Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973
Also known as “The Edwardians”, this is an oral history collection of 453 interviews with Britons born before 1908.
Collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s from a range of occupational classes, regions, and locations these open ended interviews allowed participants to talk at length about family life, education, work, leisure, friendships, relationships, and communities.
The result is an exceptional set of testimonies – particularly from working class participants – of life in Britain and the Empire before the Great War.
Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966
Mothers Alone is as striking as any post-war British “kitchen sink realism” literary or artistic work.
Avoiding the constraints of a quantitative survey, it australia rcs data instead invited women in Huddersfield and Colchester to describe their specific experiences of poverty and single parenthood in mid-60s Britain.
This research (although its approach to informed consent would horrify a contemporary research ethics committee) into unmarried, widowed, separated, and divorced mothers stands as a literary work in style and feminist text in its revealing sketches of relationships, gender roles, social stigmas, bureaucracy, health, housing, and poverty.
Standard Eurobarometer, 1974-
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