Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Education & Schooling ‘In a few months I would be thirteen years and that would mean leaving school. I dreaded it’. Schooling is oftentaken for …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Class matters “Class was dreadfully important then. It often puzzled me.” Bessie Wallis’s family was working class. She makes no effort to hide this …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Habits and Beliefs part 2 Now that I have discussed the habits and beliefs of children as documented by Bessie Wallis I will now focus on the …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Life and Labour part 1 “What do the working class want with education? They have only to work.” For many of those who lived in West Melton, …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Life and Labour part 2 “I didn’t mind going out to work. It was just that girls were so inferior to boys. They were the breadwinners and …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) War and Memory Bessie does not dedicate a lot of time in her memoir to the first World War, however what she does include is …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): Education and Schooling Bessie lived in an area that valued strength over intellect. You didn’t need to pass the curriculum to work in the mines, …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): An Introduction. ‘My YESTERDAYS were an equal mixture of good and bad… Life was what we made it when I was a child in …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): Home and Family “The family had closed ranks. At last we were a tribe united against all else.” Bessie Wallis’s account of her younger years …
