Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs.…mehr
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Part 1 The Labouring Classes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Anonymous Navvy*'Autobiography of a Navvy' Macmillan's Magazine Vol. v 1861-2.; Chapter 3 Farm Labourer*From unpublished autobiography. Tom Mullins; Chapter 4 Straw-Plait Worker*From 'A Little of my Life' London Mercury edited by J. C. Squire Vol. XIII No. 76 November 1925-April 1926. Lucy Luck; Chapter 5 Weaver*From The diary of John Ward of Clitheroe weaver 1860-64. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1953. Vol. 105 1954 pp. 161 et seq. John Ward (O'neil); Chapter 6 Sweet-Boiler*From 'Before my Time' Granada Television interview 1963. William Luby; Chapter 7 Coal-Miner*Unpublished autobiography. Thomas Jordan; Chapter 8 Coal-Miner*From These Poor Hands. The Autobiography of a Miner working in South Wales Gollancz 1939. B. L. Coombes; Chapter 9 Shop Assistant*From One Woman's Story unpublished autobiography. Winifred Griffiths; Chapter 10 Munitions-Factory Worker*Unpublished autobiographical extract. Rosina Whyatt; Part 2 Domestic Servants; Chapter 11 Introduction; Chapter 12 Footman*From Diary of William Tayler Footman 1837 edited by Dorothy Wise with notes by Ann Cox-Johnson St Marylebone Society Publications Group 1962. William Tayler's Diary is the property of Mr Richard Willoughby Bartlett and the editor Dorothy Wise acknowledges his permission to reproduce. William Tayler; Chapter 13 House-Steward*From From Hall-Boy to House-Steward Edward Arnold & Co. 1925. Lanceley William; Chapter 14 Chef*From Royal Chef. Recollections of Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary as told to Joan Powe William Kimber 1954 and 1974. Gabriel Tschumi; Chapter 15 Butler*'A Butler's View of Man-Service' The Nineteenth Century: a Monthly Review January-June 1892 Vol. XXXI 1892. John Robinson; Chapter 16 Page-Boy*The extract which describes his life as a page-boy at the Almacks Bridge Club London in 1904 is from
Part 1 The Labouring Classes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Anonymous Navvy*'Autobiography of a Navvy' Macmillan's Magazine Vol. v 1861-2.; Chapter 3 Farm Labourer*From unpublished autobiography. Tom Mullins; Chapter 4 Straw-Plait Worker*From 'A Little of my Life' London Mercury edited by J. C. Squire Vol. XIII No. 76 November 1925-April 1926. Lucy Luck; Chapter 5 Weaver*From The diary of John Ward of Clitheroe weaver 1860-64. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1953. Vol. 105 1954 pp. 161 et seq. John Ward (O'neil); Chapter 6 Sweet-Boiler*From 'Before my Time' Granada Television interview 1963. William Luby; Chapter 7 Coal-Miner*Unpublished autobiography. Thomas Jordan; Chapter 8 Coal-Miner*From These Poor Hands. The Autobiography of a Miner working in South Wales Gollancz 1939. B. L. Coombes; Chapter 9 Shop Assistant*From One Woman's Story unpublished autobiography. Winifred Griffiths; Chapter 10 Munitions-Factory Worker*Unpublished autobiographical extract. Rosina Whyatt; Part 2 Domestic Servants; Chapter 11 Introduction; Chapter 12 Footman*From Diary of William Tayler Footman 1837 edited by Dorothy Wise with notes by Ann Cox-Johnson St Marylebone Society Publications Group 1962. William Tayler's Diary is the property of Mr Richard Willoughby Bartlett and the editor Dorothy Wise acknowledges his permission to reproduce. William Tayler; Chapter 13 House-Steward*From From Hall-Boy to House-Steward Edward Arnold & Co. 1925. Lanceley William; Chapter 14 Chef*From Royal Chef. Recollections of Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary as told to Joan Powe William Kimber 1954 and 1974. Gabriel Tschumi; Chapter 15 Butler*'A Butler's View of Man-Service' The Nineteenth Century: a Monthly Review January-June 1892 Vol. XXXI 1892. John Robinson; Chapter 16 Page-Boy*The extract which describes his life as a page-boy at the Almacks Bridge Club London in 1904 is from
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