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TuneInWhat can a 1917 short story collection tell us about life on the British home front during the First World War?
In this episode of Oh! What a Lovely Podcast, Angus, Chris, Jessica, and returning guest Ann-Marie Einhaus discuss War-Time in Our Street by J. E. Buckrose.
Set in a fictional Yorkshire village, these stories capture everyday resilience, humour, and quiet courage — from blackout chapel services and food shortages to romances and small acts of kindness amid wartime hardships.
Buckrose, the pen name of Annie Edith Jameson, was a prolific writer who produced more than forty novels exploring domestic life and family tensions with gentle humour. War-Time in Our Street offers a fascinating glimpse of how ordinary people became part of the wider war effort.
References
JE Buckhouse, WarTime In Our Street (1917)
– Down Our Street
Dorothy Whipple, High Wages (1930)
Dad’s Army (1968-1977)
Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter, Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997)
Sapper, Sergeant Michael Cassidy RE (1915)
Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion (2022)
Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
– Shrines of Gaiety (2022)
Angela Brazil
Eden Phillpotts, The Humand Boy and the War (1919)
Jesse Pope
Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912)
Ann-Marie Einhaus & Barbara Korte, The Penguin Book of First World War Stories: From Arthur Machen to Julian Barnes (2007)
