Tale of the Century: Memories of Life in the Twentieth Century

It seems so obvious: if we want to know about the past, we ask the people who lived through it, while they are still around and able to be asked. I recently spent an interesting (not to say hilarious) evening during a visit from my brother, going through just that process with my father and some old family photographs. The obvious place to find a concentration of old people with their memories is in retirement homes. The Hanover House Association operates retirement housing throughout England, and to mark the end of the twentieth century they have recorded the memories of...