Tag Archives: Winston Churchill

Just Getting By: Coping and Learning

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Athene Donald

The pandemic is teaching each of us individually many things. Some may be things we might not want to know about ourselves: how resilient we are; how well we cope with four walls and a screen, perhaps with no other … Continue reading →

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Will Biography be a Lost Art?

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Athene Donald

As a young postdoc I arrived, fairly literally penniless in the USA in October 1977. I had flown with the forerunner of today’s low-cost airlines, Freddie Laker, on his new invention of ‘standby’ fares. You turned up on the day … Continue reading →

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