February 2005
A List of North Staffordshire (and one South Cheshire) working-class autobiographies/memoirs.
1. HUGH BOURNE 1772-1852, carpenter, Primitive Methodist preacher. Unpublished autobiography, texts A,B & C written c. 1844, 1845,1850: life to 1811 only. Typescript copies of mss. in H(anley) R(eference) L(ibrary). Extracts in J.T.Wilkinson, Hugh Bourne, 1952. 2. SAMUEL TAYLOR born c. 1810, Hanley potter, designer, commercial traveller (incl. to Russia 1859). Records of an Active Life 1886: Life to 1860. Mechanics’ Institute, Anti-Corn Law League, Sentinel co-founder. Penny readings etc. 90 pp. HRL 3. THOMAS DUNNING 1813-1894, Nantwich shoemaker, newsagent, trade unionist and Chartist.
