Don Shiach: Educationist and writer who became a successful dealer in movie memorabilia

Don Shiach was a writer, educationist and cinephile who latterly developed a successful business as a dealer in movie memorabilia. He had started his career as a teacher and was very committed to egalitarian politics, especially in the field of education. From the 1970s onwards, he became a full-time writer of books on both education and the cinema, which was a lifelong passion. Born into a working-class Aberdeen background in 1938, Donald McGregor Shiach was a bright student who quickly shone and won a scholarship to Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. From there he went to Aberdeen University and, after graduating in English in 1959, went straight to London where he lived until the late 1980s when he moved to Brighton. In 2006 he returned to London and settled in Bloomsbury, but throughout he kept in touch with his... [read full story]