"Dear Dr. Walker,
Just to let you know that I graduated with a first class honours and I won the Braudel prize for the best undergraduate history dissertation of 2010. I am really delighted with that result and it now stands me in good stead for an MA at SOAS. Although Brookes is a 'new university' and does modular degrees I managed to get the best possible outcome so it balanced any possible percieved drawbacks of going to such a university. Mark Oster also graduated with a first. The History team at Ruskin were pivotal, certainly in my case, in getting this result. Mark and I were often reminding ourselves of and discussing the important tips and techniques that you had taught us during our year at Ruskin. For this I am really very grateful to you. I also want to thank Dr. Paul Martin for his tutition and Dr. Hilda Kean for generating an atmosphere of serious and purposeful history. Thanks of course also to the principal, Audrey Mullender. I hope to get round to joining the Ruskin fellowship and keep in regular touch with Ruskin college.
With my best wishes and enormous gratitude,
Tom Bruce"
(Ruskin history student-2007/2008)
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