{"product_id":"richard-boyd-piece-of-another-period-2025","title":"Richard Boyd: Piece of Another Period [2025]","description":"\u003cp\u003eDixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were half our present ages; the war was no more than a shadow of a man's hand in bright sunlight - possible but not very probable... In a wider field no atomic power or bombs; no television; unemployment and a servant class; no penicillin; no Russian imperialism and a well-established British Empire. We had not even dreamed of Cambridge, let alone three periods of residence and a Chair and Clare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDixon Boyd to his wife on their 25th wedding anniversary 19 August 1958\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Margins of War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJews, Blacks and Irish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho knew Who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholarship, Science and Preferment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClare College as Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume tells us what they then thought and how they then acted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boyd, Richard \u0026 Boyd, Stephen \u0026 Boyd, Robert \u0026 Boyd, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54172682518867,"sku":"9781836151630","price":17.13,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9781836151630.jpg?v=1783029207","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/richard-boyd-piece-of-another-period-2025","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}