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Welcome to my Website! Here you will
find details of all my books published to date. They are social
histories based in and around Hastings, England. Letters from
Lavender Cottage, Letters to Hannah, Court in the Act, The Long
Road from Lavender Cottage, Host Families Wanted, The Slow Turning
Tide and Austerity Diary from Lavender Cottage. They can all
be purchased online via PayPal or ordered by post directly from
me.
Of my social histories Joanna Lumley said.
“I can’t put Victoria Seymour’s books down. They’re just
delightful and enthralling, a part of history which, unless she
had preserved it, might have blown away, like sand in the desert.”
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If you enjoy WWII history on the home front and the secret pleasure
of reading someone's private letters, then Letters From Lavender
Cottage- Hastings in WWII and Austerity is for you.
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Letters to Hannah looks at WWII on the Home Front through
the eyes of those who lived in Hastings and South East
England, from September 1939 to December 1945. It also
enlarges on the historical background covered in its companion
book, Letters from Lavender Cottage.
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Court in the Act, which completes the trilogy, concentrates
on the work of the police force, the magistrates' and other
courts in WWII Hastings. As the effects of war took hold, there
was hardly any aspect of home front life that was not controlled
by some Government Act, Regulation or Order, putting even more
pressure on already overworked police officers.
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The now famous occupant of Lavender Cottage, Emilie Crane,
returns, to let us back into her life and the daily doings of
her neighbours on the Ridge. What was the truth about the supposed
nudist colony opposite Lavender Cottage? Was the guest house
close by really a haven for left wing agitators and a bolt hole
for the scandalous occultist, Aleister Crowley?.
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For over half century Hastings has been host to
hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the
world. Host Families Wanted, the true story of overseas
English language students in Hastings, is approached with
the enthusiasm for detail that my regular readers expect
of me.
If you are a host family, have been, or are thinking of
becoming one, this book is for you.
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The Slow Turning Tide looks back to over a half a century
ago, when Hastings and St Leonards faced the long task of recovering
from WWII. Full of intriguing detail the book features stories
of Hastings citizens, rebuilding their lives, homes and careers,
marrying and raising families, while enduring austerity and
nine post-war years of rationing and shortage of everything,
including houses
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In this diary the now famous Lavender Cottage occupant, Miss Emilie Crane, reveals intimate details of her daily life, giving us a picture of how one household managed during the depths of the austerity period that followed WWII.
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