Posts Tagged ‘World War I’
A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life
A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”
Read MoreBlue Pen, film preview: Breaking the silence
Inspired by the tragic story of war reporter Dorothy Lawrence, Blue Pen looks at the lives of women journalists whose voices have been silenced
Read MoreHackney remembers – young historians to uncover WWI legacy
Lottery grant awarded to local schools for Great War commemoration project
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