Amy Frances Gomm: (b. 1899): Life and Labour I’d known, before I left school, which way I’d go, when my chance came. Office work; that was it for me. It …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Life and Labour Memories of Long Ago, is a nostalgic account of some of Mrs W.E. Palmer’s childhood years which she spent living at Harting …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Life and Labour For many working-class people, much like Jack, schooling was cut short in order to start work. As he notes in his memoir, …
John Britton 1771-1857: Life and Labour Life and Labour Upon finishing his schooling Britton spent a few years working apprenticeships, most notably a period in which he …
Mary Howitt (1888-1983): Life and Labour ‘Mary has had a very full life, and her happiest times were spent when amongst young people’ (Bowral Newspaper, 1978) Mary’s life …
William Belcher (1884-1961) – Life and Labour William Belcher was surrounded by work from an early age. His father was a gasfitter and electrician. Belcher, following in his father’s …
Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Life and Labour What is clear throughout Mary Bradbury’s memoir is the amount of labour she completes alongside her father and his workers. But Mary …
Eva Shilton (b.1907): Life and Labour Although work and general labour are not central themes in Eva Shilton’s memoir, they are a recurrent source of both relief and …
John Shinn (1837-1925): The Musical Journey to Success With much hard work and perseverance I made fair progress, this I kept up for some years and thus my musical knowledge …
John Shinn (1837-1925): Respectability and Improvement I often wonder how I have been able to attain my present position, but it has only been done by… perseverance and …
