| Description | Childhood memories of growing up in a vicarage in Far Headingley, near Leeds, before World War I. Gives domestic details. Society aware of class
distinctions. Memories of World War I. Illustrates the changes in society brought about by the war.
References to child wartime culture: 'Punch' magazine featured propaganda cartoons. Well known songs (e.g. Long way to Tipperary).
Experience of war: heard about war from adult conversations. Recounts memories of neighbours informing family of deaths of local soldiers.
Experience of Belgian refugees in her village.
Accounts of returning soldiers. Villagers cheer wounded soldiers residing in military hospital. Shell-shocked soldiers are treated as 'pathetic figures' and subject to laughter.
Changes in diet: certain types of food become scarce and others are substituted, e.g. margarine instead of butter.
Radical shift in domestic service sector: maids left the vicarage to go to munitions factory work and shops. Women of the household forced into homemaking.
Observations of the end of the war: jubilation, processions and flags.
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