Consistently Eccentric History

Ulric Cross - How to be overqualified, no matter the job


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We are heading off to warmer climes this week. To the island of Trinidad, in order to meet Ulric Cross, a man who can claim to have both helped to preserve and dismantle the British Empire.


After seeking adventure as part of the RAF in WWII, Ulric yearned to reinvent himself as a lawyer. Struggling for opportunities in England he accepted an invite to head over to West Africa to help in the process of disentangling brand new nation states from their colonial pasts...


Which was sure to be a relatively simple task, surely?


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