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The View from the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime
Kathleen Hey
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Description for The View from the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime
Paperback. A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Editor(s): Malcomson, Robert; Malcolmson, Patricia. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10-15 b&w integrated. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling ... Read more
A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471154010
SKU
V9781471154010
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Kathleen Hey
Kathleen Hey was born on 17 March 1906, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest of four children. Her diary exists in the Mass Observation Archive but does not chronicle the date of her death. To the best of the editors' knowledge, she died without leaving descendants.
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