Directly available from Eureka Editions

Ronald Oldham: A Life in Three Acts by Bob Hunter.
First published by Eureka Editions in July 2000. 64 pages,
format: booklet with three photographs.
Euro 12.50 

Containing a short description of the course of Mr.Oldham's life
and further mostly notes with practical teaching taken at meetings
of the group.

The life of Ronald Worsley Oldham, OBE, unfolded into three orderly
stages of service - three ascending levels, some might say, a distinction
that would have been pooh-poohed by the man himself as fanciful.
As an amateur playwright, however, he just might have agreed that his
experiences developed through three distinct acts.

The first period was with the premier military service, the Royal Navy.
He began his career as a naval cadet on 15 September 1903 and retired
as a rear admiral on a battleship on 11 January 1938.

Back in Civvy Street at the outbreak of World War II, Rear Admiral Oldham
continued a life of service, this time to his local community, by applying his
organisational skills to local government.

The third part of his life's work was less obviously one of service,
but only because it was played out in accordance with a discipline beyond
the ken of everyday life. In 1956, after having thought deeply for some time
about the meaning of life, he came in contact with a group of people who followed
what is called the Fourth Way.

For nine years Mr Oldham was able to benefit greatly from Mrs Pogson's teaching,
for when she died on 5 February 1967, he showed that he had learned well
how to lead a group on the Fourth Way.

Beryl Pogson (1895-1967) was a pupil of Dr. Maurice Nicoll for nineteen years and his secretary for fourteen years.
Many of her writings have been published only privately for the benefit of her students and groups. Now for the first time much
of her Teaching has been republished and is now more widely known. She often made connections between The Work and
sacred books, literature, plays and poetry as will be seen in these books.  Her Work teaching was based on
The Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G.I.Gurdjieff and P.D.Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll, and of course,
from G.I.Gurdjieff's and P.D.Ouspensky's own writings.