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  • On Claudia Jones…
    • P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight” – 2019 post
    • P.S. The Windrush Generation – 2018 post
    • P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956) – 2017 post
    • Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again – 2016 post
    • Finding Claudia Jones – 2015 post
    • “A Pride in Being West Indian”: Claudia Jones and The West Indian Gazette – 2012 paper
    • “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country” – 2006 essay
    • “An Editorial: Colour-Bar Act Emboldens Fascists” (Claudia Jones: July 1962)
    • Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island, 1950
  • On Margery Kempe…
    • “This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe – 2015 post
    • Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe – 1983 book
    • Margery Kempe Society (Laura Williams & Laura Varnam)
  • About Clarissa Atkinson

P.S. Mining in Colorado, 1951

Memories elicit memories, in listeners and readers as well as in the one who tells the stories or writes them Continue reading →

Mockingbird Years

Ever since Feb 3rd the media – old-fashioned evening news and Twitterverse alike – has been bubbling with comment and Continue reading →

Once Upon a Time

In 1955, right out of college, I found one of those jobs in publishing so dear to history and English Continue reading →

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