by William Woodruff · Eland Publishing Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780907871675
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«The Road to Nab End» is the autobiography of William Woodruff, published by Eland Publishing Ltd in paperback (400 pages, in English).
William Woodruff recalls his childhood in the textile community of Blackburn (Lancashire), from his birth in 1916 to his flight to London. After the collapse of the cotton industry in 1920, his father lost his job and the family faced extreme poverty during the Great Depression.
First instalment of the 'Nab End' memoir series. The work was originally published in 1993; this edition is from 2000.
For readers of biographies and social history, especially those interested in working-class life and industrial England of the twentieth century.
William Woodruff was a professor of world history and author. His two autobiographical works, The Road to Nab End and its sequel Beyond Nab End, both became bestsellers in the United Kingdom. The memoirs, covering Woodruff's impoverished upbringing in an English weaving community during the Great Depression, contain significant amounts of social commentary about the conditions in which he lived.
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