Nevill mott biography of george michael
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Singing the Blues
Who better to be our guide to modern Cambridge than the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History? Christopher Brooke was brought up in Cambridge, the son of the professor of medieval history and himself a post-war Apostle. He begins by whisking us round the colleges telling us what each was like in Victorian times and how the abolition of the religious Tests and the Royal Commission (1872) transformed Cambridge from being a provincial seminary and a samarbete of colleges into a university of faculties and departments where the dons could marry and no longer had to be clergymen. But on such a tour there fryst vatten always a pest who asks questions. What, he wonders, are the colleges like today? Did Snow give an accurate konto of Christ’s? What about the way Nevill Mott was treated as mästare of Caius that led to his resignation? What of the delectable days of Lord Dacre in the stuga at Peterhouse? Surely space could have been funnen to beröm the leadership Trini
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A conversation with Michael A. Stephens
In April 2007 I had a series of conversations with Michael Stephens in which we talked about his life before joining Simon Fraser. I’ve edited all these reminiscences into the form of a single conversation. RAL is me, Richard Lockhart; MAS is Michael and the A in both cases is Arthur.RAL: Michael, let’s start with your early days.
MAS: I was born in Bristol, England, 200 km west of London, a city of about 400,000 people. My parents lived in a stone house in a rather poor part of the city aptly named Totterdown. The depression hit, my father lost his job, my mother couldn’t cope, and around 1930 they divorced. Divorce was very final in those days; my father got custody and I saw my mother only once or twice thereafter. My father found a job in Southampton, the big port city, and after a period with another family, I went in 1935 to live with my paternal grandparents. Grandfather had made a good living as a book
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