Tag: 1920s
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9th January 2025: The Continued Fight for Edith Thompson
I’m almost a month late with this, but it feels important. 9th January. For the third year in a row I travelled to London for a couple of days to attend the annual memorial ceremony for Edith. (Photo taken after the ceremony on 9th January 2023, the 100th anniversary of Edith’s execution). Last year we…
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Meet Freddy
It seems weird to introduce you to Freddy before officially introducing Edith but it also seemed a good time as it was his birthday the other day (when I started writing this post). Frederick Edward Francis ‘Freddy’ Bywaters was born on June 27th 1902, the second child and eldest son of Frederick Sam Bywaters (1878…
The Hopeful Edwardian 