Onion Johnnies
eBook - ePub

Onion Johnnies

Recollections of Seasonal French Onion Sellers in Scotland

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Onion Johnnies

Recollections of Seasonal French Onion Sellers in Scotland

About this book

For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or 'Ingan Johnnies', as they were usually known in Scotland) were a familiar group of seasonal workers in towns and cities throughout Britain.In this book, nine Onion Johnnies (including one 'Jenny') who worked in Scotland at one time or another between the 1920s and the 1970s recount their lives. The recollections, recorded in interviews in Brittany and at Leith in 1999 by the Scottish Working People's History Trust, provide a fascinating insight into the lives and experience of those whose livelihood and way of life have vanished forever. It paints a poignant picture of the past and a way of life about nothing in any detail has ever been published before.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781839830310
eBook ISBN
9781788856430
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Ian MacDougall
  7. Maps
  8. Introduction
  9. Jean Saout
  10. Jean Milin
  11. Anna Gourlet
  12. François Perron
  13. Eugène Guyader
  14. Claude Quimerch
  15. Jean-Marie Tanguy
  16. Guy Le Bihan
  17. Yves Rolland
  18. Notes
  19. Appendix
  20. Index
  21. The Scottish Working People’s History Trust
  22. Plates