Remembering Deceased Children in Family Life: the School Case of Poor Harold (1920-31)
Remembering Deceased Children in Family Life: the School Case of Poor Harold (1920-31)
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10.1093/hwj/dbac006
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2022-03-31
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King，Laura
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“我想，他一直都是她的小男孩。”这句话与利兹的一名小学生哈罗德·库珀有关。1931年，他在11岁生日前去世，他的母亲玛丽为他感到悲痛，并深情地回忆起他在余生中的善良本性。这是她的孙女莫琳说的。哈罗德的家人--首先是他的母亲，然后是他的妹妹，然后是他的侄女莫琳--在学校里放了一个小箱子，里面装着他的东西，以纪念他(图1)。这篇文章追溯了五代人的故事，并用它来研究家庭如何纪念那些他们失去的人的生命和死亡，并管理他们的悲痛。我是通过一个合作研究项目了解到这个故事的。在这个项目中，我和来自利兹大学历史学院的杰西卡·哈米特在15个月的时间里，定期与一群家庭历史学家会面，共同探索他们的家族史。我们鼓励他们写下他们的祖先，并把他们写的东西发布在我们的项目博客上。其中一位更有经验的成员莫琳·杰索普对她的家族史进行了广泛的研究，追溯了她在利兹的工人阶级血统和更远的家庭。2这是莫林对哈罗德生死的书面描述，2017年发表在我们的博客上：3
‘He was always her little boy, I suppose.’1 These words relate to Harold Cooper, a schoolboy from Leeds. He died just before his eleventh birthday in 1931, and his mother Mary grieved for him and fondly recalled his good nature throughout the rest of her life. These are her granddaughter Maureen’s words. Harold’s family–first his mother, then his sister, and then his niece, Maureen–have kept a small school case with his things inside, to remember him (Fig. 1). This article traces the story across five generations and uses it to examine ways in which families may mark the lives and deaths of those they have lost, and manage their grief. I came to know this story through a collaborative research project in which over fifteen months Jessica Hammett and I, from the School of History, University of Leeds, met regularly with a group of family historians and worked together to explore their family histories. We encouraged them to write about their ancestors, and to post what they wrote on our project blog. One of the more experienced group members, Maureen Jessop, had researched her family history extensively, tracing her working-class Leeds roots and family further afield. 2 This is Maureen’s written account of Harold’s life and death, published on our blog in 2017: 3