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Robert Hume
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Broadstairs
Beats
Biography
Born in 1955, I grew up in Beckenham, Kent, and went to Langley Park School. Teaching career: Teacher: History and Maths, Chaucer Technology School, Canterbury, Kent, 1982-85 Head of History, Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, 1985-88 Head of History, Clarendon House Grammar School, Ramsgate, Kent, 1988-2010 Lectured on Christopher Columbus and emigtaion on QE2, Southampton-New York, Dec. 1992 Awards: Distinction in Certificate of Education, Keele Uiversity, 1978 Kent Teacher of the Year, 1992 Managed the Scrabble team that won the 1999 UK Under 16 schools' competition, the first tournament to be played on the Internet. Writing: LifeStyle feature writer, Irish Examiner, Jan. 2010 - present Southern Star feature writer, Apr. 2014 - present Southern Star 'Times Past' columnist, Feb. 2022 - present Books: Early Child Immigrants to Virginia 1619-1642 (Magna Carta Book Company, 1986) Education Since 1700 (Heinemann Educational, 1989) Christopher Columbus and the European Discovery of America (Gracewing, 1992) Religion and Society in Kent, 1640-1914 with Nigel Yates and Paul Hastings (Boydell, 1994) Ruling Ambition. The Story of Perkin Warbeck (Gee & Son, 2000) Death By Chance. The Abergele Train Disaster, 1868 (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch,2004) Perkin Warbeck. The Boy who would be King (Short Books, 2005) Dr Joseph Bell. The Original Sherlock Holmes (Stone Publishing House, 2005) Equiano. The Slave with the Loud Voice (Stone Publishing House, 2007) Mary Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein (Stone Publishing House, 2009) Thomas Crapper. Lavatory Legend (Stone Publishing House, 2010) Clearing the Bar. One Girl’s Olympic Dream (Stone Publishing House, 2012) The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims (Pen & Sword, 2019) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Hume/e/B0034OMSUO Website: www.stonepublishinghouse.com
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Content
By Robert Hume Verified| Irish Examiner Verified Mince pies are “indispensable at this time of year”, declared Cork bakers FH Thompson & Sons in the at Christmas 1890. Of course, there are mince pies and mince pies, some with crumbly short pastry, others with flaky puff pastry. “Some you eat for the sake of the filling, leaving as much as possible of the crust on your plate”, pointed out pastry manufacturer Krusto in their 1931 advert. Of others — like theirs, naturally — you wouldn’t waste a crumb of “light, golden” casing.
By Robert Hume Verified| Irish Examiner Verified Whenever we switch on our devices, we’re bombarded with AI: chatbots offer answers to our questions when we write messages, predictive text suggests words Alexa can play our favourite song AI-generated deepfake presenters read the news In Arizona and California, we can ride in AI-controlled cyber cabs in Beijing last summer 27 AI-enabled humanoid robots attended a conference and at Teatro Verdi in Pisa, on September 12, a mechanical maestro called YuMi conducted Andrea Bocelli and the Lucca...
By Robert Hume Verified| Irish Examiner Verified Bribing opponents and judges, interfering with equipment, deliberately playing badly, getting your twin sister to take your place, and women being fed "blue beans". One athlete even hitched a lift while running the marathon. A carousel of ingenious tricks, shenanigans and skulduggery mark the Olympic path. "Fair play and respect for opponents" is the essence of sportsmanship, declared Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic games.
Company Info
Broadstairs, United Kingdom