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Jacky Hyams

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Yorkshire, UK, The United Kingdom

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http://jackyhyams.wordpress.com/

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Memoir, History, Self Help

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My home town: London

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History, especially the 20th Century, is a real passion for me. Yet I didn't start writing about it until quite recently because my career as a journalist and editor took up all my waking hours! I started out as a feature writer, in Sydney Australia, on magazines like Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone and my career as a columnist and movie writer took me all over the world for many years until I arrived back where I started, in London, England and various editing jobs on mass market magagines like Bella and Me. Then I freelanced for many years for many major newspapers and magazines. In 2005, I decided there was a real need for an informative self help book for families with older parents and my first book, Time to Help Your Paren ...more

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Jacky Hyams I don't get writer's block as such but days when I feel tired and my energy isn't at its highest level. I tend to rely on my own instincts.
If somethin…moreI don't get writer's block as such but days when I feel tired and my energy isn't at its highest level. I tend to rely on my own instincts.
If something tells me 'just leave it', I do! Fortunately, when I'm firing on all cylinders I can make up for the flat or do little days.(less)

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Hi Jacky, i am studying history and have an assignment about Womens lives between 1914 -1945. i quoted you in my first essay from your book 'Bomb Girls". I have a second essay that follows on from this, i need to evaluate a published written work on working women. I will use Bombsites and Lollipops. I wondered if you could give me any advice or guidance on this subject? Your time is much appreciated.

Jacky Hyams Hi Stacy,

As long as you continue to attribute my name and the book title to anything you write, I am happy to help. If you are writing about working w…moreHi Stacy,

As long as you continue to attribute my name and the book title to anything you write, I am happy to help. If you are writing about working women post WW2, the last chapters of Bombsites are useful, in that there was a huge boom in London for office workers in the early 60s. For the first time, young school leavers, ie typists and secretaries, were earning salaries that enabled them to splash out on fashionable clothes, etc. The Swinging London phenomenon was partly due to this surge in consumer spending by youngsters. My follow up to Bombsites, White Boots & Mini Skirts, which starts in 1966, gives a very clear picture of working life for young girls in London back then. Email me direct, please on jrhyams@gmail.com if you have any more questions. I don't use GoodReads very much.
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Average rating: 3.79 · 3,378 ratings · 309 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago 3.46 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frances Kray - The Tragic Bride: The True Story of Reggie Kray's First Wife 4.03 avg rating — 856 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bombsites and Lollipops - My 1950s East End Childhood 3.78 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II 3.84 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spitfire Stories: True Tales from Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane 4.11 avg rating — 158 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Boots & Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties 3.47 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines of the Air Transport Auxiliary 4.02 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jennifer Saunders - The Biography 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hoop Skirts and Ponytails - A Fifties Memoir: A True Story of Growing Up in the 50s 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fifty years ago, a 21 year old woman, a stunningly beautiful bride, walked down the aisle of an East End church to marry a handsome but notorious criminal.

Following a courtship which had lasted seven years, Frances Shea had finally tied the knot with Reggie Kray, one half of the notorious Kray twins duo, the East End gangsters who terrorised London in the Fifties and Sixties.

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“The general foreman was a terror to almost everyone, especially us lads. A dreaded punishment for misbehaviour was to be taken to the main floor, issued with a hacksaw and about a dozen blades. A long dural block was then marked off by the toolmakers and the lad earmarked for punishment was set the job of sawing, with a demanded standard of accuracy, the whole length of it. This certainly made us think more than twice about stepping out of line in working hours.”
― Jacky Hyams, Spitfire Stories: True Tales from Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane

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