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Heather was a Librarian at Loughborough and Derby Universities before doing a PhD at Nottingham University and becoming a Lecturer in European and Global Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
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Stronsay: An Adventure, June/July 2022 Part 2
Mingro. I’d be lying if I said we fell in love with Mingro straight away. Obviously, it was a great cottage in a fabulous place, but the truth is we were dog tired, I don’t think anyone had been in the week before, and it smelt a bit “holiday cottagey” as I remembered from the …
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Stronsay: An Adventure, June/July 2022
I don’t know how we ended up on Stronsay – it was an accident and an adventure. I’d wanted to see the Orkney islands for a while. We hadn’t had a holiday for 3 years because of Covid and Mum dying. I think I idly started googling cottages and found Mingro on Stronsay. I didn’t …
The Nottingham Memory Wars continue
This is turning into an annual event, as the time of year rolls round when I teach module EURO30605 Memory & Identities in European Culture, thinking about the way that the Spanish Civil War and its International Brigade volunteers are remembered. 2021 will be a very different year. Under Covid restrictions, we can’t make the …