memoirs

H J Harris (b.1903): Home and Family

‘I can give you the official way my father met his death, but you would have to accept my word for what …

At the beginning of Hilda’s memoir, she dedicates it to her two grandsons, Julian and Austen who were the children of her …

During the years following my North Atlantic journeys I often thought about those times, my adventures and dangers and mad rolling oceans, …

Then I received a letter to report to Bulford Camp as Heavy Goods driver in RASC where I did my Army training …

Childhood “[We] use[d] to have a good time dressing up making all our own amusement and Believe me we use[d] to thour[ough]ly …

Lorna’s motivation for writing lies at the beginning of her autobiography. Her purpose was to show her dedication towards her nursing duties. …

Imagine the dismay, excitement and uncertainty of going ‘all that way’ into the uncertain future. I bade a tearful farewell to my …

You were lucky to have a job, so you worked hard to keep it, there being no unemployment pay in those days. …

Regenia Gagnier argues that the working class autobiography changed in the way it was written in the 19th century. She argues that “bourgeois …

My life of eighty two years has been a wonderful experience of evolution and revolution…