Please forgive the self-promotion, but this book has been many years in the making and is published today by OpenBook Publishers: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
For World Habitat Day read ‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. womenshistorynetwork.org/a-womans-par...
I teach this every year on my 'northern history' module. My students often struggle with poetry, but once we've read it a few times, and watched him reading, they get it and enjoy. The first writing I ever read on being 'educated out of your class.' RIP, genius man.
Utterly gorgeous snapshot of everyday #20s30s.
A pika sits on a mossy rock.
Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.
An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.
An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
'With a relatively fixed pool of applicants and a relatively fixed distribution of A-level points, if “top” universities are expanding their intake, they’re inevitably either reducing the attainment of those they admit, or redistributing market share at smaller institutions’ expense, or both.' 1/3
A closed group -- and a self-selected group!
Please forgive the shameless self-publicity, but a collection of essays on transnational working-class literature which I helped to co-edit (and also contributed to) has been published today! See the link below for details & ask your library to order a copy!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
