Daniel Quinn

Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Home & Family

Family is an important aspect of Thomas Raymont’s life, as he goes into detail about his expansive family history. The first few …

Whilst my previous blog on Education and Schooling focused more on the state of the British schooling system at the time Thomas …

Throughout my time on the Writing Lives project it has allowed me to refine my skills I had learned from my second …

‘My future was settled, I was a teacher, and a teacher I was to remain to the end of my working life-time’ …

In his opening paragraph, Thomas Raymont establishes the reason for writing a memoir as a means to illustrate ‘the social changes which …

Whereas my previous blog focused on Thomas’ experiences of family life during his childhood, this one will focus on adult life as …

A life of labour was undoubtedly the principle method of acquiring income for the working-class during the 19th century. Little had the …

The one continuing theme of Thomas Raymont’s memoir has been his education, his roots are firmly placed in his studies considering from …

Working-class memoirs act as an autobiography about a person’s life as they provide an account of their life. It goes without saying …

‘Teaching gave me opportunities for study which I should not have had if I had started to learn a trade, the only …