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The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914

The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914

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The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914

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The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Journal of global history, 2012-11, Vol.7 (3), p.389-414

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English

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Contents

British clubs and societies spread around the English-speaking world in the long nineteenth century. This article focuses on one particularly large friendly society, the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MU), which by 1913 had more than a thousand lodges around the world, especially concentrated in Australia and New Zealand. The MU...

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The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1240207007

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1240207007

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ISSN

1740-0228

E-ISSN

1740-0236

DOI

10.1017/S1740022812000253

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