Reference WWA KS1 - Elizabeth Harber
- Reference Number: DX-1043/25
- Date: Jul 2013
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 item
- Format: CD-ROM
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Description: 00:00 Introduction (name, date of birth etc.)
00:24 Father and his employment
01:01 Mother and her work
01:12 Childhood and childhood home
01:55 School (reference to Apartheid)
03:17 Life at boarding school
04:45 What she studied at University.
She studied zoology and maths along with geography, geology and psychology.
Got teaching diploma in 4th year
05:12 Awareness of different cultures in South Africa.
At school and workers on farm.
06:03 Segregation and prejudice in South Africa
Africans separated from Europeans in town, buses, parks
06:40 After 1948 African Nationalist government report by Tomlinson
Keep Africans and Europeans culturally separate but Europeans depended on Africans
07:22 Issues of prejudice and segregation changed for the better?
Yes to partake but lots of unemployment and areas of poor housing and poverty.
07:58 Africans had to have passes to get into towns. Women went to work as domestics in households and lived in back garden of premises in towns, had to have permit, which meant left children with grandmothers.
08:29 Life when she moved to Wolverhampton
Moved to Wolverhampton in 1976
09:03 First impressions of Wolverhampton; shops, Beatties and the Wolverhampton Grammar School.
10:50 Returning to work as a teacher part-time.
11:28 Changes in Wolverhampton; Tettenhall joining borough, re-zoning of school catchment areas and more recent changes to retail in the town.
12:30 The effects of the Second World War on Elizabeth's childhood in South Africa; her father's participation, effect on her mother, having to go to boarding school and the availability of supplies from the local grocer's.
13:50 Changes in the lives of women throughout Elizabeth's lifetime
15:00 Elizabeth's feelings about Thatcher becoming Prime Minister and the battle she experienced to become a candidate as she was a woman
15:50 The advancement of technology throughout Elizabeth's lifetime
16:40 Women's equality, particularly at A-level and university levels - Access Status: Open
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