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  • Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to eight ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs - My 1950s Childhood

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Mass Media in Modern Society

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Crystal Palace Speedway

    A History of the Glaziers

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with the first international match between England and Australia, the forerunner of the Test matches. It was an immediate success with the public who flocked in their tens of thousands to witness these ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

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  • 'We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa'

    A Little Girl's Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London

    by Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp ...
    'We ain't got no drink, Pa.'I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back.'We don't have no grog cos you drank it all!'I knew he was going for me tonight, so I reckoned I might as well go down fighting after all.Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Every day was battleground, a ... Read more

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  • Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse

    by Maggie Clarke, Cathryn Kemp ...
    Get cosy in front of the fire with this moving, heartwarming and inspiring true story. The perfect Christmas read!*****JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey and the Leeds and Liverpool ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • No Cake, No Jam

    Hardship and happiness in wartime London

    by Marian Hughes ...
    No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl’s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.Marian Hughes was born in the same year as her father committed suicide. She spent most of her early childhood with her elder sisters and brother in Spurgeon’s Orphanage in South London. There she learned to love ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Constance Street

    The true story of one family and one street in London’s East End

    by Charlie Connelly ...
    One forgotten street, 12 unforgettable women.‘’Ang on boy, Joan’s got sumfink to show yer.’ She rummaged in a drawer for a moment, pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me.‘Constance Street,’ she said. ‘As I remember it.’Through the story of one street – Constance Street – we hear the true life tales of a tight knit group of working class women in the East End of London set against a ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

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  • Over a Hot Stove

    Life below stairs in Britain's great houses: the charming memoirs of a 1930s kitchen maid

    by Flo Wadlow ...
    This delightful memoir provides a unique 'Upstairs, Downstairs'account of what life was really like in a bygone era.At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life 'in service'. Starting as a kitchen maid in London, she soon rose through the ranks and worked at many of England's great houses including Woodhall in Hilgay where she met scullery maid ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Cook's Tale

    The remarkable true story of life below stairs

    by Nancy Jackman, Tom Quinn ...
    Series series True Stories of Life Below Stairs
    The must-read memoir from Nancy Jackman, a cook in interwar England. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, DownstairsAn inspirational true story loved by readers:'To read Nancy's story in her own words was an absolute joy. The history, the humour, a perfect read of times gone by.' - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW'Touching, funny, nostalgic. This book opens a door into a world long ago and is a gem ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cocoa at Midnight

    The Housekeeper's Tale - the remarkable true story of life below stairs from Princess Diana's family housekeeper

    by Tom Quinn ...
    Series series True Stories of Life Below Stairs
    The must-read memoir from Kathleen Clifford, a housekeeper who worked in the Spencer family home in the interwar years. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs'My favourite gossips were William and Jimmy. I only got the chance to talk to them now and then as I spent most of my time hurtling round the kitchen trying not to upset the cook who was my immediate and terrifying boss. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sisters

    Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

    by Barbara Mortimer ...
    On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses.Sisters features over 150 previously unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant and riveting stories ... Read more

    $17.89 USD