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Tag: ["Biography", "Society", "UK", "PrivateSchool"]
Date: 2021-09-25
DocType: "Source"
Hierarchy: "NonRoot"
TimeStamp:
location: [51.514678599999996, -0.18378583926867909]
Source:
 Type: "Book"
 Language: EN
 Author: Richard Beard
 Published: 2021
 Link: https://www.waterstones.com/book/sad-little-men/richard-beard//9781787302938
 Read: 2021-11-22

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Parent:: [[@Reading master|Reading list]]

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# Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England

 

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'Insanely readable and enjoyable' (TOM HOLLAND, author of Dominion). In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson.
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### Cover

 

![](https://www.richardbeard.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SLM-jacket.jpeg)

 

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### Notes

 

Loret ipsum