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Norah | Socks for the Boys!
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Socks for the Boys! My Great Aunt Norah's wartime diaries, 1938-1948. Norah at her 80th birthday party, Donington Manor, March 2005. Please leave comment here Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Joe Moran...
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Dearest Dimples: letters from a saucy sailor | Socks for the Boys!
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Socks for the Boys! My Great Aunt Norah's wartime diaries, 1938-1948. Dearest Dimples: letters from a saucy sailor. He imagines (wrongly) her hair colour in his cheeky signing off:. Jim to Norah, 23rd March 1941. Jim Smilin Thro ’. Norah must put him right, as in his next letter he apologises for ‘the blonde and brunette affair’, adding that ‘being candid, the brunette is preferred.’. With one of these early letters, Jim encloses a ‘lovely handkerchief with Royal Navy on it’. This is indeed a beautif...
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Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Entertainment, Amusement and Mirth. Highlights of the Diary of Dr Adams. Our house, in the middle of our street…. →. April 15, 2014 · 1:30 pm. Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy. These casebooks were dealt with regularly, possibly weekly or monthly, though judging by the Commissioners In Lunacy complaints that the patient documents were not very well kept at the asylum, it was not daily! The photograph and the brief notes about her quiet behaviour being ‘strange for her...
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ladyhilaryjane | Court Whispers: History, Books & Musings
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Court Whispers: History, Books and Musings. A place to reflect on history, books and general happenings. November 8, 2014. November 8, 2014. It’s all meant to be fun; a place to discuss with more that 140 characters at your disposal; to consider what’s going on in the land of history; for recommendations, thinking and review. Thanks for taking the time to read! Bodleian History Faculty Library at Oxford. London Historians' Blog. Austenprose - A Jane Austen Blog. A year of reading the world. The best long...
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Me | Socks for the Boys!
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Socks for the Boys! My Great Aunt Norah's wartime diaries, 1938-1948. Me, Norah (right), my mum and my two daughters, Mothering Sunday 2006 at Elvaston Castle. Yes, I know it is a cheesy photo, but I have very few of me with my aunt Norah (lots of her with the girls, that I’ve taken, but few that I am in…) We don’t normally walk round holding hands in our family – this was on daughterly insistence. I knew when I received the diaries that I wanted to learn to write about them in a ‘different’ ...I came ac...
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I’m in love with him & I don’t care a scrap | Socks for the Boys!
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Socks for the Boys! My Great Aunt Norah's wartime diaries, 1938-1948. I’m in love with him and I don’t care a scrap. 19th September 1941: Went to Derby and bought blue dress material and fed swans in river gardens. I’m in love with him and I don’t care a scrap. I can’t help but imagine this scene. Had Norah decided to make a journey to Derby to buy her blue dress material before reading Danny’s sweet letter? Why should she care a scrap? Or is the not caring a bid to suppress a sense of guilt about Jim, ‘...
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Idiocy: Making the private public. | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? Make do and mend →. November 13, 2013 · 9:42 pm. Idiocy: Making the private public. This blog post was inspired by my debut post on my Language of Access blog. Writing the post made me think of two things visibility and language. So I have indulged myself and extended it somewhat, and went off on a bit of a tangent…. A A person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated person; a simple or ordinary person. Now archaic and rare. Leave...
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Our house, in the middle of our street…. | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. Casebooks, photographs, and institutional intimacy. Trains, tardiness and trade →. July 22, 2014 · 12:35 pm. Our house, in the middle of our street…. Hence the lack of posts! It has been back breaking and eye-sight destroying work, not least as it would appear that many Victorian officials, from doctors, administrators, and census enumerators, flouted all of their childhood handwriting lessons. Alas the latter was a slum area of Bermondsey, but the former is still a pub. The Peckham As...
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What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? | The Other Asylum...
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The Other Asylum…. The place of asylum. Idiocy: Making the private public. →. September 25, 2013 · 10:01 pm. What links Elvis’s scarves and Caterham’s petticoats? The nimble fingers and hard work of learning disabled people. [1]. In an earlier post I suggested that Caterham was not so isolated, and possibly like Opportunity Village, it was a place that carried, or acquired, some sense of institutional pride in the quality, and quantity, of patient work. Http:/ www.opportunityvillage.org/overview/. Decemb...
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