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Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract – A review
From 2006 to 2018, Richard Atkinson worked as an editor at Bloomsbury publishers, rising to senior commissioning editor and responsible for some of the most successful illustrated cookbooks of the last two decades, including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage series. From 2010, he was increasingly occupied with researching and writing his own first book, a … Continue reading
Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Books we've read, Legacies
Tags: Legacies, Legacy of Slavery, Richard Atkinson, Westmorland
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Where Do You Begin?
I’m writing a religious history of my family, beginning with my Primitive Methodist great-grandfather, Thomas Robinson, more usually known as Tom, born in 1879. My interest in him was sparked by the stories my grandmother Nellie used to tell about him, in which he figures as a strict ogre and she as a rebellious rule-breaker. … Continue reading
Categories: Men of God, and of Commerce
Tags: Methodism, Religion, Westmorland
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