Zoom lecture – It will do him more good than going to school: Child labour in nineteenth-century Oxford

Local historian Liz Wooley is interested in the everyday lives of rural people across Oxfordshire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her illustrated talk tells the story of our county’s child workers, many of whom started work part-time at the age of six or seven and, until the compulsory school legislation of the 1870s, left education for good by the age of ten to become permanently employed in agriculture, domestic service, lace-making, gloving and other small-scale occupations.

Liz is an experienced speaker, guide, tutor, researcher and writer, popular with OCNT members, keen to help individual and groups to enjoy finding out about the history of their local area.