Currently browsing author

Helen Rogers

Voices from the Labour Camps

We are delighted to share the second post in our Guest Blog series on autobiographical recollections on working-class history. Here John Field …

Fun and Festivities

C.V. Horner (1897-1980): Biographical Entry

2. 422 HORNER, C.V., ‘Ups and Downs: A Lifetime spent in the Yorkshire Dales’, TS, pp.242 (c.80,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born …

Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Transcript

1:719 TRIGGLE, Mary Laura, Series of autobiographical letters, MS, pp.25 (c.4,000 words). BruneI University Library. Transcript by Helen Rogers, September 2018 Nb. The letters …

Migration, Immigration and Emigration

Themes

Here you can find material on our working-class autobiographers sorted by themes.

Annie Lord, born 1899: Transcript of ‘my life’

This copy of Annie Lord’s memoir, ‘My Life’, was transcribed by Writing Lives student Lydia Roberts, 2019 my life – by Annie …

Lorna Kite born 1916

Susan Silvester (1878-1968): Biographical Entry

1:628 SILVESTER, Susan, In a World that has Gone (Privately printed, Loughborough, 1968), pp.31. Illustrated. Brunel University Library. Born 13 Nov 1878 …

About

Find out more about the project, the archives, and what we do.