Reference WWA EP2 - Beryl Beardsmore
- Reference Number: DX-1043/21
- Date: Jul 2013
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 item
- Format: CD-ROM
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Description: 00:04 Introduction with father's employment as a toolmaker and mother's role as a housewife
03:22 Childhood home (a 1930s council house in Dudley)
04:38 Leaving school and the education of women in comparison to men
05:57 Classics degree at Birmingham University and teaching
07:53 Life as a working mother and teaching career
09:30 Marriage and motherhood
10:34 World War Two (GIs in Dudley, women evacuees, food parcels, gas masks)
16:00 Post-war life (depleted population and rationing)
18:38 Beginnings of immigration
20:22 Strikes (1970s car strikes, winter of discontent and undertakers' strike)
23:46 Margaret Thatcher and curbing the power of the unions
- Access Status: Open
- Contact: Wolverhampton Archives, Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies