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The Classic Slum Robert Roberts

The Classic Slum von Robert Roberts

The Classic Slum Robert Roberts


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Zusammenfassung

Describes the period of the author's childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degradation, and despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

The Classic Slum Zusammenfassung

The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century Robert Roberts

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

Über Robert Roberts

Robert Roberts was an expert on adult literacy. He died in 1979.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Class Structure
2 Possessions
3 Manners and Morals
4 Governors, Pastors and Masters
5 The Common Scene
6 Food, Drink and Physic
7 Alma Mater
8 Culture
9 The Great Release
10 High Days and After

Appendices
1 Conducted Tour
2 Snuffy
3 Bronze Mushrooms

Select Bibliography
Index

Illustrations
The photographs, which have not been published before, were taken around the early 1900s by a Worsley man, Samuel Coulthurst, who went about Salford dressed as a rag and bone merchant with his camera concealed on a handcart.

1. Corner shop
2. A muffler-white, if possible, for the Lord's day
3. Some were too poor to buy at the old clothes shops
4. General dealer
5. The clothiers
6. Women of the time I
7. Women of the time II
8. Water for the wheel: a knife and scissors grinder
9. Hawkers at rest
10. 'The short way out of Manchester'
11. A barrel organ called Tuesdays and Saturdays
12. Theatre by the market
13. Boys haggling at the hen market

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002110298
9780140136241
014013624X
The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century Robert Roberts
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Penguin Books Ltd
1990-07-26
288
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