More extracts from Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
‘During the war…the ‘black market’ and the racketeers who ran it, in big towns and cities, were known as spivs. Eathorpe was ...
In July 1715, the country was in a state of tumult. Riots were taking place across England and Scotland, opposing the accession of protestant King George 1st. In Birmingham, protestant ...