I made a rare visit to the town I was born and grew up in at the weekend. I was there to promote my book, ‘The Naples of England’, about my upbringing in the 1950s and 1960s on a council estate in the town. Coincidentally, the Social Mobility Commission had reported only this week on the Read the full article…
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Peninsular days
(In the deep mid-winter of 2003/4, I hit upon the idea of walking the 630-mile South West Coast Path. I envisioned this would take as long as it took although my tentative plan was to make two week-long trips each year over four years. I invited many of my friends to accompany me on each leg Read the full article…
A job interview, a demagogue, a real-life squire – and not many equal ops!
(An extract from Chapter 9 of ‘The Ragged Weave of Yesterday’ by Andy Christopher Miller. The verbatim extracts in italics are from the 1972 volume of my diaries) Mon 22nd May 1972 – The school was a very pleasant building – an old village school hall with new rooms built into it … There were Read the full article…