Piece of Another Period - Four sons and a Cambridge childhood

John Boyd, Robert Boyd, Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd

Sinopsis

Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.
Darlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were half our present ages; the war was no more than a shadow of a man's hand in bright sunlight - possible but not very probable... In a wider field no atomic power or bombs; no television; unemployment and a servant class; no penicillin; no Russian imperialism and a well-established British Empire. We had not even dreamed of Cambridge, let alone three periods of residence and a Chair and Clare.
Dixon Boyd to his wife on their 25th wedding anniversary 19 August 1958
On the Margins of War
Jews, Blacks and Irish
Sex and Psychoanalysis
Who knew Who
Scholarship, Science and Preferment
Clare College as Family
This volume tells us what they then thought and how they then acted.

Disponible desde: 07/08/2025.

Longitud de impresión: 253 páginas.

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