SOCIAL PROGRESS & SOCIAL STAGNATION
1861-1915
That North/South divide again!
Money and weights and measures
Industrial Progress in the North brings its own problems
1893 Riots in Sicily
1898/99 Riots in North and South
Assassination of Umberto I
Emigration an answer for many
Concluding remarks
Some new book references
Christ stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi
Rural Italy William Beauclerk
Casalattico Brian Reynolds
The 1930s began in New York on the 29th October 1929 with The Wall Street Crash. The ripples spread our across the world. Britain, like The States, found itself with a severe economic crisis and a l
The Twenties One might be forgiven for thinking that with all the 'modern' changes to life, from radio broadcasts to the 'talkies', from the first Labour Government to expansion of car ownership, that
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