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SCA: Two World Wars and One Gold Medal: The Chinese Labour Corps, the 1924 Olympics, and Eric Liddell

Roy Peachey is the author of six books, including The Race (Cranachan, 2021), a dual-narrative children's novel about Eric Liddell and a young Chinese-British sprinter, and Between Darkness and Light (Eyrie Press, 2019), a literary novel about a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps during World War I. He has degrees from Oxford, the Open University, and SOAS, where his M.A. was in Chinese Studies. He is currently working on a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham and making ends meet as a schoolteacher.

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Please join the Zoom call from 7:15pm, the meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.

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