British Council

She began at the Royal College by lecturing one day a week for £515 a year. She also lectured abroad for the British Council , and taught philosophy part-time at University College, London.

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

The Muirs' stay in Italy ended abruptly and sooner than they would have liked when the British government withdrew its funding to the British Council for European branches of the British Institute .

In the 1950s, UM struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf , but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...

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...

She is a reader for the Literary Consultancy and a mentor with Crossing Borders, an on-line project run by the British Council to support African writers. She also teaches for the MA in Creative...

AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 . Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...

The British Council website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the...

On invitation from the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what...

Working again through the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis lectured on Austen , Eliot , and Yeats in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna.

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

In late 1951 she wrote a booklet for the British CouncilWriters and their Work series on Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was only just beginning to attract attention among those interested in the craft of...

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.

The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987. Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...