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This article was written by Wendy Tibbitts for the Amersham Society/Amersham Museum newsletter and is reproduced here with permission.
H.N. Brailsford, whose archive is at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, was a journalist and writer who travelled widely, observing and writing about politics, oppression, and injustice. He spent the last five years of his life living in Amersham, with his sister, Mabel Brailsford.
Henry Noel Brailsford was born on Christmas Day 1873, two years before Mabel, and they both had a peripatetic childhood with their Wesleyan Methodist Minister Father who was frequently appointed to new parishes. It was not until Brailsford attended Glasgow University that his intellectual talents began to emerge and he seemed destined for an academic career as a classicist and philosopher. However, in 1897 he felt strongly enough about the plight of Greece to volunteer to fight for them in their war with Turkey. Whilst there he sent back first-hand accounts of the war to the Glasgow Daily Herald and returned from the conflict wounded and with “distaste for excessive patriotism and the brutality of war”. From this developed his dislike of oppression and he became an active campaigner on various issues. Before the first World War he was a member of the Conc
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When I was seven, my father took a job at Oxford and moved us from Texas. We stayed two years. He signed me up to the local football club, Summertown Stars, and sent me to the local Church of England school, St Philip and St James. I was already a competitive, sport-obsessed child, and responded to the sense of cultural difference by exaggerating it. During a classroom discussion – I can’t remember about what exactly – I quoted the great Green Bay Packers football coach, Vince Lombardi: ‘Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.’ My teacher, Mrs Hazel, asked me if I believed that. I said I did. She turned to the rest of the class: ‘But we don’t believe that, do we?’
Many of the frustrations a foreigner feels trying to adapt to a new country can be dismissed as homesickness or misunderstanding. And yet there did seem to be a core of difference between the two countries, which Americans of my parents’ generation complained about (the weather, the central heating, the ice cream) and the British took pride in. Here’s a crude way of putting it: the measure of character, in Britain, was your capacity to put up with something; in America, it was your ability to sort it out. And yet I can’
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