Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): An Introduction Francesca’s thoughts went back down the years to Harting Coombe Farm, near Rogate where she lived with her parents, her sister and …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Life and Labour – Part One On the farm 1921 – 1922 I was still the same boy that I was when [I was] very young. A happy …
Isaac Gordon (b.1927): Life and Labour, part one “It must be that they get cheap labour from Jamaica, and if you’re any trouble they send you back.” (13) Isaac …
Olive Doris Gold (1897-1977): Life & Labour For the most part women did ‘women’s work’, i.e. low-paid work. The sexual division of labour therefore split the working class along …