Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins, 1965.
prelims
BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Deborah Moggach | DM
has published two volumes of short stories: Smile and Other Stories, 1987, and Changing Babies and Other Stories, 1995, which contains fifteen stories. Her short fiction has been anthologised in Back Rubs... |
| Anthologization | Bryony Lavery | |
| Characters | E. M. Delafield | EMD
defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at... |
| Cultural formation | Cecily Mackworth | English with some past admixture of French on her mother's side, Welsh on her father's, she grew up with a strong cosmopolitan or internationalist streak, as well as a tendency to eccentricity or disregard of... |
| Cultural formation | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from... |
| Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes
and dedicated to Josephine Plummer
, who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC
radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51. Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961. 28 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994. 107 |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
| Employer | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
| Employer | Antonia White | AW
worked for the BBC
. At the end of this time she was sacked on grounds of her visible disgust with its routine of death & stagnation. qtd. in Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 275 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 250, 275 Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes. |
| Employer | Monica Furlong | She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex
). She was taken on as secretary to a... |
| Employer | Frances Horovitz | At the BBC
and Open UniversityFH
established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker
, she read for the BBC's Third Programme
(which, with a few shifts... |
| Employer | Rose Macaulay | RM
had a long-running career as a journalist: until part-way through the Second World War she combined a large output of novels with working as a critic and reviewer. She worked for Time and Tide... |
| Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
| Employer | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories, 2018. |
| Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
Timeline
21 November 1748: John Cleland published the first volume of...
Writing climate item
21 November 1748
John Cleland
published the first volume of his soft-porn novel Fanny Hill.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...
National or international item
14 November 1922
Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company
(later the British Broadcasting Corporation
).
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
37, 364
14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...
National or international item
14 November 1922
Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company
(later the British Broadcasting Corporation
).
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
37, 364
5 December 1922: Children's Hour was first broadcast on the...
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5 December 1922
Children's Hour was first broadcast on the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
41, 364
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.
119
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
364
Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
27
13 February 1923: The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff,...
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13 February 1923
The BBC
opened a radio station at Cardiff, Wales; it made its first broadcast in Welsh on 8 November.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
364-5
2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...
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2 May 1923
Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield
and the Women's Advisory Committee
, the BBC
's radio programme Women's Hour began its two-year run.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
11 July 1923: With a radio programme about film, the BBC...
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11 July 1923
With a radio programme about film, the BBC
began its first broadcasts of arts criticism.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
120
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
28 September 1923: The BBC released the first issue of the Radio...
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28 September 1923
The BBC
released the first issue of the Radio Times, a weekly publication providing information and programme listings.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
120
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Hobsbawm, Eric John. “C (for Crisis)”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 15, 6 Aug. 2009, pp. 12-13. 12
31 December 1923: The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast...
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31 December 1923
The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast on the BBC
to usher in the New Year.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
31 January 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast story,...
Writing climate item
31 January 1924
The BBC
presented the first broadcast story, by A. J. Alan
(pseudonym of Leslie H. Lambert
).
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
5 February 1924: The BBC began broadcasting the Greenwich...
National or international item
5 February 1924
The BBC
began broadcasting the Greenwich time signal.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
6 March 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry...
Writing climate item
6 March 1924
The BBC
presented the first broadcast poetry reading, by the poet John Drinkwater
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
4 April 1924: The BBC began its national radio broadcasts...
National or international item
4 April 1924
The BBC
began its national radio broadcasts to schools, with an item by Sir Walford Davies
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
23 April 1924: The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley...
Building item
23 April 1924
The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley with a speech by King George V
—his first broadcast speech on the BBC
.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “The Crystal Palace”. London Review of Books, 25 Nov. 1999, pp. 19-20.
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Westcott, Kathryn. “The Day the World Lit Up”. BBC News, BBC.
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