Category Archives: Jobs for Life

Jobs for life: An autobiographical search for identity through employment  The UK’s first ever referendum had been called by the then Labour government, whose victory in each of 1974’s two General Elections had depended to some extent on its promise of a national referendum on Britain’s membership of the Common Market, to which the UK […]

Amlwch Port When I left school, I had taken the entrance exam for Oxford and a couple of months afterwards I learned that I had won a place at Pembroke College to study Modern History and would go “up” to Oxford later in the year. 1975 was therefore a part ‘gap year’, although the phrase […]

Jobs for life: An autobiographical search for identity through employment    A story went round at school that the local newsagent was offering paper rounds that paid well but might be difficult for late risers. I was 15, a boarder at Westminster School, and needed more pocket money. I jumped at the chance, went round […]