03140nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-55084-3 DE-He213 20251030112622.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240711s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031550843 978-3-031-55084-3 10.1007/978-3-031-55084-3 doi DA1-995 HBJD1 bicssc HIS015000 bisacsh NHD 1DD thema Ball, Rebecca. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80333 A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 [electronic resource] / by Rebecca Ball. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 281 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. 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. Stanley 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. . Great Britain History. 66701 History, Modern. 70351 Social history. Collective memory. 68201 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 Modern History. 70352 Social History. Memory Studies. 68202 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031550836 Printed edition: 9783031550850 Printed edition: 9783031550867 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55084-3 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 61494 61494