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Social History
Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life
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Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. “I think I’ll add a little chili powder.”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012
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When a quarter of a million miners are unemployed, it is a part of the order of things that Alf Smith, a miner living in the back-streets of Newcastle, should be out of work. But no human being finds it easy to regard himself as a statistical unit. So long as Bert Jones across the street is still at work, Alf Smith is bound to feel himself dishonoured and a failure.
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― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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