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Part Three 4 Imagine me a School-Maam
Part Three Chapter Four Imagine Me a School-Maam “I always feel so sorry for kids and adults with disinterested and indifferent parents” _____ Mum has been down in Salisbury for a fortnight, and has just returned by train to … Continue reading
Posted in Britain Austerity 1940s, Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Porton Chemical and Biolgical Warfare Centre, Social and Political History, Womens History
Tagged Admin Block Porton, Alderman Road Knightswood, Bournemouth, Cadena Salisbury, Captain Frankie Bookmaker, CDEE, Coco Chanel, Dornoch, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emergency Teachers Training Scheme, Hengistbury Head, I Know Where I'm Going, ICI, Ideal Boiler, Kings College Newcastle, Leauge of Health and Beauty, Marlborough, Mary Bagot Stack, Peely-wally, Peter Scott, Porters Avenue Dagenham, Salisbury Market Square, Scottish Industrial Exhibition 1949, Tattie howling, The Good Intent Chelsea, Thirkleby, Thirsk, Typhoo Tea, WEA Salisbury, Winterbourne Gunner, Woman's Hour, York Races 1949
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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 One: Growing Up in Britain 1925 – 1945
Part One: Growing Up in Britain 1925 – 1945 “Is there any advantage to be derived from having a feeling of belonging or attachment to one particular place? Personally during my 19 years I have lived in many … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Gender Studies, Letters, Social and Political History, Womens History
Tagged 1938 Holidays with Pay Act, Anglo-Polish Ballet, Battle of the Bulge, Carbeth, Castle Archdale, Clydebank, Dornoch, Fords Cork, Glasgow Alhambra, Glencoe, Irvinestown, John Brown's Clydebank, Lucia de Brouckere, Marine Hotel Hunters Quay, South East Essex Technical College, ss Queen Elizabeth, ss Queen Mary, Taits Smile, The Franconia
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