Monthly Archives: January 2022

Searching for Miss Nellie Kay; Manchester Tailoress and Union Organiser

Posted on January 16, 2022 by lipstick socialist

  Transcribing the Minute Books of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council led me to encounter Miss Nellie Kay. She was appointed as a special organiser for the  Tailoresses Society in June 1901. The address of the Tailoresses … Continue reading →

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My review of “Class of ’37 Voices from working-class girlhood” Hester Barron & Claire Langhamer

Posted on January 4, 2022 by lipstick socialist

    The authors of this wonderful book,  which  gives a voice to working class children in 1937, said that “they stumbled across an entry in the online catalogue (of the Mass Observation archive)  entitled ‘Children’s essays; observations in schools’” … Continue reading →

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