Category: 1930s Britain
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Salford Housing, 1970: Image via Getty Images One of the key aspects of my research is about the meaning of home. Homes are often idealised spaces: in 1933, for example, the Charity Organisation Quarterly declared that home was ‘the place where humankind can be shy, sensitive, reserved, proud.’[1] This ideal can be seen through the…
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A couple talking under a railway arch in the Elephant and Castle district of south London, January 1949. Image via Getty Images Please be aware that this post concerns some discussions of sex and violence How do memoirs help us understand attitudes and experiences relating to sexuality in the past? On the one hand memoirs…
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A family group admire the lit Christmas Tree in Church Street after a fresh fall of snow circa December 1954. Photo by Liverpool Post and Echo Archive/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images We are perhaps used to seeing idealised images of Christmases past, as the tradition of decorating trees, exchanging cards and gifts was popularised in Britain…
Living on Poverty Street: Working-Class Memoirs and Life-Writing in Britain, 1918-1979 