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Listen again: Ysenda Maxtone Graham on clergy holidays and the significance of the school summer break

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12 August 2021

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THIS week’s podcast provides a chance to listen again, or perhaps for the first time, to an interview with Ysenda Maxtone Graham, which was first posted in July last year. She talks about her book British Summer Time Begins: The school summer holidays 1930-1980 (Little, Brown), which is now available in paperback from the Church Times Bookshop for £9.99.

She also talks about holidays and churchgoing, which she wrote about last year for the Church Times (Features, 17 July 2020); Christian house-swaps and clergy holidays; and how the school summer-holiday experience has changed.

British Summer Time Begins is reviewed here by the Ven. Dr Lyle Dennen. 


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