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    Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her...
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  • World War memoir of the same name written by Vera Brittain. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her...
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  • Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain (1893–1970), published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues...
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    Royal Affair. Vikander achieved global recognition for her roles as Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014), a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014)...
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  • his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth. Brittain was born at Macclesfield, Cheshire, to paper manufacturer Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864–1935)...
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  • pianist and teacher Vera Brezhneva (born 1982), Ukrainian pop-singer and television presenter Vera Brittain (1893–1970), English writer Vera Broido (1907–2004)...
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  • British poet and soldier, made posthumously famous by his fiancée Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth. His parents, Robert Leighton and Marie...
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    philosopher Sir George Catlin and the pacifist writer Vera Brittain. Williams's grandmother, Brittain's mother, was born in Aberystwyth, Wales. She was educated...
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    period film Testament of Youth based on the First World War memoir of Vera Brittain. Bailey returned to comedy in the 2014 satirical show W1A as BBC employee...
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  • June 1970. p. 6365. Vera Brittain, autobiographies, Testament of Youth (1933) and Testament of Experience (1957) Brittain, Vera. Testament of Experience...
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  • the Great War, best remembered for being immortalised in his friend Vera Brittain's First World War best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth. [better source needed]...
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  • of the same name written by Vera Brittain. It was transmitted on BBC2. The series stars Cheryl Campbell as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman from...
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  • 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxford where she met Vera Brittain, a fellow student and later the author of Testament of Youth, with whom...
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  • Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow. Campbell is known for her starring role as Vera Brittain in the BBC's television dramatisation of Testament of Youth (1979),...
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    been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers. It began admitting men in 1994. Its library is...
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    University Writers associated with Oxford include Kingsley and Martin Amis, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Lewis Carroll, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, Theodor...
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  • A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television documentary on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first...
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    Buxton Hydropathic Hotel, with the Palace Hotel annexed. The author Vera Brittain trained as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at the Devonshire Hospital...
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    Janet Bloomfield (née Hood) is a peace and disarmament campaigner. Vera Brittain. writer, feminist (and mother of Labour Party Minister and later Liberal...
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    British Army officer Vera Brittain (1893–1970) nurse, writer, feminist and pacifist, lived in Macclesfield as a child Edward Brittain (1895 in Macclesfield...
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    [citation needed] Activities have varied over the previous centuries. Vera Brittain wrote a poem with the title May Morning in 1916. The first ten lines...
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    Episode #2.1 1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Vera Brittain 2 episodes 1998 Merlin Morgan le Fay 3 episodes 2002 Live from Baghdad...
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    brought her international recognition. Vikander starred as wartime nurse Vera Brittain in the 2014 drama Testament of Youth, for which she was nominated at...
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    (1889–1944), writer, politician and barrister, born in Maida Vale. Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer, at 111 Wymering Mansions, Wymering Road. Victor...
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  • writer Katie Breathwick, broadcaster, Classic FM Edward Brittain, younger brother of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament...
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  • Leighton (1895–1915), a British soldier and poet who was the fiancé of Vera Brittain at the time of his death in World War I. Hollis has stated about the...
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  • known for her lead role as Vera Brittain in the 2008 BBC One television documentary A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain and for portraying Jane Corby...
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    Paul and Bostridge, Mark, Vera Brittain: A Life, 1995, ISBN 0-7011-2679-5 (p. 445). Loretta Stec, "Pacifism, Vera Brittain, and India". Peace Review,...
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    are related in her memoir A Diary Without Dates published in 1918. Vera Brittain, British author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth,...
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  • 1979 she played Nurse Sally in the mini-series Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain's classic memoir of World War I. Doctors: episode "Mr Right", (2011)...
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