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Your Family Memoirs Organisational Memoirs Professional Background Advisory and Writing Service A League of Their Own Help and Advice Home	Professional Background. Dr Lynn Ashburner is a professional researcher and writer living in Shropshire. She has published widely, over a hundred articles and books, in a number of areas which include biography, organisational history, family memoirs, oral history and social studies. She studied Oral History at Warwick University as part of her MA and after completing her PhD thesis on Women and Work, continued to work as a university lecturer and researcher. She has over thirty years of experience in researching, interviewing, analysing data, writing and teaching. Lynn is also an experienced editor of books and articles with several publishers including Macmillan. More recently she has extended her skills into the area of publishing itself. Lynn's work is becoming more widely recognised. The Staffordshire Life wrote an article about Lynn and her work in January 2005. The Times newspaper wrote an article on 16th April 2005 in which her latest book 'In a League of Their Own', was discussed. Her two most recent books are: 2005. In a League of Their Own: The story of the Women's League of Health and Beauty. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-9549963-0-5 2004. Benjamin Walsh: A personal account of his years in the Second World War and its aftermath. (Published privately) Lynn has explored her father's family life in turn of the century Lancashire. Her grandfather was an overseer in the cotton mills and her father began work aged eleven doing the dangerous work of clambering over the weaving looms to release any threads that became caught or tangled. He later combined his mill work with evening classes to continue his education. Her grandmother also worked full time even with three small children. The use of child minders was common then but they were unregulated and locking small children in cupboards whether as punishment or for convenience was not unheard of! When millwork went into decline Lynn's father was the only member of the family to venture south in search of different work. Lynn's mother's family came from central Scotland. Her maternal grandfather was injured in the trenches in World War One and was not able to work, so the family of seven children came down to the English midlands in the depression so that her grandmother and the eldest sons could find work. Her grandmother did many jobs to keep the family, including walking into Birmingham in the early hours of the morning to buy fish at the markets and then sell it around the pubs in her neighbourhood.   All the daughters of the family, including Lynn's mother helped out with this and otherwork even whilst they were still at school. Even as a small child Lynn can remember her mother always being busy with many jobs including home-working, sewing the gilt badges for official uniforms. It was during the Second World War when many women were called to factory work that she met and married Lynn's father.
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