Poor, old and ugly? This typical depiction of the English witch in 16th and 17th century pamphlets is a stereotype which does not correspond with the much more varied characteristics of the women who were accused of witchcraft in court cases of the period. Yet it still shapes our ideas today, because very little of […]
It is clear from his diary that something Anthony Ryle particularly disliked about school life was the lack of friends with whom he could share his strongly developing interest in politics. He began to overcome this feeling when he started attending conferences organised for schools by the Council for Education in World Citizenship—an offshoot of […]
Some Wartime Writings of John Ryle MD Anthony Ryle’s father, John Alfred Ryle, was a doctor in both general and hospital practice, as well as teacher and researcher at universities. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was Professor of Physic at Cambridge, and after a stint at Guy’s Hospital during the Blitz, […]
The manuscript of Anthony Ryle’s wartime diary, in four quarto volumes, has been deposited in the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum. It is not at present findable in the Museum’s online catalogue, but is in fact recorded as ‘Documents.24999 – Private Papers of A Ryle’, and can be seen at the IWM research […]
In our post on the donation of Anthony Ryle’s diary to the Imperial War Museum, I mentioned how rare it is to find substantial diaries by adolescents which cover the time and events which Anthony’s does. Sustained diaries from people in this age group are rare in public collections for any historical period. It is […]