Our lives are enriched by our friendships. Andrew Vickers, who passed away, aged 64, on 26th June, 2022, at his home in Stanton Hill, Nottinghamshire was a true friend and former colleague of mine. We met for the first time in August, 1988 when I took up my first teaching post at a school in Leicester. Andrew was already an established teacher of Humanities and he was a wholly impressive figure: he had an intellectual rigour about him that, unusually for most of the teaching profession, was backed up by a genuine affinity for those whom he taught. The teenagers […]