Project ID: 623

DescriptionThe life of Sam Wood who went to work in the mines at the age of nine but went on to become a trade union leader and eventually an MP who introduced the unsuccessful Miners' Eight Hour Bill in 1893
TopicsSocial history
TypeU3A-led research (SLP)
U3A
Year started2017
Source of referenceThird Age Matters 26, Spring 17, p11
NotesThis is one of number of SLPs linked to the Citizens project at Royal Holloway College - see file card 547 for details
See  www.citizens800.org/U3A  for more information