Working Class Memoir

Mary Howitt (1888-1983): Purpose and Audience

‘For me there was no prouder title, nothing I wanted more than to be a writing man’ – (190) After a lifetime …

This entry focuses on will focus on John Urie’s professional career as a printer, publisher and photographer in the early years of …

Humble beginnings now for Todd. Whilst some of the previous blogs have looked at stops along the way in Todd’s memoir, it …

John Urie first saw the light of Paisley in 1820. His life and autobiography “Reminiscences of eighty years by John Urie” (published …

Following on from my previous post, where I discussed Norah Fearon Knight’s experience of leisure and recreation growing up in a large, …

Leisure and recreation is a key topic in ‘Nostalgia’, the unpublished memoir of Norah Fearon Knight, which you can read in full …

I was now a frightned [frightened] boy, and I felt this was [not] the end but the beginning of more trouble’ (Oates, …

Until people read something like this they will never know what went on when workhouses were in use, and the Poor Law …

What a peculiar world this is. Here was I living in the prettiest institution, in beautiful surroundings, yet working and living with …