British seamen's missions and sailors' homes 1815 to 1970 : voluntary welfare provision for serving seafarers
From the 1820s an ever present feature of most British ports has been the voluntary societies, little- studied before, offering spiritual and social welfare support to serving seafarers. The perspective taken in this study is that although there were numerous individual societies voluntary effort fo...
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University of Plymouth
1989
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328754 |