Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family
friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes
and ears of the community, and his genetic legacy has supposedly
passed into the lineage of housewives. This collection of folk
tales about milkmen covers the history of the job and the milkman's
everyday experience. The book is structured by the milkman's
working day. It starts with the alarm-clock and ends with the
milkman returning home in search of sustenance and tender loving
care. The book is less about changes in the dairy industry and more
about the work experiences of the people who have delivered milk.
Many milkmen are featured: Chris Frankland delivered over eight
million pints before he retired at seventy-four; Alistair Maclean
drove two million miles across the north coast of Scotland in fifty
years; and Tony Fowler, an award-winning Leicestershire milkman,
helped to put over fifty people in prison. For more than thirty
years the author has collected milkman stories through oral
testimony, newspaper archives, anecdotes, diaries, books and more
formal interviews. Praise for the author: Barnsley: A Study in
Football, 1953-59 (with Ian Alister, Crowberry 1981) 'A rare
example of folk history . . . a work thankfully free of sick
parrots, bulging nets and exclusive revelations.' (The Yorkshire
Post) 'riveting, dreamy, passionate, valuable and stuff of a past
era which must not be forgotten . . . I read it in an all-night
session.' (Frank Keating, Guardian) Cricket's Strangest Matches
(Robson 1990) 'Ward has an eye for the unusual and nicely dry
style.' (Sunday Correspondent) Three Sides of the Mersey (with
Rogan Taylor and John Williams, Robson, 1993) '. . . a labour of
love. Built from copious interviews with players, club staff, and
fans going back to the Twenties, it provides a permanent record of
a 32-part series broadcast on Radio City last season. It's a
compendious portrait of Liverpool's passion for football, and an
endearing social history along the way.' (Independent) Armed with a
Football (Crowberry 1994) 'A riveting read for the maverick fan'
(Independent) Kicking and Screaming (with Rogan Taylor, Robson,
1995) 'Borrowing the straightforward oral history technique
favoured by Studs Terkel and Lynn MacDonald, the authors assemble
the memories of players, managers and fans into a mosaic from which
an affectionate portrait of the English game emerges, with all its
faults and virtues.' (Guardian) The Day of the Hillsborough
Disaster (with Rogan Taylor and Tim Newburn, Liverpool University
Press, 1995) 'In many ways Taylor, Ward and Newburn have produced
one of the best oral histories ever produced.' (Oral History) 'It
is the most dignified and respectful of memorials to the dead,
dedicated to those who must still struggle with the consequences of
the disaster, and it never succombs to the morbid or maudlin.'
(Observer) 'It is the most extraordinary account of what happened .
. . Their book is gripping and extremely moving. After such
tragedy, this book is cathartic.' (FourFourTwo) I'm on Me Mobile
(with Anton Rippon, 2000) 'One of the best came at Gloucester
magistrates court in January 1994, when the defendant's phone rang.
'Can't talk now,' he said. 'I'm in the dock.' (Guardian) 'One of
the things that was in it was a woman saying "hang on a minute,
I'll just get out my handbook and look under womb".' (Amazon)
Football Nation (with John Williams, Bloomsbury, 2009) 'Based on a
dazzling array of largely oral evidence and written with a deeply
attractive mixture of authority and humanity, it offers a
bewitching, kaleidoscopic, alternative history of our national game
since the war . . . Football is so often its own worst enemy, but
Ward and Williams will remind many jaundiced readers why they fell
in love with it.' (History Today) The Birth Father's Tale (BAAF,
2012) 'Very personal account of Ward's search for his son, more
than thirty years after the machinery of adoption removed him from
Ward's life.' (Therapy Today)
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