A.W Todd: Audience and Purpose “In recording my memoirs of working as a mason, during these years in between the wars, I have endeavoured to relate the …
Pat O’Mara (1901-1983) Life and Labour “With my brief sojourn in America I had caught a new glimpse of life; a different perspective and I had no intention …
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. …
Pat O’Mara (1901-1983) Researching Writing Lives Researching Pat O’Mara’s life has provided me with a new-found love for history and autobiographies. I’ve learned through Pat’s story why memoirs …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Purpose and Audience ‘Well, Husband of mine and you, my children, this is the end of six and a half years of your old “Mum’s” …
A.W Todd: Work Pays. Leisure and Recreation In keeping with the work orientated themes, we come to the most revered day in the worker’s monthly calendar: pay day. And …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Food ‘I can never remember being hungry, but I am sure Mama and Dada often denied themselves so that Ron and I could …
A.W Todd: Yard Culture Like any work place, Masonry had a culture of its own that existed within the confines of the working day and the …
A.W Todd: Autobiography and the literary. In this post I’ll be looking at the role of more literary and fiction orientated aspects of Todd’s memoir and what they …
Hilda Ann Salusbury (1906-1993): Home and Family (Part 1) The family and the home form the basis of Hilda Salusbury’s memoir. Her first chapter is titled ‘The Family and the Setting’, …
