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Day In, Day Out: Leisure

These excerpts were written by a north Manchester women who were in their seventies and nineties at the time of publication in 1985. Mary: We used to walk
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Day In, Day Out memories of North Manchester from women in Monsall Hospital by Various

Yes, reminiscence work is about history, but history with a difference[…] a life stretching back ninety years or considerably less. It can be a fleeting moment or a
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Just Lately I Realise Stories from West Indian Lives by Various

Life stories from Manchester’s West Indian population. Tales from back home, the culture shock of uprooting from the rural Caribbean to Britain’s heavily industrialised urban centres. The writers
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A Song for Carrying Water by Various

[Quantity?] Somali folktales with English translations.   Published: 1997
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Taking Some Honey Home by Zahida Affridi

A British Pakistani woman recalls a childhood trip to Pakistan. Published: 1999
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