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This region, much the smallest of all the regions in extent, was also at the beginning of the period the smallest of them in population. By 1911, however, it contained a larger population than three other regions ; such was the rapidity of its development. The growth did not take place on the western side — towards the High Peak in Derbyshire — but further east, in Sheffield, the city of the region, and in the coalfields of the Don Valley.
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P. Abercrombie, Sheffield, a Civic Survey (1924), p. 13.
S. H. Jeyes, Life of Sir Howard Vincent (1912), p. 190. 4 Sheffield Independent, 17 Jan. 1906.
For H. J. Wilson, see W. S. Fowler, A Study in Radicalism and Dissent (1961).
Yorkshire Post, 13 Jan. 1910; on the extent of the estates see J. T. Ward, ‘West Riding Landlords and Mining in the Nineteenth Century’, Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research, xv (1963), 63.
F. Bealey and H. Peiling, Labour and Politics, 1900–1906 (1958), pp. 225–7.
E. Reclus, The British Isles (1887), p. 249.
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Pelling, H. (1967). Peak-Don Region. In: Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00301-3_11
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