When I Was a Child - Growing Up in the Potteries in the 1840s

Charles Shaw was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire in 1832.

When I Was A Child is an autobiographical account of his early life working in the pottery industry-first, at the age of seven, as a mould-runner, and later as a handle maker. He describes many incidents in his life, including a brief spell in the workhouse, a rare outing to Trentham, the Pottery Riots of 1842, and how he eventually became a local preacher.

The book is a moving, first-hand record of social conditions and child labour in the pottery industry, and provides a fascinating insight into the social history of The Potteries.

Shaw's work originally appeared in 1893 as a series of anonymous articles in the Staffordshire Sentinel and, in 1903, it was published as a book under the title An Old Potter. 110 years later, this re-issued edition brings his recollections to a new, twenty-first century audience, revealing what life was really like for the working classes in the 1840s.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charles Shaw, Charles D. Shaw
• Verlag: Dormouse Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9780957670419
• ISBN: 978-0-9576704-1-9
• Seiten: 228
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 328 g
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte