Dr. Eliza Philby

Tell us about the Second World War.

Tell us about, you know, what it was like being, you know, a woman on a motorbike in the 1930s.

Very unheard of.

You know, just it's that connection to the past.

that feels, that you want to feel.

We're so connected to the future and the present now.

But, you know, we've lost that personal, that emotional, that actual connection to the past down the generations.

And I always felt that very viscerally in my family because we lived in the house that my grandfather had won in a card game.

Card game?

Yeah, he was a gambler.

He was a serious gambler.

My father, yeah, he was.

Well, no, what he did was, this is very, very clever.

Once he won it, he put the deeds to the house in his wife's name, my grandmother, so he couldn't gamble it again.

Right, that's the key.

But the point is, is my dad is now buried in the garden of that house.

So there's so much.

It's just all, it's very located in place for me.

For other people, it's in different families, different stories, different generational histories.

But the mundane was what I was interested in.