{"product_id":"piece-of-another-period-four-sons-and-a-cambridge-childhood-paperback","title":"Piece of Another Period: Four sons and a Cambridge childhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert And John Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were half our present ages; the war was no more than a shadow of a man's hand in bright sunlight - possible but not very probable... In a wider field no atomic power or bombs; no television; unemployment and a servant class; no penicillin; no Russian imperialism and a well-established British Empire. We had not even dreamed of Cambridge, let alone three periods of residence and a Chair and Clare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDixon Boyd to his wife on their 25th wedding anniversary 19 August 1958\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Margins of War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJews, Blacks and Irish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSex and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho knew Who\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScholarship, Science and Preferment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClare College as Family\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume tells us what they then thought and how they then acted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52717196411154,"sku":"9781836151630","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/RHLrDn_Ik-9781836151630.webp?v=1789721491","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/piece-of-another-period-four-sons-and-a-cambridge-childhood-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}