'Steelmakers as master cutlers. A look at a Sheffield industrial elite' in C Binfield & D Hey (eds), Mesters to Masters. A history of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
Details:
- Author(s) Tweedale, Geoffrey
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1997
- Pages pp63-84
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Entrepreneurs & business elites
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Analyses the careers of Sheffield steelmasters who served as Master Cutlers, 1863-1990s, in a period when steelmakers overtook cutlers as the elite in both the Company and in Sheffield. Analyses their backgrounds in terms of politics, religion, education, the businesses with which they were connected, the nature of the output of these businesses, etc