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40 male perspective, and the articles in that particular issue were uniquely female-led and we received a lot of very positive feedback. “The WW1 issue carried so many powerful and emotive pieces, and we had quite a few readers who, after reading the issue, were able to jump into their own family histories”. Before shooting off to avoid a parking ticket, I asked Alex why he thought Past Forward had been so successful over thirty years. “We are 100% reliant on the passion of our volunteers and the knowledge of our contributors” concludes Alex, “Past Forward just wouldn’t exist without their contributions”. Yvonne Eckersley One of the volunteers at Archives: <strong>Wigan</strong> & Leigh and an enthusiastic contributor to Past Forward is Yvonne Eckersley. Leyther Yvonne retired in 2008 as a primary school teacher and wanted to ‘give something back’ to the community. Yvonne told me that she has a lifetime interest in history and that the Archives was a natural choice when she was on the lookout for post-retirement activities. “I felt the skills I had developed whilst studying for my history degree would be useful to the Archives. “I was specifically interested in ordinary people’s history, the type of people whose lives weren’t accurately represented in history books. The experience of writing my dissertation on the rise of the Labour Movement in Leigh convinced me of the need to research and reveal the rich nature of our local history”. A few years ago, the Archives service published an anthology of all the pieces Yvonne has contributed to the magazine and she is currently researching the life and times of Helen Fairhurst (nee Silcock) who lived between 1865- 1951, in the Pemberton and Goose Green area of <strong>Wigan</strong>. But Yvonne has not-so-fond memories of the first task she was asked to complete at the Archives. She confesses “My first job was cataloguing wills written in the 1600’s which was very complicated and cumbersome, and I did think that I was given that job to test out whether I had ‘stickability’, but I survived and lived to tell the tale!”. The latest issue of Past Forward is available at the Borough’s libraries at a cost of £2, or you can buy an annual subscription to Past Forward for £6 plus P&P via the Council’s website here; www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Museums-archives/Subscribe-to-Past-Forward-Magazine.aspx Archived issues of Past Forward are available online here; www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Museums-archives/Past-Forward.aspx
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