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Obscuring the Light
Paintings by Jamie Bruce-Lockhart, from Cyprus to Suffolk.Profits from the sale of this book will go to James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sandra Chapman Centre.
Sedbergh Letters
A rare and original account of life at Sedbergh School in the late 1950s as seen through the letters home of two brothers, Jamie Bruce Lockhart and Sandy, the late Baron Bruce Lockhart, Kt, OBE, who were boarders at School House. Although very close and only one year apart in age, the boys' different interests, outlook and style of letter-writing gives this view of school life a rare dual perspective. The letters, edited with an introduction and copious annotations by Jamie, provide a fascinating picture of life at Sedbergh School at a period of transition half-way between the ethos of the period following the Second World War and the new liberal mood of the late 1960s.
Obscuring the Light
Paintings by Jamie Bruce-Lockhart, from Cyprus to Suffolk. Profits from the sale of this book will go to James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sandra Chapman Centre.
Different Days
Different Days is a description by Jamie Bruce Lockhart of his home life in the 1940s and early 1950s. It provides a background for a companion volume Dragon Days, a study of life as boarders at the Dragon School, Oxford, at the turn of the 1950s undertaken jointly with Cambridge anthropologist Alan Macfarlane and based on an almost complete set of their letters home, including those of Jamie's late brother Sandy, Lord Bruce Lockhart, Kt, OBE (1942 - 2008). The author comes from a family with strong traditions of service in teaching, medicine and the church. His early life has two contrasting centres of gravity, one in the northern Bruce Lockharts of his paternal kin, the other in the cleric...
Different Days
Different Days is a description by Jamie Bruce Lockhart of his home life in the 1940s and early 1950s. It provides a background for a companion volume Dragon Days, a study of life as boarders at the Dragon School, Oxford, at the turn of the 1950s undertaken jointly with Cambridge anthropologist Alan Macfarlane.
Suffolk Walks
A collection of forty drawings in pen and ink of walks in the unique landscape of north-east Suffolk by well know local artist and former diplomat Jamie Bruce Lockhart
Suffolk Landscapes
a collection of drawings in pen and ink of the landscape of north-east Suffolk in East Anglia, England, a landscape famous for its broad skies and open spaces. These jottings in pen and ink produce vivid but delicate portrayals of the component lines and shapes of this unique and much-loved countryside.
A Sailor in the Sahara
Hugh Clapperton was one of Africa's greatest 19th-century explorers. Seemingly forgotten for years, he is now brought to life in Jamie Bruce Lockhart's magnificent new biography. Clapperton was born in Annan in the Scottish borders in 1788. Like many Scots of his generation, he saw service at sea as the path to fame and riches in the British Empire. During the Napoleonic Wars, he served in the Mediterranean and the East Indies, and on the Great Lakes of Canada in the war with the United States. After his discharge as a lieutenant in 1817, boredom and thirst for adventure spurred him to exploration in Africa. He participated in two expeditions to map the Niger and the vast unexplored hinterland of the Guinea coast, and had command of the second of these - a full scale diplomatic mission to a region of huge importance to Britain's burgeoning political and commercial imperial interests. Jamie Bruce Lockhart has retraced Clapperton's footsteps and takes the reader through forest, desert and extremes of climate. In this vivid and sympathetic biography, the reader witnesses Clapperton's adventures, hopes, fears, misfortunes and his ultimately lonely fate.
Dragon Days
This is the central panel of a 'Dragon Triptych'. It describes life at an English preparatory boarding school, the Dragon School, Oxford, between 1949 and 1955. Based on hundreds of letters written from the school by three boys, and using other letters by their parents, school reports, photographs and school magazines, it examines the school through the eyes of its pupils. It is a study of all aspects of boarding school life, that extraordinary semi-closed world of work and play which shapes children at such an impressionable age. It explores, in the context of life at one of the most important English preparatory schools at the time, some of the effects of the rapidly changing post-war years, the training in self-confidence, the end of Empire, unusual educational approaches, and the creation of English identity. It is complemented by accounts of home life in Alan Macfarlane's Dorset Days and Jamie Bruce Lockhart's Different Days.
Hugh Clapperton into the Interior of Africa
Hugh Clapperton, Scottish explorer and diplomat, made two expeditions into the interior of West Africa, the first across the Sahara Desert and the second inland from the Bight of Benin. His first expedition in 1822-24, crossed the Sahara to Borno. A second expedition, also an official mission of the British Government, was undertaken in 1825-27 and is the subject of this volume. Clapperton's diaries have been transcribed and reproduced in a form as close as possible to the original raw material.
