Free Boots & Back to Backs - Memories of a 1950's Childhood (eBook)

Memories of a 1950's Childhood

Maureen Harvey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
288 Seiten
John Blake (Verlag)
978-1-78606-978-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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'.The perfect book for readers of nostalgic historical non-fiction, about life in Britain as the country emerged from the grim years of the Second World War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Birmingham • Bombsites • History • Local History • Maureen Harvey • Nostalgia • post war
• ISBN-10: 1-78606-978-4 / 1786069784
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78606-978-8 / 9781786069788