When I Was a Child: Growing Up in the Potteries in the 1840s - Couverture souple

Shaw, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957670419 ISBN 13 : 9780957670419

Editeur : Dormouse Press, an imprint of Guidemark Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Charles Shaw was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire in 1832. When I Was A Child is an autobiographical account of his early life working in the pottery industry-first, at the age of seven, as a mould-runner, and later as a handle maker. He describes many incidents in his life, including a brief spell in the workhouse, a rare outing to Trentham, the Pottery Riots of 1842, and how he eventually became a local preacher. The book is a moving, first-hand record of social conditions and child labour in the pottery industry, and provides a fascinating insight into the social history of The Potteries. Shaw's work originally appeared in 1893 as a series of anonymous articles in the Staffordshire Sentinel and, in 1903, it was published as a book under the title An Old Potter. 110 years later, this re-issued edition brings his recollections to a new, twenty-first century audience, revealing what life was really like for the working classes in the 1840s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dormouse Press, an imprint of Guidemark Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957670419
• ISBN 13: 9780957670419
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne