TY - BOOK AU - Fraser,Antonia TI - My history: a memoir of growing up SN - 9781780227948 (pbk.) : AV - PR6056.R2863 U1 - 920 FRA 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - Fraser, Antonia, KW - Women authors, English KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Authors, English KW - History KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double purpose. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life ER -