The Machine Breakers

by Angela Bull

128 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Angela Bull (Mary, née Leach) was born at Halifax, Yorkshire, England on September 28, 1936.
She was educated at Badminton School and at Edinburgh University where she graduated with honours in English 1959.

Reviews

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The Luddite movement is at last discussed as a response to the wider social and economic changes of which ordinary workers were the victims. A narrative full of individual accounts and histories.

Books for Keeps (4 Sept 1980) lists The Machine Breakers by Angela Bull (Collins, 'History's People' series, £3.95) as receiving a 'commendation' in The Other Awards (The Other Award is an alternative children's book award for non-biased books of literary merit. It was inaugurated in 1975 by Rosemary Stones and Andrew Mann, co-editors of Children's Book Bulletin, in an attempt to draw attention to important new writing and illustration for children, and to give due recognition to those writers and illustrators who are taking positive steps to widen the literary experience of young people today. The Other Award takes the form of annual commendations to a number of children's books published in the preceding twelve months. The Award is not accompanied by a money or other prize.)