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89Working Class life in the 1940’s and 1950´s Britain ~ Train Travel
A first hand account of train travel in the late forties and early fifties as experienced by a young working class child. Also memories recalled of the barrow boys and girls that would meet the trains to help passengers to carry their luggage to their Boarding Houses. The sights, sounds and smells associated with steam trains, the smoking and none smoking compartments and much more besides. Come and wander down memory lane and see how different things were back then.
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89Working Class life in the 1940’s & 50’s – After Wash Day
It is a way of life almost forgotten that is so different from life today. Read this first hand account of what came after washday see how your grandmother use to cope with her chores. It is about normal people leading ordinary lives not the things that history books are written about so find out for yourself what it was like.
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78The Royals Are Parasites
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge faced the first organised protests against their visit to Canada within minutes of their arrival in Montreal on Saturday night. I expect more to come from the few, but the enlightened. For heavens sake, God please put an end to our queen!
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76If The Far Right Ruled America
In light of what's been going on with Democratic state lawmakers leaving Indiana, Ohio, and particularly Wisconsin to avoid voting on bills that would enact devastating budget cuts and the revoking of union collective bargaining rights, which their...
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79Communism
There are many opinions about communism, but to appreciate what it is, we have to go back to the source, which is the Communist Manifesto. Communism is also very ancient and forms of it were practices by ancient peoples and even Christians.
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77"The Woman Who Walked Into Doors" by Roddy Doyle
A book review of Roddy Doyle's "The Woman Who Walked Into Doors".
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83Working Class Life in England in the 1930's
Working Class life in England in the 1930's. What life was like for a typical working class family in Birkenhead during the 1930's. A high instance of infant deaths due to poor conditions and and no free health service. Nothing was wasted every thing that could be would be recycled out of necessity. A hard life where families pulled together. Expectations were very different back then and everyone knew their place.
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77Working Class Life in the 1940’s
This article is a first hand account of working class life back in the 1940s. Ordinary life carried on even in the War years and this article lets you take a peek into what life was like back then. It is a way of life that has almost disappeared and accounts of this way of life will not be recorded in conventional history books, so it is important that some record be made so that ordinary people have access to their own history.
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84Bonfire Night in a Working Class area in the 1950’s
Bonfire Night was a big event in the lives of a working class children back in the early fifties. Read this first hand account of how it was celebrated sixty years ago and learn about who Guy Fawkes was and what he did. Read what happened to him and find out what the celebration is all about.
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