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He was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys [5] then a grammar school which closed in 1975. [4] [6] His group of contemporaries included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo. [7] His Scottish father originally from Glasgow was promoted to manager [4] of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society, Wembley branch. [8]
Roxbourne Primary School; Roxeth Primary School; St Anselm's RC Primary School; St Bernadette's RC Primary School; St George's Primary RC Academy; St Jerome CE Bilingual School; St John Fisher RC Primary School; St John's CE School; St Joseph's RC Primary School; St Teresa's RC Primary School; Stag Lane Primary School; Stanburn Primary School ...
Ronald Ridout was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 23 July 1916.He was the son of Gilbert Harry Ridout, a schoolmaster, and Ethel Mary née Phillips. He married Betty Elsie Dolley on 10 February 1940, and had three children, Jessica, Simon and Veronica.
The We Were There books are a series of historical novels written for children. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap . Each book in the series is a fictional retelling of an historical event, featuring one or more children as primary characters.
Richard Parsons (born 1966) of Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, is a former teacher and the author of a series of best-selling GCSE study guides.In a league table of the top UK authors, by number of books sold, compiled by The Bookseller magazine, for the period 2000–2009, he ranked fifth.
Each topic has three books and is authored by a different writer. Writers include well respected and popular children's authors, such as Mary Pope Osborne of Magic Tree House fame. The series was discontinued in 2004, but the books continue to be a popular teaching device for introducing American history to elementary school age children.
My Story is a series of historical novels for children published by Scholastic UK. They are similar to the Dear America series, each book is written in the form of the diary of a fictional young woman or man living during an important event in history. Most of the books feature British characters and history, but some are about non-British ...
The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...