Charles V. Skargon (b. 1900): Education & Schooling Schooling for me was not a happy memory as far as liking it was concerned and I’m afraid I was not a …
Margaret Watson b.1907: Education and Schooling “Old habits are hard to die” Margaret Watson’s childhood experience was unique due to the fact that she experienced both a working-class, …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Education & Schooling [1/2] ‘…it was while we lived at the Hough that my Father I don’t remember about mother that he got interested in a …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Education & Schooling [2/2] ‘I was nearly nine years old when I started why I had not gone before I don’t know’ (p.42) David Vincent writes …
Olga Pyne Clarke (1915-1996): Education and Schooling Olga Pyne Clarke’s education started at home. She remembers how her family would only talk to her as ‘an equal’ (p.34) when …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling. ‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Maud Clarke (1887-1982): Education and Schooling – Part 1: Childhood “Perhaps I was a “loner”, for I liked throwing a ball as high as possible up to a gable-end and catching it” …
Maud Clarke (1887-1982): Education and Schooling – Part 2: Teaching Few people know what career they want as children, but Maud Matilda Clarke (née Mills, 1887-1982) started her much loved teaching profession …
Nora Lumb (b.1912) Education and Schooling Blog: Part 1 “I started school when I was four years old.” (Lumb, pg. 5) Nora Lumb, a working-class citizen born in 1912. Through her …
Arthur P Jacobs: Education and Schooling Arthur’s memoir includes a whole chapter on ‘Early School and Later Inspiration’, drawing upon his time at pre- school, and how the …
