In her final blog (for now) on Nancy Thomas, Katie discovers what happened to her after the war. Although Nancy’s husband, Gordon Summersby, initially remained in India working for IBM after the War, Nancy returned to England. It is difficult …
In Blog 4 of 5, Katie focuses on Nancy’s life from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. ‘There must have been more to Nancy than met the eye’ – Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas by Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett We …
In the summer of 1945, Dylan Thomas was invited by the BBC to write another piece for the ‘Children’s Hour’ programme, following the successful broadcast of ‘Reminiscences of Childhood’. He wrote to Lorraine Jameson at the BBC in Cardiff: ‘Thank …
Dylan Thomas often wrote about Christmas, talking about it in his letters, and most famously, in his story ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’. He created some beautiful images to help us imagine his childhood Christmases, and we’re using some of …
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Katie Bowman takes up Nancy’s story in 1932. Read on to find out what happens next in her life. ‘My only sister passed through the stages of longlegged schoolgirlishness, shortfrocked flappery and social snobbery into a comfortable married life.’ – …
