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Humble Origins - All Roads Lead to Halifax Ebook

ByMike Hales

Here are stories of two families migrating and marrying and just about making their way, from the 1860s in agricultural Suffolk to the 1960s in a declining West Riding mill town. An estate labourer's first son, a harness maker's fourth, an itinerant miner's illegitimate daughter, a fish porter's fourth; a trawlerman's daughter 'surrounded with love', a clog repairer's son who has a grim time as a commando in the Adriatic; and the son of a mill girl and a bus driver who becomes the first in his family to leave his home town for study not as a member of the labouring poor. In the first and last chapters, the question is raised: what are humble origins, and in what way may they matter? This is the first of three volumes exploring this, in different times and modes.

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Publication Date
Apr 21, 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780244120481
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Mike Hales

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Format
PDF

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