Online research project on Working-Class #Autobiography by final-year English students @LJMU. Visit our blog for #memoirs + resources #writinglives
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I've just had the call. I've refused entry. This is an interesting phone call.
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A glimpse of some of the work by @sbriercliffe for @BCLivingMuseum ‘Forging Ahead’ project - new book out next month! ‘Never-before-seen pictures show how the Black Country looked during the post-war boom’ birminghammail.co.uk/black-c…
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Also on our Dickens MA blog, you can see posts from some of our past students on their research and experience. First up is David Stockman discussing what the Dickens MA meant for him: dickensma.wordpress.com/2020… 1/
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Did you know we hold over 10,000 diaries of everyday folk in the Great Diary Project #archives @BishopsgateInst? Volumes & stories that might not find a home elsewhere. Here’s some lovely diaries waiting for the magic touch of our in-house Diary Guru Dr Polly North!
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Our new issue is now published, with articles on agrarian capitalism, convict corpses, sodomite conspiracies, immoral seamen, female music students, and English radicalism!
Read all the new articles here: tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/c…
ALT Cultural and Social history table of contents vol 18, issue 2
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22 June, 8pm: free online concert with performances of millworkers' poems and songs, come join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-facto…
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#RT @BrunelSpecColl: RT @Writing__Lives: Frank William Bealey, Prof of Politics at LSE asked his secretary to type out his mother Nora's memoir!
Those were the days 😜
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#RT @BrunelSpecColl: RT @Writing__Lives: Entry on Lucy Luck in the Bibliography of Working Class Autobiography edited by Burnett, Vincent and Mayall. The copy of her memoir is held by @BrunelSpecColl writinglives.org/biographica…
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Madleine Linford reviews the film "Sons of the Empire" in the Manchester Guardian on 25th May 1917. " I t is a curious fact that in picture-houses, commonly considered the lightest and least serious form of amusement, there is far the greatest evidence of the shadow of war.
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Important statement from RHS on closures @LSBU and elsewhere. Thank you for the support.
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A message from our patron to all supporters of the SAVE THE BETHNAL GREEN MULBERRY campaign following Friday's joyous High Court verdict that it cannot be dug up.
"A great cause for rejoicing…..What wonderful news!
With love, Judi"
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We are delighted to announce the extension of our long-term partnership with the @britishlibrary. Since 2011 we have digitised over 42 million newspaper pages together, and we look forward to publishing millions more. Read more here: bit.ly/3vgMRpO #BritishLibrary
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It seems workplace parties have been around for a while! In 1866, Old Gang Smelt Mills hosted a tea party with brass bands and amusements for their workers and families, to celebrate improved working conditions [ZLB]. #HBAHHospitality
ALT Printed poster: The Old Gang Tea Festival to Commemorate the improving condition of The Mines, Will be held at the Old Gang Smelt Mills on Thursday September 27th 1866 For the miners, with their wives, and all who are employed upon the field.
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Two of this project's team @bronterre1 & @jenniferballads have combined for this event. Shoddy Court regulars may remember discussing Stafford's songs in our first series. Here's your chance to hear them sung!
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Check out all these amazing speakers (ft. yours truly) at "Telling Small Stories, Telling Big Stories: Family History Workshop Event" on 16th & 17th June eventbrite.co.uk/e/telling-s… @EventbriteUK
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Good evening everyone! I found a first-edition copy of 'Jesus and the Otherworld' which A. Gordon James had written and published in 1914.
This will be making an appearance in my final blog, which will be live tomorrow!
'It was myself who got into trouble as a tom boy and ripstitch’
@hampton1895 introduces Nora Hampton, born Dudley 1895 and her memoir of a happy childhood and early working life as an uncertified teacher.
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'I suppose we were working class although my dad was his own master. He had worked exceedingly hard to become so. We had enough of the best food... home-made jam...plenty of oranges and apples'
Memories of a comfortable childhood
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Great discussion by @hampton1895 of Nora Hampton's recollections of a close-knit family on their way up
