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IN this volume the author has tried to present the facts of the social conditions of the eleven municipal areas from Newburn and Blaydon along both banks of the Tyne to the sea. Most of the information was collected in the years 1926–27, but the survey does not claim to give a complete view of the area in those particular years. The author has attempted, with much success, to indicate the forces that are at work in changing the life of Tyneside. The result is a valuable study of the evolution of human society in one of the oldest areas of industrial England. The influence of place in the growth of this human ‘conurbation’ is not neglected, but the study might have had wider value if the geographical factors in the rise and growth of Newcastle and other centres had been given more attention. The poorness of the maps is out of keeping with the care and trouble that the work in general has demanded.
Industrial Tyneside: a Social Survey made for the Bureau of Social Research for Tyneside.
By Dr. Henry A. Mess. Pp. 184. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1928.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Miscellany. Nature 124, 544 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124544b0
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