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Simon Cordery, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914.(book review)(Book Review)

By Phillips, Gordon
Publication: Business History
Date: Thursday, April 1 2004

SIMON CORDERY, British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003. Pp. 248. H/back ISBN 0 3339 90315, 45.00 [pound sterling]).

It is over 40 years since P.H.J.H. Gosden published the last comprehensive study of friendly societies. Not many historical subjects of similar scope can have been neglected for so long. Simon Cordery has now revisited these institutions, carrying the story somewhat further than Gosden (who halted in 1875), and incorporating some of the local and collateral research findings of the intervening years. The result is a study which

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