Cracked eggs and chicken soup : memories of an East End childhood between the wars
Jacobs, Norman, 1947-2018
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In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to eight children, as his own had, living in just two or three rooms with outside W.C. and water tap; of the reliance on charity and the soup kitchen for food; of trying to eke out what little income they had by buying stale bread and cracked eggs or other cheap food from the many itinerant street sellers. Yet this is also a chronicle of what was a turbulent time in British history, and especially in the East End, with its then still large Jewish and Irish populations.
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Author:
Jacobs, Norman, 1947-, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake, 2018.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781786068798 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
Jacobs, Norman, 1947- -- Childhood and youthHackney (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryEast End (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryHackney (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryEast End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryHistory
BRN:
950458
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