Robert Oakeshott
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Robert Oakeshott

The Quintessential English Eccentric

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Robert Oakeshott

The Quintessential English Eccentric

About this book

Robert Oakeshott was of a man of humorous eccentricity and intoxicating discourse, a man of many lives. As an Oxford undergraduate in 1956 he hitch-hiked into Budapest at the height of the student-led revolution, carrying nothing but moral support and a suitcase of penicillin. Then foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, key development officer in Zambia at the time of independence, alternative educationist in Botswana. He founded a think tank in the UK to promote justice and fairness in the workplace through employee ownership, an economic model that he took to Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Simultaneously, he was a generous philanthropist who played a leading role in the founding of pioneering charities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Background and Childhood
  10. Chapter 2: Tonbridge School, 1946–1951
  11. Chapter 3: National Service, 1951–1953
  12. Chapter 4: The Oxford Years, 1953–1956
  13. Chapter 5: Eastern Europe, 1956
  14. Chapter 6: Into the Heart of the Revolution, 1956
  15. Chapter 7: Sunderland Echo, 1957–1958
  16. Chapter 8: Financial Times, 1958–1964
  17. Chapter 9: Zambia, 1964
  18. Chapter 10: Development Planning, 1964–1966
  19. Chapter 11: Politics and a New Beginning, 1966
  20. Chapter 12: Botswana, Education and Diamonds
  21. Chapter 13: Shashe River School, 1968–1971
  22. Chapter 14: Planning a Builders’ Cooperative, 1972–1973
  23. Chapter 15: Sunderlandia, 1973–1978
  24. Chapter 16: The Founding of Job Ownership Limited
  25. Chapter 17: The Growth of Employee Ownership
  26. Chapter 18: Spreading the Word
  27. Chapter 19: New Pathways
  28. Chapter 20: Robert Oakeshott – Memories
  29. Notes
  30. Index