Save the Children Fund Unofficial Papers: Papers of Jenny Duffy

Privately printed memoir titled 'The Time of my Life: a year with Tibetan refugees, Simla, 1964-1965' by Jenny Duffy, printed in 2019.

Jenny Duffy (nee Browning) was born in June 1946, the daughter of George and Joan Browning. She was educated at The Edgbaston Church of England College for Girls in Birmingham. Her father was vicar of St George's parish, Edgbaston, had been an army chaplain during the Second World War and was awarded the OBE.

In 1963 Jenny was accepted for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in what was the early years of the VSO scheme. She was station at Simla, north India, and worked with Tibetan refugee children in a Save the Children nursery.

Source: Papers of Jenny Duffy.

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Presented, November 2019

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Papers gifted by Professor Eamon Duffy, husband of Jenny Duffy

The Cadbury Research Library holds the papers of the Save the Children Fund (reference: SCF)