Martha Martin (b.1871): Education & Schooling [1/2] ‘…it was while we lived at the Hough that my Father I don’t remember about mother that he got interested in a …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Reading and Writing. ‘You were carried into new worlds, your own mind and imagination were beginning to work’ (30) In the purpose and audience blog …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling. ‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): An Introduction. ‘My YESTERDAYS were an equal mixture of good and bad… Life was what we made it when I was a child in …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Education and Schooling ‘Schooldays were carefree and happy, we had little money, but we enjoyed life to the full’ (10). In ‘Down Memory Lane’, Cecil …
Daisy Cowper (1890 – 1985): Purpose & Audience ‘I do hope, children, that I’m not boring you with all this, but you did ask for it!’ Daisy, from the very …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) Childhood and Education ‘My father had eight rows of allotments, and grew chrysanthemums and mint. My eldest sister and I used to have to go …
An Introduction: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Harold Heslop was an author and writer of proletarian literature. He wrote several books, such as The Gate of a Strange Field published …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Education and Schooling (Part Two) In Part One, I discussed how the teacher Mr Evans’ interactions with John on a human level transformed the dangerous perception of …
