(UK) My father, born in 1912, was raised in a small coal-mining village in the South Wales Valleys. The pit provided a “job for life” for...

My grandmothers and their story (DE) When I was born into this apartment block community on the southern outskirts of Regensburg in 1953,...

The women in our street (DE) I feel as if only women lived in the apartment blocks of my childhood in the 1950s. Of course, this is a...

The children in our road (DE) "Can I go down? Pleeease!!!" was my daily plea to my grandma. This meant that I wanted to go out to play in...

(De): When I grew up, it was important for families with many children and little money to live off the produce from their garden - if...

(DE) The youngest member of my circle of friends, three-year-old Bobby, is almost bursting with excitement waiting for Father Christmas....