Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Among the papers left at the time of Miss Mawer’s death in 1962 there is an anonymous typescript which sounds as if it was written by Miss Mawer, or someone close to her. It is dated 1954 – which is just the moment when Irene Mawer moved to the Birmingham
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Pageants What, you may ask, have British pageants got to do with Irene Mawer? Indeed, what is a pageant? Until I learned that Irene Mawer’s second husband was involved in pageants, I had never given them a thought. It turns out, that once I had done some research, I had
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Of course, everyone reading this post is likely to have heard of David Attenborough in one way or another – he is a hugely well known British naturalist and campaigner for protecting the environment. During the Second World War, Sir David’s parents cared for two Jewish refugee girls. One of
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Irene Rose Mawer was born on 13th March 1893, to Henry Mawer (known as Harry) and Rosina Alberta Mawer (nee Turner). As the sixth and final child, Irene was born into an affluent family in the Wandsworth borough of Surrey which, following boundary changes, later became part of London. One
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