Mary Denison (1906-1997): Home and Family (1/2).
‘It was a strange, unexpected house – one moved from one century to another as one walked through it.’ (3) Mary Denison’s …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling.
‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): War and Memory
At the commencement of the First World War, Frank and his family were living in the village of Withyham. Frank admits that …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Researching Writing Lives
Approaching this module, I was apprehensive, despite having experience of blogging due to taking the Social Media module in my second year. …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Life and Labour Part One
Despite naming his memoir ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’, Frank initially had no interest in working on the railway. Frank writes that ‘I …
Doris Hunt (1900) : Purpose and Audience
Doris Hunt starts her memoirs off in a very normal fashion, telling us her date and place of birth, ‘I was born …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Biographical Entry
2:638 PREVETT, Frank, ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’, TS, pp.347 (c.150,000 words). BruneI University Library. Born 1904 in Brighton. Father and grandfather were …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Home and Family
For the most part Frank’s memoir does not go into much detail into his family life. Most of his memoir goes into …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Education and Schooling- Part Two
For the last two years this place had taught me all I knew, which wasn’t much. It had sustained me as best …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): An Introduction
Frank Prevett’s memoir entitled ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’ is a thorough account of his life working on the railway through his numerous …