Allen Hammond (b.1894): Habits & Beliefs
The interview balances two sides of Allen’s characters: the first being the innate ideological implications that his childhood emphasized, the second being …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Life & Labour II
‘You see. And at the End of the day, believe me, I was in a terrible state. You see. All my hands …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Education & Schooling
Allen’s descriptions of his school are very complementary, without hesitation, he states: “It was a very nice school, a very nice school …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Life & Labour
In the interview, Allen often converses in detail about his parents’ occupations, his father being a ‘seaman’ and his mother a ‘washerwoman’. …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Purpose and Audience
Tomorrow Couldn’t Be Worse originally aired on Granada Television. Its intention was to create a platform that celebrated and emphasized the working-class …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Politics & Protest
Tomorrow couldn’t be worse had tremendous focus on the interviewee more that anything else, therefore Allen doesn’t seem to have a particular …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Home & Family
Allen’s description of the familial roles in his family become especially apt when looking at the working-class experience in the home. Even …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): ‘Tomorrow Couldn’t be Worse’
Citations: Memoir: Hammond, Allen, Programme number:P404/4. Transmission; 26 August 1963. Granada Television. Typescript, 15 foolscap sheets, Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, …
Allen Hammond (b.1894): An Introduction
‘[I worked] after school. Every night. Five o’clock to eight o’clock. And on Saturday, I used to go eight o’clock in the morning til ten o’clock on Saturday night and I used to get two shillings and a bag of faded apples.’
Allen Hammond (b.1894): Researching Writing Lives
Creating the author blog allowed me to research many historical backgrounds and nuances into 20th century England, and especially so Liverpool. Creating …