A.W Todd: Audience and Purpose
“In recording my memoirs of working as a mason, during these years in between the wars, I have endeavoured to relate the …
Doris Hunt (1900) : Life and Labour
During the 20th century it is evident that many of the working class worked to live. This is evident through Doris’s portrayal of …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Life and Labour (Part 1.)
‘Shortly after leaving the grammar school my mother apprenticed me to the dressmaking trade with a local dressmaker’ (8) Many of the …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Life & Labour
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, work dominated the lives of the labouring classes. Families worked long hours and had little …
Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Life & Labour
As a twentieth century writer, Hymie Fagan writes about a period in which the nature of employment had changed since the nineteenth …
Kathleen Hilton-Foord (1903-1908): Life & Labour
Changing policies in the early twentieth century with regard to compulsory education, such as The 1902 Balfour Education Act, meant that unlike children …