A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic SlumManchester University Press, 15.08.1997 - 218 Seiten With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship. |
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In their small corner Page | 1 |
To business | 7 |
Home and hearth | 19 |
Janie | 38 |
A fearful joy | 47 |
The food of love | 52 |
Fire and food | 71 |
Low class and no class | 78 |
Fears | 110 |
Ventures | 125 |
Travelling men | 142 |
Superstition | 148 |
Lovely war | 155 |
Skool | 160 |
Song of apprentices | 180 |
Class strugglers | 192 |
Sins of the flesh | 93 |
Christians | 102 |
To the egress | 201 |
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