Hester Barron, Claire Langhamer

Gebundenes Buch

Class of '37

'A wonderful rear-view glimpse of [a] vanishing world' - Simon Garfield. Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize

Beschreibung

'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History MagazineIt is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them.

Autor

Hester Barron (Author) Hester Barron is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. She teaches and writes about working-class life, childhood, schooling and education. Her first book, The 1926 Miners' Lockout, is a history of the coalfield communities of Durham, where she grew up. She now lives in the South Downs. Claire Langhamer (Author) Claire Langhamer is Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Trustee of the Mass Observation Archive. Her work is about ordinary people's feelings and experiences; her books include The English in Love. She grew up in Yorkshire, studied in Lancashire and now lives in Brighton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 144mm x 224mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781789464054
• ISBN-10: 1789464056
• Artikelnr.: 62216084