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‘We had a boy of 17 with us in the holidays, one of the dearest people I’ve ever known. He was asked to write the enclosed for someone in Canada, & did it in the hope that it might help people to understand that the persecution is not made up of isolated pogroms, but of … Continue reading Holocaust Memorial Day
Written by Matthew Badham George Harris was a confectionery manufacturer who is generally credited with the renaissance of the York-based Rowntree business during the 1930s. This paper is an account of Harris’s life which begins by tracing his involvement in World War I through to his marriage in 1923 to Frieda Rowntree. Enrollment in his … Continue reading Borthwick Publications: George Harris and the Marketing Revolution at Rowntree