Despite more than sixty years of ‘history from below’, we still have so few accounts of working-class peoples’ lives, written on their own terms and in their own voice. In this masterclass, historian Alison Twells discusses her new book, A Place of Dreams, which tells a story of wartime coming of age and explores how best the schoolgirl’s diaries on which it is based might be brought to life. A former MA Creative Writing student, she asks if she can use the techniques of the life writer and still call it history…