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Old Wykehamist News
Awards
PA Dillingham (G, 51-56) has been
awarded the Canterbury Cross for
services to the Church of England. He
has been accompanying services at the
Anglican Church in Helsinki since the
1960s.
Books
FP Smiddy
T
(K, 67-71) has written
A Passion for Speed.
Mildred Bruce was
a record-breaking
racing motorist,
speedboat racer,
pioneering aviator
P auL s MiDDy
and businesswoman – remarkable
achievements for a woman of the 1920s
and ’30s. She enjoyed a privileged
background that allowed her to search
for thrills beyond the bounds of most
female contemporaries, racing against
the greats at Brooklands, driving 200
miles north of the Arctic Circle and
winning the first ladies’ prize at the
Monte Carlo Rally.
The History Press;
ISBN 978-0750983662.
he honourable Mrs VicTor bruce: record-breaking
racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and
businesswoman – remarkable achievements for a woman of
the 1920s and ’30s. Mildred bruce enjoyed a privileged background that
allowed her to search for thrills beyond the bounds of most female
contemporaries. she raced against the greats at brooklands, drove 200
miles north of the arctic
circle and won the first
ladies’ prize at the Monte
carlo rally. Whilst amy
Johnson was receiving global
IA Duff (D, 84-89) has
written Football’s Secret
Trade, which is a non-
fiction book about
the financing of
the football player
transfer market.
Excerpts of the book
have been featured
in the New York Times and Guardian.
WH Smith called it a recommended
business book.
Wiley & Sons; ISBN 978-1119145424.
JRJ Gray (H, 97-
02), under the nom
de plume of John
Z Komurki, has
written Risomania:
The New Spirit of
Printing. It documents
the contemporary
renaissance in
analogue and DIY printing, centred
on the Risograph printer. The book
relates the history of the machine
and showcases contemporary artists,
designers and printers who work with
it. There is also a detailed history of
the Mimeograph, Gestetner, and other
earlier stencil-duplicating devices.
Niggli; ISBN 978-3721209662.
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acclaim for her flight to
australia, Mildred learned
to fly, and a mere eight
weeks later embarked on a
round-the-world flight, becoming the first person to fly solo from the uK
to Japan. captured by brigands and feted by the siamese, Japanese and
americans, she survived several crashes with body and spirit intact, and
became a glittering aviation celebrity on her return.
a thoroughly modern woman, she pushed similar boundaries in her
unconventional love life and later became britain’s first female airline
entrepreneur. This is the story of a charismatic woman who defied the
conventions of her time, and loved living life in the fast lane.
£14.99
90100
Shifting Sand is
the journal of J
Berry (F, 59-63),
then a 17-year-
old archaeologist,
written on-site during
excavations in Deir
Alla, Jordan, in 1964.
The dig was organized
by the University of Leiden and led by Dr
Henk Franken, who was looking to find
a material context for Old Testament
narratives, and to build a stratigraphic
chronology to mark th e transition from
the Bronze through to the early Iron
Age based mainly around pottery finds.
Above all this book should be read as
a fascinating insight into the lives of
archaeologists over 50 years ago, and the
Ian Brockington
(C, 49-54) has
published another
book: The Psychoses
of Menstruation
and Childbearing,
Cambridge University
Press, £100, Cambridge University Press;
ISBN 978-1107113602.
The Hon Peter
Jay (C, 50-55)
is publishing his
memoirs: An
Unfinished Life. They
describe his life up to
1979, when he left
Washington, with a
chapter on Win Coll;
ISBN 978-1999760502.
Copies are available for £25 incl. P&P
via [email protected]
Hugh Aldersey-
Williams is the author
of a recent book,
The Adventures of Sir
Thomas Browne in the
21 st Century.
A profound and
delightful book,
mixing biography,
etymology, cultural history and quixotic
scientific experiments. Aldersey-
Williams pulls the unfairly- neglected yet
enormously influential writer Sir Thomas
Browne (1605-82, OW) into the 21st
century, to apply his generous curiosity
and rational intelligence to the vagaries
and contradictions of life today.
Granta Books; ISBN 978-1847089021
very close links between the European
team, the Arab workmen, and the daily
life in a simple mud-brick village.
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd;
ISBN: 978-
1784916596.
T h e D ari n g L i fe o f M i LD reD ,
T h e h o n o u r ab Le M rs V i cTo r b ru ce
9 780750 983662
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
Allen Warren
has produced
Eric James and
the Founding of
the University
of York. James
was a don at Win Coll 1933-45, High
Master of Manchester Grammar School
and then the first Vice-Chancellor of the
University of York. The book contains
significant sections on Win Coll.
Borthwick Paper 126;
ISBN 978-1904497615.