Robert Elverstone: 2 books
Absent Through Want of Boots
Diary of a Victorian School in Leicestershire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Following the 1870 Forster Elementary Education Act, Albert Road Board School in Leicestershire opened on September 2, 1878 with an average role of 500 children. Drawn from the first-hand accounts of the headmasters in the school log books, this book details the diseases and ailments suffered; the...
Farewell to the Horses:
Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Cady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for his king and country. From the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton, he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps and quickly found that army life made no concessions for an...