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New title -- In the Hot Seat at Millfield School By Christopher Martin, with a preface by Estelle Morris £14.99 hardback ISBN 978-0-9539561-5-9 200 pages Millfield School is the country's largest co-educational boarding school. Christopher Martin was its head for almost a decade. As he describes his hectic daily round, we start to appreciate the sheer scale of the task: caring for 1,250 young people from fifty different countries dispersed over twentyeight boarding houses. Successes are many, and the reader will recognize household names among former pupils, especially sportsmen and women. There are darker stories too among the many young lives that the head had charge of. But throughout the triumphs, disasters and sheer exhaustion of his life as head, Christopher Martin's enthusiasm and passion for education never deserted him. Anyone who has experience of teenagers, parents or teachers will delight in this engaging view from the hot seat of one of Britain's more unusual educational establishments.
"This account gives you everything: the successes and disappointments,
the joys and the tragedies, the frustrations and let downs, as well
as the battles fought and won.…this book is not just a valuable insight
into life in an educational hot seat, but testament to the power of
teachers to change lives." Estelle Morris
PUBLICATION DATE: 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 |
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TALKING WITH PAST HOURS
The Victorian diary of William Fletcher of Bridgnorth By Jane Killick £9.99 paperback ISBN 978-0-9539561-4-2 160 pages, 15 B/W illustrations This recently discovered diary of a young banker from Bridgnorth covers the years 1857-60, and provides an unusual insight into the life of a Victorian town, and into the heart of a young man of the time. It includes his love-letters, the coming of the Severn Valley railway, and the ups and downs of Victorian health care. An introduction sets the scene, and the conclusion traces the subsequent fate of William Fletcher and his friends and family . |
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JANE AUSTEN FASHION
Fashion and needlework in the works of Jane Austen By Penelope Byrde £9.99 paperback ISBN 978-0-9539561-3-5 128 pages, 36 colour plates Jane Austen loved clothes, and followed fashion with enthusiasm. She was also an expert needlewoman. Her novels use the clothes people wore and their attitudes to dress to convey their characters. Her lively letters, extensively quoted, are full of shopping trips and visits to dressmakers. Penelope Byrde, an expert in the costume of the time, explains all, from corsets to topcoats: how clothes were made and bought, what they cost, and what was worn when and by whom.
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