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  • On Claudia Jones…
    • 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 (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

Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again

I’ve been reflecting here on coming of age in the 1950s, and on some of the extraordinary changes I’ve observed Continue reading →

Finding Claudia Jones

When I retired from academic life I turned my attention from the Middle Ages to the 1950s, leaping over several Continue reading →

P.S. Not So Silent

Memory can take you in unexpected directions. I wrote recently about student summer travel in the 1950s, and after the Continue reading →

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