Author Archive: Julia Barclay-Morton

Micro-History: Our Grandmothers, Our Selves

While researching and writing, The Amazing True Imaginary Autobiography of Dick & Jani, a book about my grandmothers, both born in 1916 (before women had the right to vote) but who cut very different paths through the 20th Century, I got in touch with historian, Jill Lepore. She had written a lovely piece in the […]