Volume 55

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The Fate of the Priory

Author: Cameron Shelley Publication Date: 2017 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team.   The image above is an illustration of the...

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The Veil Lifted: A Portrait of Helmer's Beloved

Author: Linda Granfield Publication Date: 2017   The soft, white batiste summer blouse, the delicate bar pin, the chignon hair-style, and the loving gaze, are compelling evidence that this is a copy of the same photograph of Muriel Robertson, 22, that her fiancée Lex Helmer took to war in 1914. Image courtesy of Ann Schlutter Spitzer. On the morning of...

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"Pleased and Thankful": James Bowman's Diary, 'Rural Profiteering', and the Great War

Author: Kyle Pritchard Publication Date: 2017 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team.   James Bowman was a purebred cattle herder living...

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