Class of '37 by Claire Langhamer (Hardback Book)

Name: Class of '37 by Claire Langhamer (Hardback Book)
Brand: John Blake Publishing Ltd

John Blake Publishing Ltd

'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. They tell of cobbled streets and crowded homes; the Coronation festivities and holidays to Blackpool; laughter and fun alongside poverty and hardship. They are destined for the cotton mill but they dream of being film stars.\nClass of '37 uses the writing of these young girls, as collected by the research organisation Mass Observation, to rediscover this lost world, transporting readers back in time to a smoky industrial town in an era before the introduction of a Welfare State, where once again the clouds of war were beginning to gather. Woven within this\n\nClass of '37\n\u2018A wonderful rear-view glimpse of [a] vanishing world\u2019 \u2013 Simon Garfield. Longlisted for the RSL Onda\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is availabl;