Blogs in February 2021

Flights of Fantasy: An Evocation of Life During and Between Two World Wars 17th February 2021

My name is George Munday. I was born on 11 January 1904 in Ramsgate, a thriving fishing port in Kent on the south-east English coast. Dad was a skipper on a wooden, clinker-built fishing smack on which I often...

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Things a Bright Girl Can Do 11th February 2021

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and...

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Troublemakers 11th February 2021

In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing but look what happened. Fifteen-year-old Alena...

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The Art of Death 10th February 2021

Death is an art, and he is the master . . . Three glass cabinets appear in London’s Trafalgar Square containing a gruesome art installation: the floating corpses of three homeless men. Shock turns to horror when it becomes...

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Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers 9th February 2021

The Fusgeyers were the thousands of Jewish Romanian men and women who, unwilling to tolerate anti-Semitism, left their country on foot between 1899 and 1907, and headed for North America. Destitute but resolute, they supported themselves by giving theatrical...

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