Education and Schooling ‘Not a bad motto to carry through life in this day and age’ Hughes’s memories of schools are never too far removed …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): Life and Labour ‘Towards the end of November, I was watching the “Situations Vacant” column again. “Shorthand-typist Wanted,” the ad.said, plus the usual additional requirements …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Purpose & Audience But if I had ever thought I might have written all this, I would have kept a diary Martha Martin, ‘The Ups …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): War and Memory ‘Everbody’s war, that had been threatening for so long, actually broke out a few months later. It still had little impact on …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Education and Schooling-Part 4 ‘Was this his last and final attempt to break me. How could any human being so cruel. If this was my school …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912) Education and Schooling Blog: Part 2 “Fashion prescribed long buttoned or laced up boots and fastening with a major difficulty so school provided practice pieces of leathered joined …
Researching Writing Lives After completing the ‘Prison Voices’ project in my second year at university, I was excited at the prospect of being part of …
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 b.1887) 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 …
Hilda Salusbury (1906-1993): Life Writing, Class and Identity Class status is not something which Hilda goes into great depth about during the course of her memoir. She tells the reader …
