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Jean Court: Life and Labour

‘All the ironing, washing up and pastry making were done on the wooden kitchen table, scrubbed every day until it was almost …

Edna Bold (B.1904): Home & Family

“Edna Bold was born into a ‘respectable’ working-class family in Beswick, Manchester, in 1904, neither rich nor poor, but hard-working, somewhat narrow …