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Sixteen writers with a wealth of experience provide invaluable
advice on working in the independent sector; first impressions;
responsibilities and rewards: advice on starting out; child
protection and your protection; good classroom practice;
achievement and diversity; extra and co-curricular opportunities;
the effective use of time; communication with parents; role of the
induction tutor; those who work around you; input and out:
admissions and public exams; balances and checks; professional
development issues; looking ahead: next steps.
One man's accidental journey into uncovering Britain's underground
obsession. A fascinating and engaging tale of metal detecting
history and Britain for fans of The Detectorists. "Richardson
writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to
the soil and about understanding the ancient world." - The
Spectator There are things below the surface that pull people
together in a shared love of history, landscape and the hope that,
this time, something incredible will be unearthed. When a travel
writer is stuck on home soil in the middle of a pandemic he tries
his hand at metal detecting - and is instantly addicted. This
all-consuming hobby takes him around the country, back through
history and deep into the psyches(his own included) of those hooked
on 'happy bleeps'. The Accidental Detectorist is a big-hearted dig
into a pastime sometimes mocked but always enticing. When
locked-down travel writer Nigel Richardson is looking for a travel
story close to his country cottage he turns to a leading metal
detectorist with an infectious passion for the hobby. Before he
knows it the mysteries of the fields are leading him on, into a
world that casts the history of these isles and its people in an
intriguing new light. Sifting Britain's soil from Portsmouth to
Edinburgh, Nigel yearns to lose his detectorist's virginity by
finding a 'hammered' coin - while learning that the search for
treasure comes with a serious responsibility to our common
heritage. As he immerses himself further in the world of metal
detecting, exposing the shady activities of 'nighthawks', attending
rallies and making lifelong friends, a change comes over him. This
country beneath his feet, these people who scour it for clues and
tokens - they are the home he's been looking for.
'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about
listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' -
The Spectator Each new field is hope, each old one reality. There
are things below the surface that pull people together in a shared
love of history, landscape and the hope that, this time, something
incredible will be unearthed. When a travel writer is stuck on home
soil in the middle of a pandemic he tries his hand at metal
detecting - and is instantly addicted. This all-consuming hobby
takes him around the country, back through history and deep into
the psyches(his own included) of those hooked on 'happy bleeps'.
The Accidental Detectorist is a big-hearted dig into a pastime
sometimes mocked but always enticing. *** When locked-down travel
writer Nigel Richardson is looking for a travel story close to his
country cottage he turns to a leading metal detectorist with an
infectious passion for the hobby. Before he knows it the mysteries
of the fields are leading him on, into a world that casts the
history of these isles and its people in an intriguing new light.
Sifting Britain's soil from Portsmouth to Edinburgh, Nigel yearns
to lose his detectorist's virginity by finding a 'hammered' coin -
while learning that the search for treasure comes with a serious
responsibility to our common heritage. As he immerses himself
further in the world of metal detecting, exposing the shady
activities of 'nighthawks', attending rallies and making lifelong
friends, a change comes over him. This country beneath his feet,
these people who scour it for clues and tokens - they are the home
he's been looking for.
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Heads (Paperback)
Brenda Despontin, Nigel Richardson
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R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Sixteen experienced Heads of GSA and HMC schools provide invaluable
advice on the Early Stages; Relations with Governors, Staff and
Parents; Curriculum Management and Strategy; Pastoral Care;
Boarding; Finance; Development & Fundraising; Marketing; Public
Relations; Appraisal. Edited by Dr Brenda Despontin, Headmistress,
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls and Dr Nigel Richardson,
Headmaster, The Perse School.
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Flybe (Paperback)
Nigel Richardson
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R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local
authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary
improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and
central-local government relations during the
mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England,
as a micro-historical case study. Uppingham is a small (and
unusually well-documented) market town which contains a boarding
school. Despite legal changes enforcing sanitary reform, the town
was hit three times by typhoid in 1875–1876. Richardson examines
the conduct of those involved in town and school, the economic
dependence of the former on the latter, and the opposition to
higher rates to pay for sanitary improvement by a local ratepayer
"shopocracy." He compares the sanitary state of the community with
others nearby, and Uppingham School with comparable schools of that
era. Improvement was often determined by business considerations
rather than medical judgments, and local personalities and events
frequently drove national policy in practice. This study
illuminates wider themes in Victorian public medicine, including
the difficulty of diagnosing typhoid before breakthroughs in
bacteriological research, the problems local officialdom faced in
implementing reform, and the length of time it took London ideas
and practice to filter into rural areas.
Edward Thring on Education Edward Thring (1821-1887), who founded
the Headmasters' Conference of prominent schools in Britain in
1869, was the best-known headmaster of his generation. Formed by a
nature-loving childhood in rural Somerset, survival in the
notorious Long Chamber at Eton, a fellowship at King's College
Cambridge and a harrowing curacy in the slums of Gloucester, he
developed the conviction that education was God's work. This in
turn led him to a passionate belief in the potential of every
child. From 1853, over 34 years, Thring transformed a small grammar
school in Uppingham into a widely-celebrated boarding school with
an international clientele. He battled against intransigent
governors, growing debts and the encroachment of government control
over every type of school. After facing potential disaster from a
series of typhoid outbreaks, he relocated his staff and pupils to
Borth in Wales, returning only after securing radical improvements
in Uppingham's drainage and water supply. Although dismissively
labelled "the enthusiast Mr Thring" by the Cambridge philosopher
Henry Sidgwick and King of Boys by other critics, his social
conscience led to the founding of a mission in London's East End,
the first venture of its type. Through two books, Education and
School (1864) and The Theory and Practice of Teaching (1883),
Thring provided a blueprint for high-quality boarding schools, a
broad curriculum and child-centred teaching methods. This is the
first modern biography of this multi-faceted and emotionally
complex man.
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