Emma Blowers is a local historian and author of: Around Cold Christmas: A Personal History; Be Ware and Be Prepared: the Boys of St Mary's and the First World War; and The Posy Rin...view moreEmma Blowers is a local historian and author of: Around Cold Christmas: A Personal History; Be Ware and Be Prepared: the Boys of St Mary's and the First World War; and The Posy Ring: a Victorian Tale of Thundridgebury Manor. Having had a career in education and with experience in researching the origins of the Scout movement in and around Ware, she became interested in the lives of the young men who served their country, willingly or otherwise, in the Great War.view less