{"product_id":"the-curator-thomas-bolt-of-cruister-his-wards-and-apprentices","title":"The Curator: Thomas Bolt of Cruister, his wards and apprentices","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile it please God to spare me I shall endeavour to manage these affairs the best I can for the Dear Child committed to my Care. ... I ...can say it with Strictest Truth, I have never or ever shall benefite my self a penny by them.  \u003c\/em\u003eThomas Bolt, on the management of his ward Arthur Nicolson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWould we look back to what we were ourselves and what we have seen in others of her age we would not think severely ... of her ... Inclination to Play. \u003c\/em\u003e Thomas Bolt writing about his great-granddaughter Jessie Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Bolt, best known in Shetland for his patronage of P \u0026amp; O co-founder Arthur Anderson, took under his wing a number of young people in the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. He arranged their education and medical care, and in some cases managed their estates until they came of age. As adults, some of them would become instrumental in the social and economic changes of the nineteenth century, yet Thomas Bolt, the force behind them, has until now remained largely unexplored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these tales of how he managed his young charges and who they became, the book traces Bolt's role in shaping eighteenth and nineteenth-century society. It addresses themes such as the education of middle-class girls, the medical treatment of children, trade during the Napoleonic wars, and Shetland's connections with colonial economies involving enslavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Coutts was born in Lincolnshire in 1958. She studied languages, sociology and anthropology, and for fifteen years she was manager of Fetlar Interpretive Centre on the island of Fetlar, Shetland. Since 2007, she and her family have lived in Extremadura, Spain where, until she retired in 2024, she worked in translation, teaching and developing educational material. She was also involved in health-related projects in Tanzania through the University of Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book builds on her previous work, \u003cem\u003eBorrowed Time\u003c\/em\u003e, which traced the history of the Nicolson family. Her first Shetland-related book \u003cem\u003eMicrobes: the life of Sir William Watson\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCheyne\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for Scottish Research Book of the Year at the 2015 Saltire Awards. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Coutts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e372 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shetland Times Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55900037775741,"sku":"9781910997659","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2996\/3458\/files\/TheCurator.jpg?v=1746001144","url":"https:\/\/www.openbookcoffee.live\/products\/the-curator-thomas-bolt-of-cruister-his-wards-and-apprentices","provider":"The Shetland Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}