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Partition

"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details,"  - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…

7 years ago

Under the Radar: The Hedge Hoppers and the Hardest Day

After early mist the morning of Sunday August 18 1940 was bright with clear skies. It came to be known…

7 years ago

The Land Girl

The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…

7 years ago

Choosing books by the cover

I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…

7 years ago

August 1914

August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…

7 years ago

The Good Life

Did you have times like these in your life? Times that you look back on with a sense of loss…

7 years ago

The Golf Links

The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…

7 years ago

Ballad of the Three Spectres

In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…

7 years ago

A Guide to the Agony and Opportunity of School Right-sizing

Those of us who were heads of school in 2008-9 probably remember all too well the pain of school downsizing…

7 years ago