Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer discuss their new book, Class of ’37, which looks at what we can learn from essays written in 1937 by 12- and 13-year-old girls from Bolton. (Ad) Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer are the authors of Class of '37: Voices from Working-Class Girlhood (Metro, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Class-37-Voices-Working-class-Girlhood/dp/1789464056/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.5	What was it like to be a 12-year-old girl in 1930s, Bolton?
1:04.7	That's something that Hester Barron and Claire Langhammer aimed to reconstruct in their new book Class of 37,
1:08.8	using an archive of schoolgirls essays on everything from their
1:12.3	favourite film stars to their ideas about heaven and hell. I spoke to them both to find out more.
1:19.2	The Class of 37, it takes us back to the Lancashire Mill Town of Bolton in 1937, as seen through
1:25.5	the eyes of a class of 12 and 13-year-old school girls.
1:29.7	You managed to create a really vivid and moving portrait of these girls' lives.
1:34.5	So can you tell us about the extraordinary archive that you drew on in order to do so?
1:40.0	Well, the essays are located in the Mass Observation Archive,
1:51.6	which is an archive that sits at an archive called The Keep in East Sussex, just near where we work at Sussex University.
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