About Rob Donovan |
- Grammar-school educated in Dartford, Kent.
- Scholarship to St Catherine’s, Oxford, to read History.
- Thirty years plus at the chalk-face – the love affair with teaching the young never diminished.
- Degrees: Four Masters and one Doctorate.
- A creative life now as an author.
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The Road To Corbyn |
- Inspired by Bunyan’s tale, I wrote a modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress through the lifetime of the 2010 - 2015 U.K. Government: a political fantasy called ‘Deception’ – later extended and retitled.
- 'The Road To Corbyn' serves as A Young Person’s Guide to Politics
- This socialist work will stimulate Telegraph and Guardian readers alike.
- A must-read for Labour Party members.
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Jago Stone |
- My present literary venture – a biography of Jago Stone (1928-1988), artist.
- Little known now, in his own work ‘The Burglar’s Bedside Companion – Astounding true-life confessions of a super crook’ (1975) Jago wrote: “Since prison … I have probably sold more paintings than any other artist in the country”.
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Other Writings ...... |
The Death of Difference
My Lament For Education - 2009.
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What's Wrong With Schools
My Lament For Education - 1984.
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Drink In Victorian Norwich
A Doctoral Thesis - 2003
This thesis maintains that Victorian social cohesion depended to a significant degree on drink. In Norwich and other urban centres.
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Under The Surface In St Ives
Mining History
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Ronald Edward Watkins
A Letter and a Eulogy - 2013 - 2015.
In the ninety years that were graced to him, he rose to challenges, he achieved; he fulfilled his potential. He was a scholar who could have followed an academic pathway through life.
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