Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: beyond class?
- PART I POWER AND THE PEOPLE: POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART II MORALISING THE MARKET: WORK AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART III CUSTOM, HISTORY, LANGUAGE: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART IV KINGDOMS OF THE MIND: THE IMAGINARY CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
- Appendices
- 1 The Political Pulpit. A Sermon, 1839, (Extract)
- 2 Memory Sketches (Oldham, 1887)
- 3 Speech on Blackstone Edge, 1846 (Extract)
- 4 Speech at Manchester, 1866 (Extract)
- 5 Speech at the Public Hall, Warrington, 1868 (Extract)
- 6 McDouall's Chartist and Republican Journal, 1841 (Extract)
- 7 Short Time Committee Placards
- 8 ‘Our Merry Town’, Pearson Collection
- 9 ‘Rich and Poor’, Pearson Collection
- 10 Extract from the preface of the Weyver's Awn Comic Olmenack, 1881
- 11 Extract from the 1885 Weyver's Awn
- 12 Extract from Bob Stubbs' Yorksher Awmynack, preface and entry for March 1910
- 13 Cover and extract from Tommy Toddles' Comic Almenac, 1875
- 14 An example of Sussex dialect literature
- 15 Welcome, bonny brid
- 16 A Royal Visit, 1896
- 17 Eawr Folk
- 18 Bowton's Yard
- 19 Cotton Fowd
- 20 Title page and opening of a ‘Tum Fowt’ sketch
- Bibliographical note
- Notes
- Index
12 - Extract from Bob Stubbs' Yorksher Awmynack, preface and entry for March 1910
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: beyond class?
- PART I POWER AND THE PEOPLE: POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART II MORALISING THE MARKET: WORK AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART III CUSTOM, HISTORY, LANGUAGE: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART IV KINGDOMS OF THE MIND: THE IMAGINARY CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
- Appendices
- 1 The Political Pulpit. A Sermon, 1839, (Extract)
- 2 Memory Sketches (Oldham, 1887)
- 3 Speech on Blackstone Edge, 1846 (Extract)
- 4 Speech at Manchester, 1866 (Extract)
- 5 Speech at the Public Hall, Warrington, 1868 (Extract)
- 6 McDouall's Chartist and Republican Journal, 1841 (Extract)
- 7 Short Time Committee Placards
- 8 ‘Our Merry Town’, Pearson Collection
- 9 ‘Rich and Poor’, Pearson Collection
- 10 Extract from the preface of the Weyver's Awn Comic Olmenack, 1881
- 11 Extract from the 1885 Weyver's Awn
- 12 Extract from Bob Stubbs' Yorksher Awmynack, preface and entry for March 1910
- 13 Cover and extract from Tommy Toddles' Comic Almenac, 1875
- 14 An example of Sussex dialect literature
- 15 Welcome, bonny brid
- 16 A Royal Visit, 1896
- 17 Eawr Folk
- 18 Bowton's Yard
- 19 Cotton Fowd
- 20 Title page and opening of a ‘Tum Fowt’ sketch
- Bibliographical note
- Notes
- Index
Summary
T'PREFACE
Fower goin i'five! Anuther yeear's gooan by, an as ah sit mah darn to start anuther Awmynack, I feel inclined to lewk back o' t' past tooathery yeear, an see wot changes they've browt.
Five yeear seems a lot to lewk forrad tul, bud to lewk back on, wha! it dusn't seem as long as wun o'them dreeams when yo dreeam ye'r getting chased in aht ov a lot o'snickets bi a pig wi' three nooases an a horn a fut long grown up aht ov ivvery nooase, an ivvery time yo turn a corner the's anuther three nooas'd pig stood i' yer way! Them's t' sooart o' dreeams yo dreeam after a gurt fried fish an chip puttatey supper!
Still, the's been a lot o' changes this last five yeear for us all. Changes for better er for warr! For it's a world o'changes, an as long as we live we goa on changin, an wot happens after we're deead – well, th'es nivver nobody com'd back yet to tell us.
Five yeear owd! Little I thowt when I rate mi first awmynack, wot a lot o' friends it 'd bring me. Bud it hez done, an ah'm bottom thenkful to feel wot thaasands upon thaasands o' Yorksher people taks a interest i' mi green-backed awmynack, an hah kindley they lewk forrad to me plain hooamli tawks.
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- Visions of the PeopleIndustrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914, pp. 376 - 379Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991