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When I was ten or eleven my primary school class was taken on a trip to Blenheim Palace. Big excitement…
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This post was updated on March 9th 2019 with the addition of a postscript: A film about Hamilton's life and…
When Norah Neilson Gray (1882 -1931) taught at St. Columba's School for Girls in Kilmacolm her students called her "Purple…