William Webb (1830-1919) – Education & Schooling The education of the working-classes during the mid-nineteenth century, especially of those individuals residing in rural areas, was known to be of …
Education and Schooling, James Ashley (b.1833) Within James Ashley’s memoir there is little evidence to suggest the type of experience he had during his time in education, as …
Margaret Watson (b.1907) Reading and Writing “I was due to leave school in three weeks as I would be fourteen years of age. Bessie suggested Domestic Service. I …
George Gregory (b.1888): An Introduction ‘It cannot be said that I was privileged in any special way in the home in which I first saw the light …
Minnie Frisby (b.1877): Politics, Protests and Class In Memories, Minnie does not discuss any political tendencies she or her family had. Instead Minnie focuses her memoir with references to …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Reading and Writing ‘If wet in the afternoon and we had to stay in, we would have word-making, letters cut out in cardboard, but we …
Thomas Waddicor (b.1906): Education and Schooling One could leave school at the end of the term following one’s fourteenth birthday.’ (p.15) The theme of education is not an …
Education and Schooling: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. By the time, Harold Heslop was born into the small mining village of New Hunwick, his father had acquired both of his …
George Gregory (b. 1888): Education and Schooling. Despite being born to illiterate parents in a village which existed almost solely to house coal miners, George had an insatiable appetite …
H J Harris (b.1903): Autobiography, Class and Schooling ‘I am willing to give you any explanation of how Charity Schools were run, when there was no social security and NOBODY …
