Acknowledgements
These acknowledgements refer both to the original text, written in 1976 as a dissertation for a Masterâs degree in Adult Education and Community Development in the Department of Education of the University of Edinburgh; and also to its transformation into the present book, now published by Brill | Sense.
I acknowledge with thanks the work of Mrs May Willimot, who typed the original text. I thank my late friends Tom Leonard, Bob Tait and Kenneth Simpson for their permission to quote from their poetry.
I thank Dr Eleanor Bell and Victoria Peters of the University of Strathclyde for their help and support in so many ways. I thank Professor Sarah Banks of Durham University for her Foreword, Professor Linden West of Canterbury Christ Church University for his Foreword and Rob Hunter for his Afterword. I thank John Bennett and Jolanda Karada of Brill | Sense for their patience and support over the last year. I thank Angela Madin, Senior Librarian in North-east Derbyshire and her team for their help in selecting images, and Alice Hamilton-Beer of Edinburgh University for her help in transmitting images.
Finally I thank my wife and partner Gerri Kirkwood, our children Paul and Anna, and our grandchildren Rachel, Peter, David, Sean and Stella for our lives together.