Nab End and Beyond: The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End (Abacus)
by William Woodruff
Nab End (Collections and Selections — omnibus)
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This omnibus edition comprises William Woodruff's two volumes of autobiography, The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End. Born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill, William faced a tough life in 1920s Blackburn. At 16 he left the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he found no streets paved with gold, but instead filthy tenements and squalor. He eventually makes it to Plater College, in Oxford, and witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war--a war in which he show more himself will soon be fighting show lessTags
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This autobiography by a great modern historian provides testimonial details of an age now vanished. The working class son of an industrial machine weaver in northern England, born 1916 in the carding-room of a Blackburn cotton mill, tells of his childhood in the depths of the economic Depression. He survives work as a sand-rat in a smelter, the filthy squalor of London, introduction into the pastoral rigors of academic competition in Oxford--courtesy of Labour Party grants--travels across Europe, and two World Wars.
The author is a respected economic historian -- with fellowships and teaching positions in Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, University of Illinois, Florida, Melbourne, and institutions in Berlin and Tokyo.
This work is the show more omnibus edition of his two-part autobiography. Died in 2008, age 92. show less
The author is a respected economic historian -- with fellowships and teaching positions in Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, University of Illinois, Florida, Melbourne, and institutions in Berlin and Tokyo.
This work is the show more omnibus edition of his two-part autobiography. Died in 2008, age 92. show less
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British chronicler William Woodruff was born in Blackburn, England on September 12, 1916. At the age of 10, he spent more time on paper routes than in school. He dropped out of school at age 13 to work in a grocer's store. At the age of 16, he found work in an iron foundry in London. Union leaders and Labor Party politicians convinced him to go to show more night school and he eventually earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Oxford University and a doctorate from Nottingham University. He taught at numerous universities including Nottingham University, Harvard University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Florida. He wrote numerous books including The Road to Nab End, Beyond Nab End, Vessel of Sadness, and Paradise Galore. He died on September 23, 2008 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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