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A School in South Uist by F.G. REA
£9.99
These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. At that time, the Hebrides were as remote and forbidding to mainlanders as the Antarctic is in the late-1990s. In the 1890s this island was one of the poorest districts in the Outer Hebrides.…
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Frederick Rea came from the Midlands of England to South Uist in 1889, when he caused a sensation, becoming not only the first Englishman to be appointed headmaster, but also the first Catholic to be awarded the post since the Reformation.
Paperback
ISBN 9-781839-830266
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| Weight | 0.277 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 13 × 2 cm |
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