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Soft Words Butter No Parsnips: The Life and Times of John Iliffe Poole (Paperback)

by Lynda A Franklin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 183 pages
  • Publisher: Wunjo Press; 1 edition (1 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954877829
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954877828
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 698,519 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The epic life of an ordinary man, 9 Jul 2008
By Hector Proud (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a book that demonstrates that great history is not only to be found in the grand tomes of academics and established historians; and that extraordinary stories can be found in the most ordinary of places - in this case, amongst the shoeboxes, family scrapbooks and dusty photo-albums of the author's own attic.

Soft Words tells the story of the extraordinary life of Lynda Franklin's grandfather, John Iliffe Poole - a life that began in the late Victorian era in the Scottish Borders and finished in the computer age in Dorset.

As anyone born in the late 19th century who was destined to live a long life, John Poole was to be a witness to, participant in and victim of the relentlessly turbulent 20th century - not least the British Army at the height of its imperial pomp; the mud and blood of the trenches; the civil unrest and painful restructuring of an interwar society; the sacrifices of the home front during WW2; and the advent of post-war modern age on a dormant rural community.

Using personal correspondence, photographs, scrapbook mementos and her own recollections, Lynda Franklin threads a coherent and fast-paced narrative of an ever-changing world. The effect is to create a very personal social history of the broad sweep of the century from the perspective of an individual at ground-level, whilst also telling the truly uplifting and moving story of Poole's own life.

The vivid picture of this kind, friendly, community-minded man's personality and life - and the stoical determination that underpinned it - provide both inspiration and a melancholic nostalgia for the values of a bygone era.

No sooner had I put the book down, then I was filled with an overwhelming urge to visit Poole's village community idyll in Dorset, such was the resonant strength of the sweep of his life-story.

In an age of burgeoning interest in family history, Soft Words should act as a clarion call to all genealogists, and remind them that behind the names and dates on the census rolls and parish registers, and amongst the old shoe boxes and photographs in the attic, there can often be found stories and lives fascinating and powerful enough to provide a truly engaging history in their own right.
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