Jack Vallance (b.1914) – Education and Schooling
Although it is evident in Jack’s writing that he is literate, there is very little mention of his schooling and further education. …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Life and Labour
For many working-class people, much like Jack, schooling was cut short in order to start work. As he notes in his memoir, …
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 …
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 …
Annie Ford (1920 onwards): Introduction
‘[A]lthough we are better off by far than our Mothers and Fathers, we seem to have lost something. Shall we say “Lost …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Life and Labour
I could not get any settled job. I helped my father in the post office, went with telegrams and eventually learnt to …