Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952): Life & Labour Life and Labour sums up Albert Mansbridge very well. ‘His promising academic career stopped abruptly at the age of fourteen when he …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968) : Politics,Protest and Class. ”A letter had been written to the Lieut.Colonel H.K.Gordon, who had endeavoured to interest the King in the blunder of the condemned …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Biographical Entry Born in Portsmouth in the first decade of the 20th century. Father a stoker in the Royal Navy. One of 7 children …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968): Education and Schooling ”We were kept practically entirely on a diet of porridge, bread and margarine, boiled rabbit and potatoes. The dormitories were unheated and …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Education and Schooling Florence’s education is not a prominent theme in her memoir ‘Seventh Child’ and we are barely given an insight into her own …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968): Researching Writing Lives What a privilege it has been to be part of Writing Lives Collaborative Research Project on Working-Class autobiography. I have been on …
Alexander Howison (b.1795): Reading & Writing Alexander omits any discussion of his reading and writing habits completely from his autobiography. He was much more interested in presenting his …
Patricia Saville (B.1933) Life and Labour: Part 2 “I must have stayed at the C.T.O for another 18 months to two years as it was here that I caught first …
Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Researching Writing Lives “I shall have had a wonderful life, much love, some sadness, but oh, so very much laughter” (5.7) I have thoroughly enjoyed …
Patricia Saville (B.1933): Education and Schooling “I started school from this address, Stroud Green I think it was called, I loved going to school as I suppose it …
