Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Home and Family
Harry grew up in Islington, London, on the busy and bustling Holloway Road, or ‘The Hollow’ as named by its residents. He …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Politics, Protest & Class
From a very young age, Harry was involved in politics. His cousin, Fred, persuaded his parents to send him to the local …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Education & Schooling
Harry began his schooling at the age of four and ended at thirteen. Due to the reclamation of their house in Stoke …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Purpose and Audience
‘I have written it down, just as it flowed. Nothing added, nothing taken away. No preservatives, no colouring matter. The boosing and …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Habits, Culture & Belief
Harry writes of how being in the communist youth party changed his habits from quitting smoking to taking up physical activity. …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Life & Labour
Harry began his working life at the age of 13 after attaining a leaving certificate from his school Headmaster. As mentioned in …
Harry Young (B.1901-1996): An Introduction
‘(T)his is the story of 60 years of a very eventful life in the most eventful period of social history spanning the …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – An Introduction
Jack Vallance’s personal accounts of boyhood, adolescence and working-class life as an adult demonstrate his resilience as a child of war …