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Wally Ward : Purpose and Audience

Wally Ward (born in 1914) wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ (2.798) during the 1960s, detailing his life as a sufferer of …

Wally Ward: Education

Wally Ward, author of memoir ‘Fit For Anything’, was born in 1914 to a poverty stricken family. Ward lived with two siblings, …

Wally Ward: Politics and Protest

Wally Ward, b.1914, wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ detailing his life with epilepsy in the twentieth century. Wally’s memoir is, on …

Wally Ward (b.1914): An Introduction

‘Fit For Anything’, penned by Wally Ward (b. 1914), is an autobiography detailing the author’s struggles to maintain a normal life within …

Wally Ward: Home and Family

Wally Ward, born 1914, wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ in the 1960s to detail life within the confines of epilepsy. In …

Wally Ward : Life and Labour

Wally Ward, b.1914, detailed his experiences growing up in a poverty stricken household in his memoir, ‘Fit For Anything’. Ward’s family consisted …

Wally Ward: Reading and Writing

Wally Ward, born in 1914, wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ detailing his life in war-time Britain while suffering from epilepsy. The …

Wally Ward: Habits, Cultures and Beliefs

Leisure activities of the British working-class were changing in the early twentieth century. Since the 1930s, increased technology, commercialisation and cultural propaganda …