British Labour History - Information on a wide range of British labour movement history and trade union leaders from the Chelmsford TUC.
The British Working Class in Postwar Film - Kevin Redhouse reviews the book by Philip Gillett, a sociological study of postwar Britain and the ways in which film portrayed the working class, the relationship between cinema as a means of popular entertainment and as a text is played out within the establishment of an historical context.
A Short History of the British Working Class Movement - Online book by Ken Knapman explores the Chartist movement, the history of trade unions, the co-operative movement and the labour movement into the twentieth century.
Victorian Life - Examines the plight of the working class and the poor under Victorianism.
The Labour Movement In Leicester 1883-2003 - An illustrated history of the labour movement in Leicester covering the last 120 years. Contains photographs and other visual material from this period.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Working Class A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Working Class
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Working Class People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Working Class
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Working Class Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Working Class
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Working Class "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Working Class
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Working Class The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Working Class
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Working Class "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Working Class
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Working Class We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Working Class
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Working Class "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Working Class
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Working Class True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Working Class
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Working Class Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Working Class
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Working Class I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Working Class
