Fermin Rocker (b.1907.) : An Introduction Fermin Rocker (22 December 1907 – 18 October 2004) Fermin Rocker, born on the 22nd December 1907 in the East End of …
Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): An Introduction As soon as I saw Norah Fearon Knight’s entry for her memoir in the Burnett et al The Autobiography of the Working …
Matthew Grimes (b. 1885): An Introduction Self-confessed ‘rebel’ Matthew Grimes’ account of his life is fascinating on both a personal and a wider historical level, offering us a …
Ken Hayter (b.1940): An Introduction ‘Liverpool: a city where everybody seemed to know everybody else, where nobody seemed to have any money, but everyone seemed to be …
Hymie Fagan: Biographical Entry 261 FAGAN, Hymie, ‘An Autobiography’, TS, pp.154 (c.68,000 words). Extract published in Childhood Memories, recorded by some Socialist men and women in …
Letitia Simpson (1926-2012): War and Memory This memoir goes through only the Second World War in comparison to the other memoirs from the Burnett collection which go through …
Annie Ford, born 1920, Biographical entry 2:291 FORD, Annie, Untitled, TS, pp.7 (c.2,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1920 in the Collyhurst district of Manchester. Father, a …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968):Life and Labour Part 2 ”Daddy and I proved an excellent “married couple,” both from our own point of view as well as from that of our …
Daisy Cowper (1890 – 1985): Reading & Writing Writing is something Daisy had considerable competency with, as evidenced by the sheer volume of text in her memoir. She writes with …
