Frank Prevett (b.1904): War and Memory At the commencement of the First World War, Frank and his family were living in the village of Withyham. Frank admits that …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899) Life and Labour (Part 2.) ‘…having been seen on the public platform, I became known to a wider circle of men & women in public life who …
Joe Ayre (b.1910): Habits, Cultures and Beliefs Joe’s extraordinary life took him across Britain, Canada, and America. Knowing this one would assume he would have had the opportunity to …
Charles Whiten Sanderson (1906-1990): War and Memory Part One. ‘Joiners, bricklayers, miners, stockingers – all transformed into soldiers overnight, all under the great delusion that it would be over by Christmas, …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Habits, Culture & Belief ‘There was never any problem to find something to do. There were about four boys in our gang… It was easy to …
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 …
Life and Labour (part 2) Thomas Maclauchlan 1888 In this second section of the Life and Labour blog, we will be exploring Thomas’s other work responsibilities outside of the mining …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Fun and Festivities – Part Two Club Day! who can describe what the annual re occurrence of that day meant to young and old at Berkeley! The first Wednesday …
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’ …
