Matty ODonohoe

Life and Labour – George Clifton Hughes, Part One

“Although wages had risen during the war, they had now flattened” Although, George Clifton Hughes does not write about his own occupation …

Habits & Culture…

And we’re going to Wembley Hughes’ memoirs are littered with a common theme, and that common theme is the joy he has …

Reading & Writing

‘There must be a bullet hidden away here somewhere and I’d be making it if I had not already shot my bolt …

Education and Schooling – George Clifton Hughes.

Absque Labore Nihil -Nothing Without Labour- Education essentially frames the essence of George Clifton Hughes’s memoirs. Large sections of the opening passages …

Audience and Purpose

There is no clear indication why someone who is not within the public eye as to why they would write such a …

War and Memory

“It must have been the opening phase of the 1914-18 war that the village was shocked by…“ When reading the memoirs of …

Life and Labour Part Two – George Clifton Hughes

“During the time of the long strike the mid-day meal for many was little more than ha’penny banana” Hughes gives off the …

Education and Schooling – Part Two

‘Not a bad motto to carry through life in this day and age’ Hughes’s memories of schools are never too far removed …

Biographical Entry

2:426 HUGHES, George Clifton, ‘Shut the Mountain Gate’,TS, pp.141 (c.65,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born in the opening decade of the 20th …

George Clifton Hughes (born c. 1911): An Introduction

SHUT THE MOUNTAIN GATES ‘It is difficult to remember whether some things are personally recollected or whether, at a later inopportune stage, …

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