British Council

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Travel Catherine Byron
CB gave readings and workshops for the British Council in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, about her experiences writing poetry for the web.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Rebecca Blasco.
Travel Rebecca West
The first visit was a lecture tour arranged by the British Council .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
148
West returned with her husband in late March of the following year for a two-month tour of what are now Croatia...
Travel Wendy Cope
WC travelled to Amman in Jordan to give readings under the auspices of the British Council .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Travel Helen Dunmore
HD visited Berlin on a poetry-reading tour by Bloodaxe Books authors, sponsored by the British Council .
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
Travel Jackie Kay
JK has done a good deal of professional travelling. In September 2003 she went to Nigeria (Abuja, Kano, and Lagos) to read her poetry on a tour for the British Council
Travel Elaine Feinstein
Her travels include trips undertaken for the British Council , to Singapore to be writer in residence (1993) and to Tromsø in Norway.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Travel Alison Fell
She has also held an academic appointment in Sydney, Australia, and travelled for research purposes to Chamonix in the French Alps, to the Pyrenees, and to opera performances in Germany. In...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Olivia Manning
The first trilogy draws on OM 's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...
Textual Production Maggie Gee
MG thanks many individuals and institutions (including the British Council ) for enabling her to amass considerable first-hand experience of Uganda in order to write this book. She contributed an article, A different view...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC wrote for the British Council a little book on George Eliot as one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News, also known as the Writers and Their Work series.
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 673
Textual Production Germaine Greer
GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
She followed it with a brief study of Coleridge done for the British Council in 1953 (one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News), and with a critical Introduction to his selected Poems...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
The British Council issued at London and New York, 1961, a slim volume of EJ 's work, Poetry To-day, 1957-60, in its Bibliographical Series of Supplements to British Book News on Writers and their Work.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Kathleen Raine
The book was published for the British Council and the National Book League . There were later a number of revised editions.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 288
Textual Production Margaret Drabble
She had met Wilson, a fellow-novelist, on a British Council visit to Wales, and had come to know him as well as to admire his writing.
Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7.
7

Timeline

1934: The British Council was founded to promote...

Building item

1934

The British Council was founded to promote education abroad about Britain and British art.

August 2007: The British Council, promoter of British...

National or international item

August 2007

The British Council , promoter of British culture in other countries, cut by forty million US dollars the cost of its activity in Europe, in order to expand its activities in the Middle East and...

Texts

British Book News. British Council.