Miss P Wilson (b.1918-) Life and Labour “It was his proud boast that his children never wore clogs. . . I used to long for clogs, to go running …
Miss. P Wilson (b. 1918): An Introduction Miss P Wilson was born at 12 High Burton Street in January 1918, the tenth child of her family. Her memoirs predominantly …
Miss P. Wilson (b.1918-) Education and schooling M During her former years, Miss Wilson’s schooling life went through various degrees of change. Her education began at St Phillips Methodist …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 1) Figure 1 Household Maids for a London Family in the early 20th Century Throughout Westall’s memoir, work is a main theme …
Thomas Jordan (B.1892): Politics, Protest and Class Thomas Jordan grew up on a colliery in Usworth, County Durham and followed his father down the mines aged 14. Although in …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 2) To tell you the truth I was beginning to feel tired.’ (10) Lilian Westall started working from fourteen years of age. …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): War and Memory Part One Florence witnessed and lived through the effects of two world wars. Memories of war began early in Florence’s life as a child …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Life and Labour ‘For the first time in my life I had money problems to be explained to me and just how much money ran …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part One) Whilst many working-class autobiographers write centrally about the struggles of working life, talk of labour is ominously absent in John Edmonds’ …
Edward S. Humphries: Life and Labour Edward S. Humphries was a man who did not shy away from work. At the age of eleven his father insisted that …
