Ruth Cox (1890): Life and Labour Life and Labour: ‘We used to meet our pals, lads and lasses going back to work through Tinkers passage and had many …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part Two) John Edmonds’ memoir, ‘The Lean Years’, is set mainly during the interwar period. As a result, much of John’s working life is …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899) Life and Labour (Part 1.) ‘Shortly after leaving the grammar school my mother apprenticed me to the dressmaking trade with a local dressmaker’ (8) Many of the …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part One) Whilst many working-class autobiographers write centrally about the struggles of working life, talk of labour is ominously absent in John Edmonds’ …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Life & Labour (Part 2) “I had saved my own life and others and the whole colliery.” (48) Anthony’s most defining moments are seen through the heroic …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Life and Labour II ‘We were determined not to let it get us down, we had each other and the will to work as we proved …
Joe Ayre (b.1910): Life and Labour When researching and writing on Joe Ayre’s life I often find him lacking. His life lacked education, family, and support. One area …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Life & Labour (Part 1) The main theme of Anthony Errington’s memoir, Life & Labour, appears firstly in his title – Coals and Rails: The Autobiography of …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Life and Labour (Part 2, Social Mobility) In my introductory post I spoke briefly about RM Downer’s experiences of high society, and the opportunities she was given through her …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Life and Labour (Part 1) RM Downer’s memoir is heavily focused on her career as a dressmaker. As I have explored in a previous post, her purpose …
