Shop Assistant in Wartime - The Dewsbury Diary of Kathleen Hey, 1941-1945Pevná vazba
Shop Assistant in Wartime - The Dewsbury Diary of Kathleen Hey, 1941-1945Pevná vazba Insights into life in England during the second world war.Kathleen Hey's diary provides an insider's view of an…
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Shop Assistant in Wartime - The Dewsbury Diary of Kathleen Hey, 1941-1945Pevná vazba
Insights into life in England during the second world war.Kathleen Hey's diary provides an insider's view of an industrial city in wartime Yorkshire. Regular customers, usually close neighbours, were eager to learn what scarce and coveted items might be in stock, and sometimes went in several times a day to discover what was available, as well as to chat about the war, complain about the provisions they were getting, or seek assistance with their ration books.While the frustrations and satisfactions of shop-work are at the heart of her diary, she also wrote about leisure, popular culture, public events and political debates, civil defence, domestic tensions, and her hopes for the post-war future. As a shop assistant in a working class district of Dewsbury, she documented the stresses and complex exchanges in a grocery - from both sides of the counter.
Life was often