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  • Geoffrey de Montbrai, Bishop in Arms
    Berwick Coates
    Geoffrey de Montbrai, second son of a poor knight of Western Normandy, is waiting for his brother to provide his share of their late father’s fortune as he reaches the age of twenty-one. He is looking forward to a career of adventure and fortune in the rising Duchy of Normandy which the young Duke William is building, and to winning the hand of the lady Sybil, youngest daughter...
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  • The Perjured Crown
    Berwick Coates
    Two years before the Battle of Hastings, Earl Harold of Wessex and Wiliam of Normandy met - but not in battle. Harold was shipwrecked on the Norman coast, and spent the summer with William. Before he sailed home, he swore an oath, that, when King Edward the Confessor - God forbid - should die, he, Harold, would not try to stop William gaining the English throne.At least, that`s...
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  • Teach to learn, learn to teach
    Berwick Coates
    There is much to be learned about teaching.  But it is learnable.No beginner should be daunted by long words, psychology, jargon, or fashionable philosophies.  Proficiency in it is not a Druid-like mystique which takes decades to master; it is not a rarefied skill accessible only to a gifted few.   It can be done.  So long as one holds on tight to gumption, common decency, and ...
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  • National Service - Earning the Pips
    Berwick Coates
    Between 1947 and 1963, every able-bodied male in Britain turned seventeen was required by Act of Parliament to do two years’ service in one of the Armed Forces (with the inevitable variations and exceptions). In the course of those fifteen years, over two and a half million young men were drafted into uniform of one colour or another. Seventy-five per cent found themselves in t...
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  • The Trojan Brotherhood
    Berwick Coates
    Hector Bliss, ex-officer, ex-teacher, ex-husband, ex-father, and general ex-has-been, is offered a job that is cushy, congenial, and overpaid, in the south of France in summertime. So what is wrong with it? His fellow-employee, Dr. Constance Marshall, is not happy about it either, but will not tell him why.And why too is it about evil philanthropists, ex-Nazis, Polish tennis-pl...
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  • Roses Round The Door
    Berwick Coates
    Many people have dreamed, over the years, of running a tea shop or a country pub.  They have also dreamed of owning and ‘doing up’ a country cottage, preferably one with low lintels, hollyhocks up the walls, and those  Beatrix Potter diamond-leaded windows  like Mrs. Tiggywinkle`s.Berwick Coates was lucky; he made it beyond the dreaming.  But it took him by surprise.  And the o...
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  • On Teaching
    Berwick Coates
    Berwick Coates found it something of a shock when he worked out that he had taught over 40,000 lessons. However, with a record like that, it seemed not unreasonable to suppose that he might have a thing or two to say.Among others is the great truth that the classroom is not a democracy, a salon, a debating chamber, or a symposium; it is an arena, which is pervaded by a semi-per...
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  • Still on Record
    Berwick Coates
    After the runaway success of Nearly Off the Record – the Archives of an Archivist – and encouraged by tweets from President Trump, a government ban in North Korea, and its short-listing for the National Obscurity Prize, Berwick Coates has consented to bow to popular demand and produce this collection of yet more gems from the history of West Buckland School, where he works as t...
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  • Nearly off the Record - The Archives of an Archivist
    Berwick Coates
    When the author, a retired part-time schoolmaster, was offered the job of School Archivist, he thought it might be a good idea; he had just been told that his teaching services were no longer required. However, he had no experience of archiving, and no formal qualifications for it. He had an office with two lockless filing cabinets, a desk, a chair, and a tiny bookcase. No cupb...
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  • Past Hysteric
    Berwick Coates
    Here is a History teacher`s tribute to error - the error which defies correction, the error which has a logic of its own, the error which often deserves to be right far more than the truth does.Which port in Spain did the Armada sail from?El CidWhat was a toga?A rape-around robeWhat does the name ’Christ’ mean?Something has gone wrongWhy was England dull under Cromwell?He close...
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  • The Perfect Christmas Present
    Berwick Coates
    No two people see anything the same way. No two people see even something so familiar as Christmas the same way. It all depends on your point of view.These verses - honest, sad, dry, touching, happy, angry, funny, tragic, contented, smug, mischievous, complacent, wistful, cocky, baffled, fatalistic, grateful, sceptical - tell us how people feel when Christmas comes, or what t...
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