Tag: Polaris

• Whispers of Fortune

  For many people across the world, 1961 offered hope and optimism. For others not so much. On 20 January that year, John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States. In Whispers of Fortune we learn how the words of his inaugural speech crossed the Atlantic to be heard by a young woman who was…

  Isabella Muir

  August 9, 2025

  Contemporary history, family life, politics, Post war Britain, research, sixties, social history, Sussex

  apartheid, books, CND, Cold War, family life, fiction, history, JFK, Polaris, President Kennedy, protest marches, racial segregation, social history, social protests, Vietnam War