‘My Kind of Thirties’ – Norman MacDonald’s Journal

Extracts from Norman MacDonald‘s 1930s journal (NM-92-005PW002) that relate to his regular trips to the cinema while he was studying Law at the University of Glasgow. He details the titles of, and his responses to, films he saw, and records a lively social life involving dinners and bridge sessions with friends, as well as enjoyable times spent with Molly, the young woman he later married.

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