My potted memoirs: a box set of memories
Jim Walker looks back at his life from his time at boarding school to national service.
Read moreJim Walker looks back at his life from his time at boarding school to national service.
Read moreIn 1970, I returned to Britain from my teaching post at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Read moreWhat a difference from Uganda in climate! Fort Portal is over 5000 feet above sea level.
Read moreAs I mentioned in the first part of Teaching in Uganda, the teachers’ wives did not work.
Read moreThe school had no mains water or sewage and no grid electricity.
Read moreI spoke Russian and could get by in French and German.
Read moreI wanted to see what teaching was like and my brother got me a temporary job at a school
Read moreAnd that is how I got into Cambridge: no entrance exam, no interview – I just had to receive my...
Read moreIn 1954 all young men had to do two years of national service.
Read moreWhen the war started, I was only four years old, so I don’t really remember much about Christmastime until about...
Read moreThe UK should do what Finland did from the early 1970s onwards: they abolished their fee-paying schools and instituted a...
Read moreFrom 1945 until 1957 we spent our summer holidays in Wales. At first, my parents hired a cottage called Gaerwen...
Read moreThe window didn’t shatter, so I thought that I had proved my point. But it turned out that I hadn’t.
Read moreI was put in Rose dormitory, which slept about 12 of the youngest pupils; we were allowed to take a...
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