Linda’s latest blog focuses on Dylan and Caitlin’s stay in Blashford, Hampshire, shortly after their marriage. Before Dylan Thomas married Caitlin Macnamara in July 1937, neither had met their prospective parents-in-law. On discovering their wedding plans, Dylan’s brother-in-law, Haydn Taylor, …
In Linda’s latest blog, she looks at another unusual space in which Dylan used to write. In recent years, the humble garden shed has regained popularity as a multipurpose domestic space to ‘escape’ to. Furthermore, log cabins, gypsy caravans, and …
In her final blog (for now) on Nancy Thomas, Katie discovers what happened to her after the war. Although Nancy’s husband, Gordon Summersby, initially remained in India working for IBM after the War, Nancy returned to England. It is difficult …
In Blog 4 of 5, Katie focuses on Nancy’s life from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. ‘There must have been more to Nancy than met the eye’ – Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas by Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett We …
In the summer of 1945, Dylan Thomas was invited by the BBC to write another piece for the ‘Children’s Hour’ programme, following the successful broadcast of ‘Reminiscences of Childhood’. He wrote to Lorraine Jameson at the BBC in Cardiff: ‘Thank …
