My Grandfather's Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family

by Graeme Davison

A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and from the Great War to his own suburban childhood. This is the story of an ordinary family's journey from frontier warfare and dispossession through economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522879586
• ISBN13: 9780522879582
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Miegunyah Press
• Length: 320 Pages