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Class of '37: ‘A wonderful rear-view glimpse of [a] vanishing world’ – Simon Garfield. Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize - Hardcover

Barron, Hester; Langhamer, Claire

 
9781789464054: Class of '37: ‘A wonderful rear-view glimpse of [a] vanishing world’ – Simon Garfield. Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789464056 ISBN 13: 9781789464054
Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History Magazine


It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of cobbled streets and crowded homes; the Coronation festivities and holidays to Blackpool; laughter and fun alongside poverty and hardship. They are destined for the cotton mill but they dream of being film stars.

Class of '37 uses the writing of these young girls, as collected by the research organisation Mass Observation, to rediscover this lost world, transporting readers back in time to a smoky industrial town in an era before the introduction of a Welfare State, where once again the clouds of war were beginning to gather. Woven within this rich, authentic history are the twists and turns of the girls' lives from childhood to beyond, from their happiest times to the most heart-breaking of their sorrows.

A compelling social history, this intimate reconstruction of working-class life in 1930s Britain is a haunting and emotional account of a bygone age.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hester Barron is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. She teaches and writes about working-class life, childhood, schooling and education. Her first book, The 1926 Miners' Lockout, is a history of the coalfield communities of Durham, where she grew up. She now lives in the South Downs.

Claire Langhamer is Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Trustee of the Mass Observation Archive. Her work is about ordinary people's feelings and experiences; her books include The English in Love. She grew up in Yorkshire, studied in Lancashire and now lives in Brighton.

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Verlag
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789464056
ISBN 13 
9781789464054
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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