02816nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153072001800165072002300183072002000206100007600226245009600302250001800398264008500416300003200501336002600533337002600559338003600585347002400621505020600645520110500851650002801956650002101984650002002005650002302025650003602048650002002084650002002104650002002124710003402144773002602178776003602204776003602240776003602276856004602312978-3-031-55084-3DE-He21320251030112622.0cr nn 008mamaa240711s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315508437 a10.1007/978-3-031-55084-32doi 4aDA1-995 7aHBJD12bicssc 7aHIS0150002bisacsh 7aNHDx1DD2thema1 aBall, Rebecca.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut12aA Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945h[electronic resource] /cby Rebecca Ball.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aX, 281 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 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.  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. . 0aGreat BritainxHistory. 0aHistory, Modern. 0aSocial history. 0aCollective memory.14aHistory of Britain and Ireland.24aModern History.24aSocial History.24aMemory Studies.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303155083608iPrinted edition:z978303155085008iPrinted edition:z978303155086740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55084-3