ENGLISH

Jellied Eels and Zeppelins: Witness to a Vanished Age

By Sue Taylor

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
185418248X, 9781854182487
Open Library ID
OL8988956M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2344828 bytes)
Pages
152\150
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

As every year goes by the number of people able to give a first hand account of day-to-day life in the early part of the last century naturally diminishes. The small but telling detail disappears. Ethel May Elvin was born in 1906; she recalls her father's account of standing sentry at Queen Victoria's funeral, the privations and small pleasures of a working-class Edwardian childhood, growing up through the First World War and surviving the Second. Anyone intrigued by the small events of history and how the majority actually lived day-to-day, will find this a unique and fascinating book.

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