The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea

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The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at SeaThis enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, 'The Sailor's Friend', and by his wife Eliza, who worked together to defend sailors against nefarious practices including overloading and the use of unseaworthy 'coffin ships'. The backlash of libel cases and vilification

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