This is the story of my life, but I can see much of myself in my parents, so I will start with them. My mother was, strictly speaking, a...

I have not found it easy to write the story which follows. I am aware that I live in a society where the ideological trends and taboos which...

When I was about 6, my parents and I moved back to Gants Hill in East London after having been evacuated during the war. After we returned, ...

Slender, wiry, other-worldly, but with a manner that could be intimidating as well as endearing, Dame Ruth Railton ... is most likely to be ...

It was not until after he met [his future wife] Ruth that King went public on ESP [extrasensory perception] and began actively searching for...

copy of a letter to an academic W. Grey Walter (1910-1977) Writing about the Perrott Studentship with which I returned to Oxford in a...

The lower middle class does not exist in official statistics, nor in conversational contexts, but in practice, when I was at Somerville Coll...

When I was at Somerville College, Oxford, I got to know Mary Adams of the BBC, who was the mother of a college friend of mine, and hand in g...

Celia Green  with one of  her uncles, Leonard Green It was not only the case that my father came top of the grammar school scholarship ...

Will Durant (1885-1981), author of Outlines of Philosophy When I applied to Somerville College, Oxford for my undergraduate degree, I t...

copy of a letter to an academic People were always implying that I believed things about my IQ, and that this influenced me in wanting to ...

The motto of the Ursuline convent schools I want to write about my interview with my father, after he had been summoned to see the Rever...

copy of a letter to an academic We never get a break, which is not surprising as modern society is geared against ability. There has been...

text of a letter about the headmistress of my convent school, the Ursuline High School in Ilford, who later became head of the Ursuline orde...

There has always been a tendency to represent working in (or being associated in any way with) my incipient independent academic organisatio...

I wrote previously about how socialism had been a bad influence in my life until I got a very modest amount of support in setting up my inde...

notes on photos of my parents 1. My father missed getting a First by one mark. There was an easy explanation of a shortfall in his marks, bu...

My parents were great people (‘great’ in the old-fashioned sense) who had terrible lives. Like me, they were models of what the modern world...

Once when I was at Miss Maughfling’s (the preparatory school I attended) I got sent to write lines instead of going out to break. I was in t...

Celia Green, aged one copy of a letter Thank you very much for finding and sending the scan of the photograph of me aged one. We still h...