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The Enigma of Kidson
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Two part serialisation in the Daily Mail to coincide with the launch of the book.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prologue

  • Eton Revisited
  • Abdul the Camel Driver
  • Private Business
  • Crime and Punishment
  • A Shropshire Lad
  • Toiling Upward
  • The Corner House
  • Beaks
  • A Sheeted Tombstone
  • The Heartless Ramparts
  • Sport
  • Parents
  • Hold On, Jack!
  • Outside the Classroom
  • The End Game
  • After Eton
  • Retirement
  • I Can't Stand the Preliminaries
  • Vale
  • Epilogue
    Appendix: History Matters
    Eton Glossary
    Index

    About the Author

    Jamie Blackett was born in 1964 and educated at Ludgrove, Eton (where he was tutored by Michael Kidson), the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and later Warwick Business School (MBA). After working in South Africa he joined the Coldstream Guards, serving in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War, Hong Kong, the Falkland Islands, Zimbabwe and Germany. He returned to his roots in Galloway where he is now a farmer, forester, bed and breakfast and holiday cottage host, gardener and odd job man and occasional freelance journalist writing on farming and the countryside. His housemaster would be astonished to learn that he is a Deputy Lieutenant for Dumfriesshire and a member of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland Royal Company of Archers. He is married with two children.

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    A Stirring, often hilarious biography of Michael Kidson, a fullthrottle eccentric who taught boys at Eton for 40 years. Think the History Boys meets Goodbye, Mr Chips.

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