Edward Aneurin Williams

[…]onwards until I left university, I suppose I sang in a Church of England service every day of my life, apart from Hong Kong. So I had to give, I'm an education, we're involved in getting sort of the repertoire of theEnglish Anglican church music from the 16th century onwards in those days. And I the[…]

Margaret Thomson

[…]ldn't even teach in New Zealand, teach zoology in New Zealand, because no zoology was taught in the schools. So I came to England to get a diploma in education with a view of teaching in England. But I found to my horror, that I not only couldn't teach, but hated teaching, I didn't, didn't have any […]

Alan Izod

[…] called major, minor and tertius. So I was as a minor, but most of my school.Stephen Peet  5:14  So it wasn't kind of normal grammar school education. And were you expecting to leave it about what 14, 15?Alan Izod  5:24  No, it is. This particular school, I think, took boys up to[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]//bufvc.ac.uk/bectu/oral-histories/bectu-oh [date accessed]By accessing this transcript, I confirm that I am a student or staff member at a UK Higher Education Institution or member of the BUFVC and agree that this material will be used solely for educational, research, scholarly and non-commercial […]

Mike Fentiman

[…]ere you an only child? Mike Fentiman  1:43  No, I had an older sister. Respectable working class.Neither parents had further education. They left school, my mother left school at 14. My father of 15. And my father became eventually having been a Betterware  brush s[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]p; Mm, okay. And then later on, and this may be after you’re administration, but later on there’s also, mm, mention of, mm, of getting secondary education, a secondary not further or higher education but secondary education - school kids - interested in the materials.  I think that st[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]there wereenormous, there were quite big conflicts in me because I had these two messages thatI’d sort of taken in about leading, about the values of education but also the need to get married and to be a good...[10:36]Home maker?Yes, yes, yes, I think so. And anyway I didn’t go to university. I was[…]
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