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Children waving flags on VE Day, 8 May 1945. ‘In bomb scarred Battersea, the little Londoners celebrated V E Day among the ruins of their homes’. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images) Eighty years ago today, Britain celebrated a hard-won victory against Nazi regime following six long years of…
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Shoplifting: woman stealing a tube of toothpaste, 1962 (Photo by RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images) I recently wrote an article for The Conversation on the history of shoplifting, which has been a research interest of mine for some time now. In the article, I drew on was the memoirs written by women who had been…
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Ships and shipping brought glamour, excitement and opportunity to port cities, but experiences of travelling and emigration did not always live up to expectations. I have been thinking a lot about the experiences of emigration recently, partly because of the release of my new co-authored book on child emigration from the North-West of England to…
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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…
Living on Poverty Street: Working-Class Memoirs and Life-Writing in Britain, 1918-1979 