Free boots & back-to-backs : memories of a 1950s childhood
Harvey, Maureen, 1946-2018
Books, Manuscripts
Born in 1948, Maureen Harvey was brought up in a poor working-class household in Birmingham at a time when the city was still a major manufacturing centre. Despite her family's poor circumstances, the author recalls a childhood filled with family pride and neighbourliness; of making do with whatever came to hand; of being thankful for small mercies. This was an age where the deserving poor could write to the Daily Mail and receive a pair of serviceable boots free of charge; when as a small child Maureen would forage for coal and wood for fuel. The industrial working classes really were 'poor, but proud and honest'.
Main title:
Free boots & back-to-backs : memories of a 1950s childhood / Maureen Harvey with Charlotte Browne.
Author:
Harvey, Maureen, 1946-, authorBrowne, Charlotte, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake, 2018.
Collation:
xiv, 274 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781786068675 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.49085092942.49085B.HAR942.49920HAR
LC class:
HN398.B5
Local class:
942.49
Language:
English
Subject:
Harvey, Maureen, 1946- -- Childhood and youthHistoryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-Birmingham (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryWorking class -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryWorking class -- England -- Birmingham -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryHistoryBirmingham (England) -- Social conditionsWorking class -- England -- BirminghamNineteen fifties
BRN:
2195211