Martha Martin (b.1871): Life & Labour [3/3] and as I look back I think that it is a great mistake to get married young and am always glad that …
Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Life and Labour Alongside childhood, working life and labour is a significant theme in Memories. After discovering Minnie’s maiden name through her marriage on Ancestry …
Home & Family: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Given the impressive length of Harold Heslop’s memoir, and the clarity and detail in which he writes about ‘life beneath the fields,’ …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 2) To tell you the truth I was beginning to feel tired.’ (10) Lilian Westall started working from fourteen years of age. …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Habits, Belief and Culture ‘Reading a gardening article one day about 1977, I saw an article on the art of growing miniature trees. Ah, I thought, …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): War and Memory Part One Florence witnessed and lived through the effects of two world wars. Memories of war began early in Florence’s life as a child …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Home and Family (Part 2) After reading through Westall’s memoir I decided to look for her in national documents. I found Lilian Rose Westall, born April 2nd, …
Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952): Life & Labour Life and Labour sums up Albert Mansbridge very well. ‘His promising academic career stopped abruptly at the age of fourteen when he …
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. …
