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My life
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Showing posts with label
My life
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25 March 2026
Story of my life — my ancestry
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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...
25 January 2026
Story of my life (1)
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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...
27 July 2015
What does a little girl want with chess?
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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, ...
01 March 2015
ESP and the circulation of the
Daily Mirror
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Slender, wiry, other-worldly, but with a manner that could be intimidating as well as endearing, Dame Ruth Railton ... is most likely to be ...
24 February 2015
Cecil King and extrasensory perception
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It was not until after he met [his future wife] Ruth that King went public on ESP [extrasensory perception] and began actively searching for...
29 January 2015
W. Grey Walter and my DPhil thesis
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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...
17 January 2015
It’s not what you know, but who you know
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The lower middle class does not exist in official statistics, nor in conversational contexts, but in practice, when I was at Somerville Coll...
07 January 2015
Recognising that I was exceptional
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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...
09 December 2014
Eight high-achieving siblings, from a poor home
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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 ...
05 November 2014
Oxford admission interview: underlying motivation
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Will Durant (1885-1981), author of Outlines of Philosophy When I applied to Somerville College, Oxford for my undergraduate degree, I t...
23 October 2014
IQ tests and ‘near-genius’
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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 ...
21 October 2014
Crisis at the convent
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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...
23 May 2014
Education against ability
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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...
23 May 2013
Mother Joseph of the Ursulines
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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...
26 June 2012
Academia and the IPR: not mutually exclusive
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There has always been a tendency to represent working in (or being associated in any way with) my incipient independent academic organisatio...
22 June 2012
Worthless ‘degrees’, pointless ‘research’
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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...
16 December 2011
Two footnotes
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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...
06 December 2011
Photos of my parents
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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...
10 November 2011
The anti-authoritarian syndrome
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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...
04 November 2011
Aged one
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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...
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