Reuters

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Malorie Blackman
Before she gave up other work to become a full-time writer in 1990, MB worked in computer programming, databases, and software. She went to work in 1983 as a programmer for Reuters in London; they...
Family and Intimate relationships Enid Bagnold
EB married Sir Roderick Jones , the wealthy proprietor of Reuters news agency.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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Material Conditions of Writing Malorie Blackman
MB 's motivation for writing books with black children as the protagonists goes back to her own childhood, when the dearth of such books made her feel invisible.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
She dreamed of becoming a teacher and...
politics Ann Bridge
AB also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia...
Publishing Freya Stark
FS began work—revising Reuters telegraphic news bulletins into prose, and writing short sketches—for the Baghdad Times. A selection of the latter was published as Baghdad Sketches in the same year.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House, 1999.
132
Stark, Freya, and Reynolds Stone. Beyond Euphrates. J. Murray, 1951.
243
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Residence Penelope Mortimer
Penelope Dimont (later PM ) lived in Nazi-occupied Vienna from March to September 1938 while her husband reported news of the international situation (menaced by what was soon to become the Second World War)...
Wealth and Poverty Enid Bagnold
EB 's husband, Sir Roderick Jones , was forced to resign his directorship of Reuters news agency.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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Timeline

October 1858: John Julius Reuter started providing a telegraph-based...

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October 1858

John Julius Reuter started providing a telegraph-based foreign news service to the LondonMorning Advertiser, beginning with a fortnight's free trial.
Read, Donald. The Power of News: The History of Reuters, 1849-1989. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...

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24 December 1922

The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg 's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC .
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
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