Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Ivor Gurney
Born on August 28th 1890, Ivor Gurney typified the fine line that is often said to exist between genius and insanity. His talent for musical composition and poetry hid a troubled mind that the battlefields of the First World War would ultimately destroy. The son of a master tailor, Gurney grew up among working-class people, […]
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Author : web.admin Category : Literary Connections
Tags : 5, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Literary Connections, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon
Literary Connections No.5, shows the links between Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke. [wpdm_file id=5]
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Author : web.admin Category : Literary Connections
Tags : Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy
Literary Connections No.4, shows the links between Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden. [wpdm_file id=4]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : E A Mackintosh, In Memoriam, Recruiting
Ewart Alan Mackintosh was born on 4th March 1893 in Brighton, Sussex, the son of Scotsman Alexander Mackintosh and his wife, Lilian. From this and Alexander’s first marriage, Alan (as he was known from an early age) had one half brother and five sisters and half sisters. Alexander Mackintosh worked as a banker and Senior […]
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Author : web.admin Category : Feature Recipes, Home Front
Tags : Raspberry Jam, rationing, recipe, Scones
As many people in the First World War would have grown their own fresh fruit, by late summer, they would have been making preserves to store throughout the winter. Sugar rationing was not introduced until January 1918, so making jams and preserves would have been popular with many war-time housewives. This recipe for raspberry jam […]
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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Battle of Loos, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Suffolk Regiment, Ypres
Charles Sorley was born on May 19th, 1895 in Aberdeen, where his father, William Ritchie Sorley was professor of moral philosophy at the university. In 1900, the family, including Charles’s twin brother, Kenneth and their older sister Jean, moved to Cambridge, where their father took up a new position and was elected a Fellow of […]
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Author : web.admin Category : Featured Poems, Poems
Tags : Charles Hamilton Sorley, poetry, poster, When you see millions of the mouthless dead
