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People Like Us Can't: From Bricklayer to Nurse to Doctor in Post-War Scotland Volume 1: Memoirs of a Brickie from Blantyre by James Graham (Paperback / softback, 2015)

Born in the mining village of Blantyre, James Graham's parents believed working class people didn't have the intelligence of those who were more affluent. This true story is an account of his journey from accepting his parents' opinion to a gradual realisation that he was capable of more. It's a fascinating mixture of personal and social history with captivating and humorous anecdotes. His ancestors are encountered as farm workers, lead miners and house servants in the south of Scotland, and as starving tenant farmers during famine in Ireland. Circumstances lead the families to Blantyre and coal mining, labouring and domestic service. The author's experience is traced from a war-time childhood through leaving school at fifteen with qualifications, a bricklaying apprenticeship, nursing, university and qualifying as a doctor. There are obstacles to be overcome and conflict with authority along the way but the dream of being what he was told he couldn't be drives him on.

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Author Biography
Dr James Graham is retired general practitioner who came to medicine by an unusual route. Leaving school with no qualifications he served a bricklaying apprenticeship then came into conflict with authority because of his objection to war and preparation for it on the grounds of conscience. This led to nursing training, promotion and general educational studies to get university entrance. He qualified as a doctor aged thirty-four.
Date of Publication
08/07/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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