Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum

by Robert Roberts

Book Overview

With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071900652X
• ISBN13: 9780719006524
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: University Press
• Length: 8 Pages

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable and well-written

Personal account by Robert Roberts (a son of a shopkeeper within a large family) of his early years, growing up in a run-down area in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, covering the period from 1905 to about 1921. Interesting, informative, well-written, entertaining; an enjoyable read. Worth reading. 9 out of 10