Cardus-The Shrewsbury Connection

We have produced seven books from the Archive’s now extensive resources, the latest of which is “Cardus: The Shrewsbury Connection” a limited edition of 100.

This brand new Cardus study is a heartfelt homage to Cardus and his time in Shrewsbury, and at Shrewsbury School especially, where he spent five summers as assistant cricket coach between 1912 and 1916 – hugely influential years for Cardus in terms of his development as man, writer, and even (it might be said) cricketer. His very presence there, transplanted from the mean streets of old Rusholme, had something of the miraculous about it – although Cardus himself had nudged matters in the right direction with an audacity bordering on recklessness, belying the shyness he often laid claim to.

Once settled there, Cardus thrived. He benefited from the patronage of a charismatic head (who also used him for secretarial duties and encouraged him in the use of the school library, facilitating Cardus’s personal programme of self-education) – as well as from his partnership with the senior cricket pro, Yorkshire and England all-rounder Ted Wainwright.

It was a time of bliss enjoyed within a great historic town and the verdant setting of the School playing fields. It was a place that stayed in the heart, a land of lost content that was nevertheless a stepping stone for Cardus into the world of the Manchester Guardian and into cricketing, musical, and literary history.

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Cardus: The Shrewsbury Connection” (37pages and illustrated).
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