Molly Keen: Biographical Entry
2:449 KEEN, Molly, ‘Childhood Memories, 1903 to 1921’, TS, pp.35 (c.12,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1903 in Hounslow. Father a …
Arthur T. Collinson (b. 1893): An Introduction
From witnessing a shooting as a child, to seeing the likes of Kaiser Wilhelm and Alfonso of Spain buying newspapers from his blind …
Margaret Watson (b.1907) War and Memory
Margaret Watson was just seven-years-old when the First World War began. By the start of the Second World War, Margaret was a …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Politics, Protest and Class
Molly Keen does not appear to be a particularly political person herself, however she describes the current social views of the working …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Life writing, class and identity.
‘But your nursey years were running to a close, your private school years, your childhood years. All running to a close, coming …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Home and Family [part 1]
‘We were a family of five, but sadly did not live together as a family for very long because of our financial …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) War and Memory Part 1
Then I received a letter to report to Bulford Camp as Heavy Goods driver in RASC where I did my Army training …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Biographical Entry
Jack McQuoid, “One Man in His Time: an autobiography”. Typescript. 328pp. plus 6 photocopies of newspaper cuttings etc. c. 1985. Part 1 …
Joe Loftus (1914-1998): War & Memory
“I can understand now how men were brutalised by the idiotic slaughter and years of doing everything by army numbers, cut off …
Wally Ward: Politics and Protest
Wally Ward, b.1914, wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ detailing his life with epilepsy in the twentieth century. Wally’s memoir is, on …