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Fenland Facts and Fancies
Woman's Work is Never done
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This compilation of women’s work has several
sources: interviews from the Seventies and
Eighties for the Farmland Museum Sound Archives
(visitors told such wonderful stories that it
seemed a good idea to record them “on tape” so
that other people could listen to them). Family
anecdotes told round the fire when I was a child
(no TV or computers in the War years) and the
realisation that the role of women has changed
so much since my grandmothers’ were married in
the early years of the 20th Century. Students
from Homerton College Department of History
related oral history to exhibits in the museum,
completing a set of four teaching files: in 1977
the museum was awarded a grant to buy and
install ‘listening posts’ so that more use could
be made of the tapes and they have also been
used in such BBC Radio programmes as “The
Archive Hour”. By producing this book it will
ensure that memories of “How we used to live”
will reach a wider audience and that children of
the 21st Century will have some idea of the hard
times in which their ancestors lived in the area
around Ely in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
PDF Women's Work Is Never Done complied by Lorna
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