This will be a fascinating insight into the diary of a Boston clergyman during World War 2. All the gossip and a who’s who of local dignitaries fill the pages in a delightful look at life in Boston in 1942.
Arthur Hopkins, the author of the original diaries compiled in A Parson in Wartime: The Boston Diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins 1942 – 1945, arrived in Boston as the newly appointed vicar of St Thomas’ Church. He was already writing his diary for the social research organisation Mass Observation and he continued to do so while in Boston. He details life in all its glory – the highs and the lows, the hopes and the fears, the mundane and the bizarre and all with the background of a Boston which in some ways has changed little and in others is vastly different. Nicholas Bennett, Senior Fellow of the University of Lincoln and Editor of the Lincoln Record will lead us through the stories entwined in the diaries.
