Frances Thompson

S4E13: 1945 - War and Atomic bombs - 100 Years of Cox Frances reads more letters from 1945, in which the siblings describe VE Day, VJ Day, the atomic bombs and the July 1945 General election.The siblings are horrified at the devastation in Japan after th...

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Second episode of my podcast about the end of the war in 1945 - the Cox siblings were horrified about the atomic bombs and wondered what sort of world their new great nieces were going to experience (my aunt Judy was one of those new babies, born in summer of 1945)

S4E12 - 1945: VE Day and VJ Day - 100 Years of Cox Frances is reading letters from 1945, as the Machell Cox siblings experience the end of WW2 and VE Day in May and VJ Day in August.In this year of 2025, as we acknowledge the 80th anniversary of the e...

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The 80th anniversary of VE Day was in May, the anniversary of VJ day is tomorrow.
The Machell Cox siblings, my family, wrote in detail about the end of the war in 1945 - plus what they thought about the General Election.

Yes, my great great grandad Rev Dr Cox was a grump, many opinionated letters to the papers. Discovered he wrote for the Church times as The Perambulating Pedagogue.

Yes, please Mrs butler, this boy Derek drew, keeps taking my rubber Miss. What should I do?
Love the school.poems
And...
The teachers in the staffroom, all drinking tea....

I know it from my family letters (not yet visited, I'm in Australia) My family went to church on holiday in Porlock. Think they wrote a full church of 30 was a squash.

One of the family lived in South Africa, knew places Winston mentioned, thought some aspects highly unlikely. Allegedly, Winston knew how to embroider to make a story more exciting and sellable

Inside the Salt Path controversy: ‘Scandal has stalked memoir since the genre was invented’ Raynor Winn’s bestselling book is far from the first time a true story has been called into question after publication. But how does it happen? And should readers really feel betrayed?

Is a memoir true or not? Nothing new in this - my family letters allege Winston Churchill made up chunks of his book 'London to Ladysmith' published 1900.

The Salt Path controversy: ‘Scandal has stalked memoir since the genre was invented’ The Guardian share.google/NiTOIYbN4Exw...

1939 decorated envelope for those who like writing #letters @letterappsoc.bsky.social Revd Aldwyn was in hospital for "stoppage of water" & his brother Bernard was trying to cheer him up & make the nurses laugh. Small son of Aldwyn's friend wanted to know "Daddy is the Archangel Cox getting better?"

My podcast is called - 100 Years of Cox
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Sound bite for this pod describes Aldwyn on a steamship in the Red Sea in 1911. Africa to London took 3 months.
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Just watched a Jericho video of you, thanks v much for historical writing hints - you've given me some good ideas. Cheers. Frances

Great resources for kids as Qld prepares for Cyclone Alfred to hit us.

Their mother said in 1906, no one writes letters properly any more, like when I was young 🤣 She said you should all write letters so you stay in touch, so ten siblings stayed in touch because they wrote letters to each other. Handwritten letters are awesome!

The 100-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in just 24 h...

Can you write a story in 100 words? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 100-word Microfiction Challenge on March 21st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100

Siblings sad, they couldn't post the Budget to Dardanelles and Ber's ship. Many letters of his missing. Some locations described but not named (his ship was at Thasos), some letters get past the censors. Some of Ber's letters described by Vera. Much fascinating WW1 info that I need to write about

Relaxing with crochet granny squares

Yep, granny squares, loads of tutorials on yootube

#PostboxSaturday in Brisbane. At the shops early before Post office opened. "Please use me. I'm real"

I think it was often used as an abbreviation

Great pic!

Prob Princes St in Edinburgh not Princess.

Congrats and looking forward to reading it, love a good Cornwall story. I have old family letters about cornwall hols which I should write about one day

Well hello there 😎

Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell. Loving it.

Procrastination happening here in Brisbane too...

Jen #postboxsaturday is happening now here on Blue Sky

#PostboxSaturday on Blue sky. Woo hoo. An old pic, Tredegar Sq, Mile end in London

Blue sky at school this week, Brisbane Australia

Blue sky at school (Qld Australia) I liked all the lines and angles

I hear you

Writing historical fiction, reading historical family letters, also writing kids fiction