Samuel Mountford (b. 1907) Life and Labour Labour is a very important aspect of Samuel Mountford’s life and links directly with his pride. From a very early age we …
A.W Todd: Work Pays. Leisure and Recreation In keeping with the work orientated themes, we come to the most revered day in the worker’s monthly calendar: pay day. And …
Rosa Bell (b.1902): Habits and Beliefs – Part 1: Entertainment From the 1870s onwards, working-class society saw a rise in the production and availability of mass entertainment. Organised sports and clubs to …
Politics, Protest and Class, James Ashley (b.1833) Politics in James Ashley’s memoir is not often spoke about, nor is it elaborated on. One would presume that because of this …
Joe Loftus (1914-1998): Habits, Culture & Beliefs Joe’s life was fuelled by a simple idea, which I have mentioned in posts ‘Life & Labour (Part 1)‘ and ‘An Introduction’: …
Joseph Terry (1816- 1889): Reading and Writing My warm thirsty enthusiastic mind drank in the sweetest and purest draughts of knowledge (Terry 33) James Hinton proposed that many of …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Habits, Culture and Belief RM Downer spent much of her free time with her employers. She was friends with many of her clients and while completing …
Adeline Hodges (b.1899): Habits, Culture & Belief (Part 2) Following on from my first post on ‘Habits, Culture & Belief’, I’d now like to take a closer look at how ‘leisure’ …
Habits and Beliefs: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. It would appear, through Harold Heslop’s memoir ‘From Tyne to Tone a Journey’ that as an adult Heslop took his fun very …
Doris Hunt (1900) : Habits, Culture and Belief ‘I have a few early memories going back to about 1903’ (p1). This quote is from the first sentence of Doris’s autobiography, …
