A Woman's Place An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940

"Their talk is lively, and it s a wonder to read the voices of people who do not usually get to talk for themselves." (The Smart Set, 7 April 2011)

" A Woman s Place is a book to which all future historians of the working-class will be indebted." Times Higher Education Supplement

" A Woman s Place will be read with interest for the illuminating accounts of working-class experiences, but equally for Dr Roberts erudite gloss on her material ... Her achievement is to record working-class lives as they were lived and her success in doing so establishes her as one of the most accomplished practitioners of oral history." Economic History Review

"A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations ... and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected." New Society

"This is a first-rate book for both expert historian and general reader; it deserves wider circulation." Women s Review of Books

"Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third." Times Educational Supplement

"... one of the best social histories of Britain before 1940." The Sunday Review