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Date(s)
- 1931-2017 (Creation)
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1 oral history audio recording, 1 born-digital photograph, 1 digital surrogate of photographic paper
Context area
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Archival history
Accession number: 2019-36
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Scope and content
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Laurence Mizzi was born on the 28th of November 1931 in Vittoriosa (Birgu). He had 7 siblings: 1 sister and 6 brothers. His mother was a housewife and his father had worked at H.M. Dockyard. Laurence lived in Vittoriosa, Gudja and Paola and had a boy and a girl. He had worked as a teacher, a scriptwriter, a school broadcasting organiser and lastly as a member and Chairman of the Broadcasting Authority. He was also a publishing author with his focus being the Second World War. Three well-known works of his are 'Wartime Diary of a Maltese Boy,' 'The People's War, Malta: 1940-1943,' and 'When War Broke Out.'