10-Minute Talks
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The British Academy
Keeping a diary in 1941
12 minutes Posted Sep 1, 2020 at 11:18 am.
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How do people manage when their lives are utterly transformed by circumstances beyond their control? Fiona Stafford discusses a diary kept by a woman in 1941, whose new normal involved rationing, restrictions, isolation and air raids.
Speaker: Professor Fiona Stafford FBA, Professor of English Language and Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford