Home & Family

Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Home and Family part two

This is my second post on Nora Hampton’s Home and Family, focusing on affective relations and memory. You can read the first …

Nora’s memoir focuses heavily on the theme of home and family and so I have written two separate posts. This one covers …

“… I was the child who loved my parents more than any other member of the family.” (pg. 9-10) Family is a …

“All these relations were so much part of everyday life and gave a wonderful sense of belonging and also a feeling of …

Walter’s memoirs focus on his life up until the Armistice of The Great War, when he was 28. Readers are therefore given …

The first chapter of Arthur memoir is called, ‘Small Beginnings’, which I think is a perfect representation of Arthur’s early home and …

Family is an important aspect of Thomas Raymont’s life, as he goes into detail about his expansive family history. The first few …

“These writings would not be complete if I did not something about the family. We are a united family, not only by …

“The family had closed ranks. At last we were a tribe united against all else.” Bessie Wallis’s account of her younger years …

Mary’s home life and her family are the focal point of her memoir as much of the content is centred on her …