Emily Tellwright

Author, Artist, Publisher

Category: History

Articles about history from Emily Tellwright’s blog.

  • Don’t Mention the War: Memories of World War II

    Don’t Mention the War: Memories of World War II

    Memories of World War II

    I hope it will surprise no one reading this to learn that I am not old enough to have direct memories of World War II. I am however, old enough to have grown up among people who not only lived through ‘The War’ as it was universally called, but were constantly remembering it. People whose lives had been permanently shaped by it, sometimes dramatically. In my youth I was sick of hearing about the whole thing.

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  • Merry Christmas

    Preparations for Christmas: an acrylic painting of a wood burning stove with wrapped parcels, flask, tea, brandy glass and a mince pie set out in front of it on a red fabric and white fur cape.

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