An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea
memoirs of a 1950s nhs health visitor
$31.82
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2018
Summary
An Armful of Babies: A Health Visitor’s Story of Post-War England
A touching and warm-hearted memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England.
After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official District Health Visitors, attending to mothers and babies from all walks of life in the picturesque village near Coventry she came to call home. Social work was uncharted territory at the time, and Britain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473671492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473671493 |
| Author: | Molly Corbally |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 168mm x 21mm |
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Enchanting – Sunday Post
A great discovery … a wonderfully intimate sense of everyday life in a now-vanished Britain - Reader’s Digest
Enchanting - Sunday PostAbout The Author
Molly Corbally
Molly Corbally served as a nurse in World War II, and on returning to England became one of the first District Health Visitors in the newly-formed NHS. She worked in the rural Midlands between 1940s-70s. She died in 2012, but her book was rediscovered in 2016 and republished here.
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