Evolution, Posture and their Connection to Alexander Technique.
When Hugh Massey found himself in the Free French colony of Cameroon in West Africa during the Second World War, he had little idea that the ground was being laid for a personal re
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Colourful biography of a childhood in one of Bristol's closest local communities before the Second World War.
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Glin Bennet has brought together for the first time stories from pilots, sailors, train drivers, soldiers, victims of terrorism, imprisonment and torture, survivors of disaster and adventurers of all kinds who have been pushed to the extremes and survived
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A Story of Refugees from the former Czechoslovakia who survived the Holocaust - As told to Elisabeth Winkler.
In 1937 Sigo Weber was in the final stages of his studies as a medical student in Brno and his future wife Leah was training to be a c
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The story here of a childhood shaped by the First World War, dislocated, then ultimately enriched by the Second.
Glin Bennet's father, from rural Northern Ireland, had gone through the worst of the First World War as a chaplain, and afterwa
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A career begins in earnest now that early medical training and army service are over. But in what direction?
Back in London there was neuro-surgery, cardio-thoracic surgery, more general surgery.
Gradually surgery lost its meaning for him a
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Why keep searching when it looks as though you have it all? Aren't love, security and status sufficient?
Glin Bennet describes his life and career as a sequence of unexpected happenings, where each arrival has been a fresh point of departur
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A biography of Joseph Cottle of Bristol, best known as the publisher of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Publisher, editor and author, he was, effectively, the first to publish the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Southey and Charles Lamb.
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Brian Milton, a Bedminster boy born in 1927, recalls life as a young lad in Bristol in the 1930s and remembers during the war living through the destruction of much of the old city.
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Delightful recollections of a 1930s country childhood on the outskirts of Bristol.
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