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Joseph Terry (1816-1889): Home and Family

Working-class fathers existed…but working-class fatherhood remained uncertain- Julie Marie Strange (1) Time spent together for working-class families would often be scarce as …

Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Biographical Entry

783 VERE, Percy [pseud. of H.V. SMITH], ‘The Autobiography of a Working Man’, TS, pp.10 (c.6,500 words). Brunel University Library. Born …

Annie Lord (b.1899) Researching Writing Lives

My whole time and experience on the Writing Lives module has been only positive. I feel so privileged to have been able …

Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): War and Memory (2)

I previously wrote about how Walter approaches the discussion of his experiences in the first world war, in War and Memory (1). …

Guy Oates (1905-1987): Home and Family – Part One

The history of some of the men in the Oates family: ‘My Grandfather 1816 to 1872’ (1:66) [Guy’s] grandfather loved to entertain all …

Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Biographical entry

181 COOTER, Florence Anne, ‘Seventh Child’, MS, pp.71 (c.71,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born Aug 1912 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Father worked as …

Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Life and Labour

The firm I was working for closed down, therefore I was out of work for the first 12 weeks of married life. …

Annie Ford (1920 Onwards): Education and Schooling

Annie’s first recollection of schooling was at Willet Street Nursery, she describes this as a happy and content time in her life. …

George Gregory (b.1888): An Introduction

‘It cannot be said that I was privileged in any special way in the home in which I first saw the light …

Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Purpose and Audience

“This was to have been an account of my early youth… but I think I had better commence with my Mother’s early …

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