, lists of subscribers
Exctract from The Grub Institute of Behavioural Studies P114/17 Project on the Task of the Church. Report to the Steering Committee,  March, 1971.

Secondary Sources

Ainsworth, J.J., 'Religion in the Working Class Community, and the Evolution of Socialism in Late Nineteenth Century Lancashire :  A case of Working Class  Consciousness’,  Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vol. 10, 1977, p. 354-380.
Ashworth, W., An Economic History  of  England , 1870-1939 (Methuen and Co., Ltd., I960)
Bates,  H. E. , The Vanished World (Michael Joseph, London 1969)
Bayes, G., These Years Have Told (S.L Hunt Ltd., 1951)
Briggs, J. and Sellers,  I., Victorian Nonconformity (Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1973)
Chadwick, 0., The Victorian Church 2 Vols,  (A. and C. Black Ltd., 1970)
Cox, J., The English Churches in a Secular Society  Lambeth 1870-1930. (Oxford University Press,  1982)
Everitt, A., The Pattern of Rural Dissent in the Nineteenth Century. Department of English Local History, Occasional Papers, Second Series, No. 4.  (Leicester University Press, 1972)
Fox, A.,  A History of The National Union of  Boot and Shoe Operatives. (Blackwell, Oxford, 1958)
Fullerton K., (ed. R.W. Green)  Protestantism and Capitalism (D.C. Heath and Co.,  Boston,  1959)
Gilbert, A.D., Religion and Society in Industrial England (Longman Group Ltd., 1976)
Hall, B.T., Our Sixty Years (Working Mens’ Club and Institute Union, Ltd.,  1922)
Hall, D. and Harding, R. ,  Rushden, A Duchy of Lancaster Village (Buscott Publications,  1985)
Harris, Revd. W.F., The Romance of a Northamptonshire Baptist  Church. Published in 1901
Harrison, B., Drink and the Victorians  (Faber and Faber Ltd., 1971)
Hatley, V.A., Shoemakers in Northamptonshire — A Statistical  Survey, 1762-1911.  Northamptonshire Historical Series, No . 6 published June 1971.
Hobsbawm, E.J., and Scott, J.W. 'Political Shoemakers’ Past and Present (1980, No. 89)
Inglis, K.M., ‘Patterns of Religious  Worship in 1851', Journal of Ecclesiastical History Vol.  XI, (1960)  p.  74-86.
Kent, Revd. J.H.S., ‘The Role of Religion In the Cultural Structure of the Later Victorian City’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Series,  Vol. 23., London 1973.
Lack, H., The Rushden Park Road Baptist Sunday School. Work and Workers of a Hundred Years,  1810-1910 published in 1910.
Lea, J., 'The Growth of the Baptist  Denomination in mid Victorian Lancashire and Cheshire', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,  vol. 124, 1972.
Longmate, N., The Waterdrinkers (Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1968)
Moore, R. ,  Pitmen Preachers and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1974)
Northants Record Society, Northamptonshire Past and Present,  particularly Volume V
Payne, P.L., British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century (MacMillan Press Ltd., 1974)
Rushden Rotary Club,  Old Rushden (1979)
The Salvation Army, 100 years of Service,_Rushden Corps. 1883-1983.
Taylor, J., ‘From Self-help to Glamour, the Working Mens' Club,  1860-1972’
History Workshop Pamphlets No. 7.  History Workshop, Ruskin College Oxford.
Thompson, D.M., Non-conformity in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972)
Thompson, D.M., ‘1851 Religious Census: Problems and Possibilities'
Victorian Studies Vol. XI (1967-8) p. 87-97.
Victoria County History for Northamptonshire. Vols. I-IV.
Tremlitt, G., The First Century (Working Mens’ Club and Institute Union Ltd., 1962)
Webb, B., My Apprenticeship  (Longmans  London 1926)
The Whitbread Library, Your Club (Whitbread and Co. Ltd., 1950)
White, J,  K. B. (Keep Believing) The John White Story (pub. c. 1968)
Yeo, S. ,  Religion and Voluntary Organisations in Crisis (Croom Helm Ltd,  London, 1976)



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