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Fictional favourite
I studied History at school until A’ Level and am still interested in the way in which is taught. Upon recently rereading one of my favourite books in the Education in Literature Collection, To serve them all my days by … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914-1918, authors, BBC TV, Boarding Schools, collections, Devon, dramatists, England, history, hsistory teachers, male teachers, novelists, novels, private schools, R. F. Delderfield, schools in TV series, shell-shock, social history, teaching, Television, West Buckland School, West Country, World War
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Convent days
Frost in May by Antonia White (1899-1980) was first published in 1933.It was republished in 1978 by Virago Press as the first of its Modern Classics. We meet the narrator and heroine Nanda (Fernanda) Grey when she is enrolled, aged … Continue reading
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