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People Like Us Can't: From Bricklayer to Nurse to Doctor in Post-war Scotland: Memoirs of a Brickie from Blantyre
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James Graham
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
July 8, 2015
Pages
344
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781514353004
ISBN-10
1514353008
Dimensions
0.78 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Original list price
$13.49
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Born in the mining village of Blantyre, James Grahamâs parents believed working class people didnât have the intelligence of those who were more affluent. This true story is an account of his journey from accepting his parentsâ opinion to a gradual realisation that he was capable of more. It's a fascinating mixture of personal and social history with captivating and humorous anecdotes. His ancestors are encountered as farm workers, lead miners and house servants in the south of Scotland, and as starving tenant farmers during famine in Ireland. Circumstances lead the families to Blantyre and coal mining, labouring and domestic service. The author's experience is traced from a war-time childhood through leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, a bricklaying apprenticeship, nursing, university and qualifying as a doctor. There are obstacles to be overcome and conflict with authority along the way but the dream of being what he was told he couldn't be drives him on.
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from Createspace Independent Pub (July 8, 2015)
9781514353004 | details & prices | 344 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.78 in. | List price $13.49
About: Born in the mining village of Blantyre, James Grahamâs parents believed working class people didnât have the intelligence of those who were more affluent.
About: Born in the mining village of Blantyre, James Grahamâs parents believed working class people didnât have the intelligence of those who were more affluent.
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