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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Part Two 5: Betrayed
Part Two 5: Betrayed. “For over 7 months I’ve thought I’ve been in love with & engaged to Ernst. All my plans – with a brake on – were made in relation to him. Now I find in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History
Tagged APO Army Post Office, Bishop Allen Cairo, BMEO British Middle East Office, Claridges Cairo, Cork Ireland, El Kirsch, Fayid, General Allfrey, John Gielgud, Maadi Cairo, Moascar Garrison, Mouski Cairo, Partick, Ronald Cambell Ambassador Egypt 1947, Scotstoun, Societe Phillipe Cairo, Splendide Port Said, ss Caronia, wedding Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
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Part Two 4: Cholera and Riots
Part Two 4: Cholera and Riots “Listen, honey lamb, there’s something we want you to do for us and that is, please, while this Cholera epidemic is rife send us a wee note everyday, it needn’t be long or … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History
Tagged A.P.Herbert, British Coaling Co, Cairo Drama Guild, Carbisdale Castle, Cholera epidemic Egypt 1947, Daily Worker, El Ballah, El Koreen, food shortage Britain 1947, housing shortage Britain 1947, India Tyre and Rubber Co, Infantile paralysis, Ismailia, Ismailiyah, Nancy Riach, Port Said, SIB Special Investigations Branch, ss Patrician, Tel el Kabir, Theodore Salvesen, Tramore, UNRRA
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Part Two 3: Life as Medicine
Part Two 3: Life As Medicine “Some of the English girls don’t seem alive at all – they take life as a sort of medicine.” – Vera, a young Russian, quoted by Len, 28 August, 1947. 18 … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History
Tagged Anthrax, Clement Attlee, Cowal Games, David Kirkwood, De Lessops Monument Port Said, Dornoch, Edinburgh Festival 1947, Fleetwood, Foreign Service Allowance, Fort William, Gezira, Glencoe, Groppis, Gruinard Bay, Gruinard Island, Ishmailia, Journal d'Egypte, Mahmud Nurqrashi, Morecambe, Musky, Porton Down, RSA certificate, Shaibah, Sphinx magazine, ss Empire Rival, Suez Canal Zone, Supplies and Services Bill, Tito, Willie Gallacher, Winston Churchill
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Part Two 2: Quick Ripening of Intense Feelings
Part Two 2: Quick Ripening of Intense Feelings “In the few spare moments when I have time to think of personal things, my thoughts inevitably wander back in your direction. The quick ripening of our intense feelings for one … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History
Tagged 51 Military Prison, Abadan, All the Shahs Men, Anglo Iranian Oil Company, City of Hong Kong, Ellerman City Line, Fanara, Fayid, Fleetwood, Haifa, Kestos, MacBraynes, Morecambe, New Brighton, Port Said, Post War Credit Notes, ROF Dalmuir, ss Dominion Monarch, ss Exodus, ss Franconia, ss President Wharfield, Tucks Post Card, Winston Churchill, Zamalek
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Part Two 1: Fresh and Innocent
Part Two 1: Fresh and Innocent “I’m so happy you are as you just are, so fresh and innocent and yet with that wee bit of worldly wisdom which is such a safeguard. Your stay in the East will … Continue reading
Posted in Cairo 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Suez Canal Zone, Womens History
Tagged Auchendrennan, British atomic bomb, British Stores Disposals Mission, Cairo, Civil Service Clerical Association, Clement Atlee, Clothing coupns, Emanuel Shinwell, Gezira, India Rubber Co., King Farouk, Loch Lomond Youth Hostel, Ministry of Supply, prefabs, Sauchiehall Street, Shepheards Hotel, Squatting, Suez Canal Zone, Thomas Cooks
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