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09/07/2026
Foundation to The Omen: The Books That Shaped a Boarding School Boy at fourteen in July 1976
Jonathan Vernon
07/07/2026
History Was Mint, English Wasn’t: A Teen Diary from Sedbergh School, June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
06/07/2026
From Everest to Mercury: A 1976 Teen Diary of Exams, Athletics and Ambition
Jonathan Vernon
06/07/2026
Growing Up in the Chaos of First Love: Teens, Romance and Easter 1978
Jonathan Vernon
05/07/2026
Boarding School Diary 1976: Latin Failure, Bowie Dreams and a Summer Heatwave
Jonathan Vernon
04/07/2026
From School Uniform to Bellbottoms: End of Term Memories from Sedbergh School, July 1976
Jonathan Vernon
03/07/2026
Coming First in History: A 1976 Boarding School Diary, Appleby Castle and the Summer Heatwave
Jonathan Vernon
27/06/2026
A 20th century swimming pool in a 12th century courtyard: A Sunday Exeat to Appleby Castle in June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
26/06/2026
Packed Lunch to Kendal: A Long Day Waiting for One Relay Race
Jonathan Vernon
25/06/2026
A School Record, Flat Batteries and Modern Bible Knowledge: Sedbergh, June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
23/06/2026
Swimming, Latin and Jethro Tull: A Sedbergh Schoolboy’s Day in June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
23/06/2026
Curiosity, Boarding School and Becoming JV: The Boy at the Top of the Waterslide:
Jonathan Vernon
21/06/2026
Conform, Rebel or Disappear? Lessons from a 1976 Boarding School Diary
Jonathan Vernon
19/06/2026
Swimming, Silas Marner and Saturday Classes at Sedbergh School, 1976
Jonathan Vernon
17/06/2026
A mid-June 1976 snapshot of life at Sedbergh School: classroom tests, Cadet Corps humour, Grubber sweets, and the grinding routine of prep.
Jonathan Vernon
14/06/2026
Eggy Bread, Expeditions and Shakespeare: A Monday at Sedbergh School in June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
13/06/2026
Escaping Sedbergh: Exploring the World from a Boarding School Bed and beyond this Sunday in the Summer of 1976
Jonathan Vernon
12/06/2026
Sedbergh School 1976: A Young Swimmer Breaks the 50m Record
Jonathan Vernon
11/06/2026
Mnemosyne, the Cold Pool and Hungarian Goulash: Reflections on Memory
Jonathan Vernon
11/06/2026
The 1976 Heatwave, while at an English Boarding School in the Southern Lake District
Jonathan Vernon
10/06/2026
The Tartan Rug: Boarding School Memories from the Heatwave of 1976
Jonathan Vernon
09/06/2026
Podcast Episode: Boarding School Diaries And Memory
Jonathan Vernon
09/06/2026
Why I Hesitate to Share My Diaries Online
Jonathan Vernon
09/06/2026
Heatwave – Sedbergh: River Swimming, Churchill and School Sports in June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
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