Piece of Another Period

<p></p><p>Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.</p><p></p><p><em>Darlingest It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were half our present ages; the war was no more than a shadow of a man's hand in bright sunlight - possible but not very probable... In a wider field no atomic power or bombs; no television; unemployment and a servant class; no penicillin; no Russian imperialism and a well-established British Empire. We had not even dreamed of Cambridge let alone three periods of residence and a Chair and Clare.</em></p><p></p><p>Dixon Boyd to his wife on their 25th wedding anniversary 19 August 1958</p><p></p><p><em>On the Margins of War</em></p><p><em>Jews Blacks and Irish</em></p><p><em>Sex and Psychoanalysis</em></p><p><em>Who knew Who</em></p><p><em>Scholarship Science and Preferment</em></p><p><em>Clare College as Family</em></p><p></p><p>This volume tells us what they then thought and how they then acted.</p><p></p>