Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Education and Schooling
Nora was lucky enough to stay in education until she was in her late teens. She wrote about her schooling in a …
May Rainer’s Education and Schooling (b.1909)
May Rainer writes about moving from a busy school in London to a slow school in the countryside, and finally to a …
Jack Vallance (b.1914) – Education and Schooling
Although it is evident in Jack’s writing that he is literate, there is very little mention of his schooling and further education. …
George Mockford (1826-1899): Education and Schooling
Recollecting his childhood, George Mockford writes about his short time at a dame’s school. These schools were noted to be extremely small …
Robert Ward (B. 1097): Education and Schooling
The theme of Education and Schooling is very prominent in Robert Ward’s ‘A Lancashire Childhood’, and arguably could be the main theme’. …
Wilfred Middlebrook (b.1899): Education and Schooling
During his childhood, Wilfred attended a number of schools. In 1903 and 1904, Wilfred’s first two schools were ‘old church schools’ and …
Isaac Edward Brown, 1880-1974: Education and Schooling
“Not so very distant in point of years, but ages ago in many other respects” (1) Within the above quotation from Isaac …
A. Gordon James (b.1885): Education and Schooling
‘When I listen on my wireless set to the imaginative and yet factual lessons to schools given nowadays, I realise what a …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Education and Schooling (Part 2.)
‘I recall an early occasion of telling my father of our being given the choice of learning a foreign language & that …