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200 12$aA Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 /$fby Rebecca Ball
205   $a1st ed. 2024.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024.
215   $a1 online resource (273 pages)
300   $aIncludes index.
311 08$a9783031550836 
327   $a1. Introduction -- 2.Family Relationships -- 3. Death -- 4. Absence -- 5. Education -- 6. Employment -- 7. Housing -- 8. Leisure and Pastimes -- 9.Consumption of Necessities and Vices -- 10.Conclusion.
330   $aStanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was ?an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs?. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two world wars. Despite this, Stanley assumed that his life story would be of little interest to most readers, as he had not achieved great fame or any notable accolades. This book argues that this is exactly why historians should focus on such life stories, as there is much to be gained by focusing on memories of ?ordinary average lives?, as they can expand our knowledge of the past, often revealing firsthand experiences that have been excluded from the historical record. This book does not intend to be a general social history of the working class. Rather, it is a work of memory, drawing upon a microhistory methodology to examine how a sample of one hundred working-class autobiographers remembered and wrote about living through years that were punctuated by two worldwide conflicts and a global economic depression. .
606   $aGreat Britain$xHistory
606   $aHistory, Modern
606   $aSocial history
606   $aCollective memory
606   $aHistory of Britain and Ireland
606   $aModern History
606   $aSocial History
606   $aMemory Studies
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615  0$aHistory, Modern.
615  0$aSocial history.
615  0$aCollective memory.
615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland.
615 24$aModern History.
615 24$aSocial History.
615 24$aMemory Studies.
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