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The remarkable biography of a mother of ten who stepped up to run her late husband’s ironworks in Victorian Wales. When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure. There would be ten children, and while John built up an immense commercial empire, Charlotte championed Welsh culture. Crucially, she taught herself John’s business from the inside. Over the years, she made the keenest observation of iron production, the fluctuations of t...
An irrationally optimistic Australian minstrel with a wicked sense of humour takes on the British in the 1970s. It was a way of thinking that was too much fun to last. It came, it flowered and then it grew up and got a mortgage. Tightly crafted and visually immediate. Full of the romance of youth. A must for dreamers and deep thinkers.
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More Collective Worship Unwrapped is a flexible and practical resource ideal for newly qualified teacher seeking to grasp the key principles of collective worship as quickly and as effectively as possible, but equally valuable for experienced teachers, RE coordinators and those invited into schools to lead collective worship.Following the success of Collective Worship Unwrapped, this second book provides a further 20 story-based assemblies to use with Key Stages One and Two. Those familiar with the previous book will find more stories of The Toolshed Gang and The Two Johns, as well as another adaptation of a short story by Tolstoy and a further adventure of Honky the Donkey. Also included ar...