memoirs

Hilda Ann Salusbury (1906-1993): Purpose and Audience

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

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

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

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

An Introduction: Tobias, Wilhelmina Wilhelmina Tobias’s father, a ship worker, speaks from his upturned box to a small crowd outside his …

[…] I was rather a delicate child. It must have been when I was not very well that one morning before I …

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…

“Does one need to end up a figure of national importance to have a story to tell?” Syd Metcalfe, ‘One Speck of …

“For the whole story we need to go back to the very beginning and work our way slowly through.” Syd Metcalfe, …