Jade Barber

Jade Barber Researching Writing Lives

Before I started the Writing Lives module, I had never considered working class writing as a form of literature that appealed to …

‘Wars are appalling…one can see that side of the argument. At the same time, even de-glamorized, one is left with a picture …

‘I started in the bobbies a week before the war broke out. Ker-crash.’ (1) Coming from a family full of policemen, Mary …

‘Nowadays oneâ€™s children and grandchildren think one is staid and sober and has never done anything exciting. Little they know.’ (1)

So many of my generation say, about the Second World War – “I wouldn’t have missed it!” This is my war – …

‘I used to walk miles with my baby sister and brother in a pram, and I’d always pick up a few other …