May Jones: War and Memory “I knew then that I should die an old maid, I was only twenty years old” May’s memoir is about her childhood …
C.V. Horner (1897–1980): War and Memory ‘The first time the war became a reality for me was when I heard the Germans bombing Hartlepool, not so very far …
Thomas Mclauchlan (1888-1979): War and Memory Like many of the working-class writers featured on the Writing Lives website, Thomas MacLauchlan lived through the many wars that Britain fought …
Charles Whiten Sanderson (1906-1990): War and Memory Part Two. ‘After twenty years of uneasy peace it was all to begin again, begun by the same nation who had supposedly been the …
Dorothy Squires (b.1897): War and Memory “There were so many unpleasant things that happened during those war years, that it would take weeks of writing to relate” (64) …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): War and Memory II ‘Whatever is written from Autumn 1915 to 13th November 1916, will be authentic but I will leave out as far as possible …
Joe Ayre (b.1910): War and Memory The two World Wars have undoubtedly had a huge impact on history. I myself have studied the effects of both wars throughout …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): War and Memory ‘It was the time of the amassing of Hitler’s troops on the borders of Austria. This previously happy country was now in …
Ruth Cox (1890): War and Memory Part II Welcome back to Part Two of my blog on Ruth Cox (1890): War and Memory. Ruth writes that in order to be …
Ruth Cox (born 1890): War and Memory Part I Many people all over the British Isles suffered from injuries through bombings and air-raids, many too were courageous in their duties to …
