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This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history
of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education
within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a
rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in
vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of
classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar
London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local
communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change.
Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty
and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it
provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about
education and society, showing how the same concerns were framed a
century ago. -- .
'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History
Magazine It 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. Class 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 rich, authentic history are the twists
and turns of the girls' lives from childhood to beyond, from their
happiest times to the most heart-breaking of their sorrows. A
compelling social history, this intimate reconstruction of
working-class life in 1930s Britain is a haunting and emotional
account of a bygone age.
This innovative collection draws on original research to explore
the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their
representatives across a range of European contexts; from
democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist
Italy. The authors pay close attention to the various relationships
and dynamics between parents and the state, showing that the
different parties were defined not solely by coercion or
manipulation, but also by collaboration and negotiation. Parents
were not passive recipients of government direction: rituals and
cultures of parenting could both affirm and undermine state
politics. Readers will find this collection crucial to
understanding family life and the role of the state during a period
when both underwent significant change.
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ___ 'A moving microhistory of
working-class girlhood' BBC History Magazine ___ It 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. Class 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
rich, authentic history are the twists and turns of the girls'
lives from childhood to beyond, from their happiest times to the
most heart-breaking of their sorrows. A compelling social history,
this intimate reconstruction of working-class life in 1930s Britain
is a haunting and emotional account of a bygone age. ___ Praise for
Class of '37 'A treasure trove of childhood' - i paper 'A
fascinating account' - Bolton News 'We're used to Mass Observation
revealing adult treasures, but to have them from these
irrepressible children is doubly rewarding. An engrossing and
gently heart-breaking insight into this chatter of still lives
before everything changed, and a wonderful rear-view glimpse of
their vanishing world' - Simon Garfield 'Characters [...] shine
brightly from every page' - Daily Mail
This innovative collection draws on original research to explore
the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their
representatives across a range of European contexts; from
democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist
Italy. The authors pay close attention to the various relationships
and dynamics between parents and the state, showing that the
different parties were defined not solely by coercion or
manipulation, but also by collaboration and negotiation. Parents
were not passive recipients of government direction: rituals and
cultures of parenting could both affirm and undermine state
politics. Readers will find this collection crucial to
understanding family life and the role of the state during a period
when both underwent significant change.
The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British
twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the
general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one
million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten
adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound.
Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by
Durham's miners and their families. She investigates collective
values and behavior, focusing particularly on the tensions between
identities based around class and occupation, and the rival
identities that could cut across the creation of a cohesive
community. Highlighting the continuing importance of differences
due to gender, age, religion, poverty, and individual hopes and
aspirations, she nevertheless finds that in 1926, despite such
differences, the Durham coalfield continued to display the
solidarity for which miners were famed.
In response, Barron argues that the very concept of the "mining
community" needs to be reassessed. Rather than consisting of an
homogeneous occupational identity, she suggests that the essence of
community lay in its ability to subsume and integrate other
categories of identity. A collective consciousness was further
grounded in a shared historical narrative that had to be
continually reinforced.
It was the strength of such local solidarities that enabled both an
exemplary regional response to the strike, and the ability to
conceptualize such action within the wider framework of the
national union. The 1926 Miners' Lockout provides crucial insights
into issues of collective identity and collective action,
illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation
within working-class communities and cultures.
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