William Woodruff
From his birth in 1916 until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn’s weaving community. He eventually went to Oxford University and lived in Florida for over forty years. He died in 2008.
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The Road To Nab End
William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a…
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A Concise History Of The Modern World
This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces…
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Vessel Of Sadness
Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been…
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Beyond Nab End
The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel…