R. M. Lamming, also known as Roberta Lamming or Bobbie Lamming (born 1948Alphabetical Bibliography: R. M. Lamming or 1949Library of Congress Name Authority File) is a British writer. She has also written science fiction short stories under the pseudonym of Robin Douglas.
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George William Lamming was born on 8 June 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, of mixed African and English parentage. After his mother married his stepfather, Lamming split his time between this birthplace and his stepfather's home in St David's Village. Lamming attended Roebuck Boys' School and Combermere School on a scholarship. Encouraged by his teacher, Frank Collymore, Lamming found the world of books and started to write.
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Martindale, Carol, "Lamming wins literary award", NationNews, 12 May 2011. In 2014, he won a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards."George Lamming – 2014 Lifetime Achievement", 80th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. George Lamming Primary School, located at Flint Hall, St Michael, was named in his honour and opened on 2 September 2008.
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Brown University held a two-day series of events celebrating Lamming, 8–9 March 2011.Josephs, Kelly Baker, "Tribute to George Lamming", The Caribbean Commons — Caribbean Studies in the Northeast US, CUNY, 7 March 2011. In May 2011 the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC)Dottin, Bea, "Cuba honours Lamming's work", NationNews, 21 May 2011. awarded Lamming the first Caribbean Hibiscus Award in acknowledgement of his lifetime's work.
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Lamming was born on the Isle of Man, the daughter of two doctors, Olive Lamming and Bob Lamming.Lamming, Robert Love (1910 - 1997), Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Accessed 7 April 2019. She was educated at Rydal PenrhosRydal Penrhos and St Anne's College, Oxford.
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The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti is a novel by R. M. Lamming published in 1983.
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Lamming was subsequently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and became a professional writer. He began to travel widely, going to the United States in 1955, the West Indies in 1956 and West Africa in 1958.Hughes, Michael, "Lamming, George", in A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, p. 69.
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In 1951 Lamming became a broadcaster for the BBC Colonial Service. His writings were published in the Barbadian magazine Bim, edited by his teacher Frank Collymore, and the BBC's Caribbean Voices radio series broadcast his poems and short prose. Lamming himself read poems on Caribbean Voices, including some by the young Derek Walcott.
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First edition (UK) Cover art by Denis Williams In the Castle of My Skin is the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, originally published in 1953 by Michael Joseph in London, and subsequently published in New York City by McGraw-Hill. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright,"George Lamming", East- West Center. the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition.George Lamming interview by Erika J. Waters, The Caribbean Writer, 7 December 1998.
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George Lamming (born 8 June 1927) is a Bajan novelist, essayist and poetLichtenstein, David P., "A Brief Biography of George Lamming", Literature of the Caribbean. and an important figure in Caribbean literature, who first won critical acclaim with his debut novel, In the Castle of My Skin (1953).Brown University, Africana Studies. He has held academic posts including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University,Clarke, Sherrylyn, "Black History Month: George Lamming", NationNews (Barbados), 13 February 2014.
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In September 2012, with development work at the site yet to commence, ecoTECH put the Lamming Mills site up for sale.
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"About Us" , abusSTAR."Barbados: Educators excited as CFS model is expanded", Eastern Caribbean – UNICEF. His work is celebrated through the George Lamming Pedagogical Centre, housed at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI),"The George Lamming Pedagogical Centre", EBCCI, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. with annual distinguished lecture series held annually in June, the month of Lamming's birth.
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The editors- in-chief are Louise Knight and Wendy Tate. Previous editors are Alessandro Ancarani and George A. Zsidisin, Finn Wynstra, Christine Harland, and the founding editor, Richard Lamming.
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"Abdulrazak Gurnah – Advisory Board", People, Wasafiri. Gurnah has supervised research projects on the writing of Rushdie, Naipaul, G. V. Desani, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid.
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King, Bruce, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (2000), p. 62. Lamming's first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, was published in London in 1953. It won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures the like of Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright,"George Lamming", East-West Center. the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition.Waters, Erika J.,George Lamming interview, The Caribbean Writer, 7 December 1998.
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Wathes gained a BSc in zoology from the University of Birmingham in 1974. Her PhD on fertility in dairy cattle was from the University of Nottingham in 1978, under the supervision of Eric Lamming; her thesis was entitled "Progesterone levels and fertility of lactating cows".GE Lamming. "Reproduction during lactation", pp 335–53, in Control of Ovulation, DB Crighton, GR Foxcroft, NB Haynes, eds, (Butterworth-Heinemann; 2013) ( In 1990, she was awarded a DSc by the University of Bristol.
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David Lamming signed for Wakefield Trinity during December 1953, he made his début for Wakefield Trinity during April 1954, and he played his last match for Wakefield Trinity during the 1961–62 season.
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Dave Langford reviewed The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti for White Dwarf #50, and stated that "Lamming writes beautifully, that she gives an object lesson in how to evoke period flavour without fake-archaic speech".
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Sekou can be heard reciting his own poetry on The Salt Reaper – Selected poems from the flats (Audio CD, 2009) with music produced by award-winning digital arts designer Angelo Rombley. Sekou founded House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP) in his dorm room at New York's Stony Brook University in 1982, which has published his books (and others) since that time. He remains active as HNP's projects director since establishing the small press in St. Martin in 1984. At House of Nehesi Publishers he secured the publication of literary luminaries and pioneers such as George Lamming,About the authors: George Lamming.
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By 1945 a small town had developed, occupied by the mill workers and their families, and a post office opened in April of that year which was known as the "Lamming Mills Post Office". The portable mill was replaced by a more permanent structure in 1946, and on 12 June 1946 the Canadian National Railway renamed the station to "Lamming Mills", with the name being adopted by the settlement. By the 1950s the town had a population of approximately 250 people living in 60 homes, with a church, school, community hall and general store also having been established.
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He entered academia in 1967 as a writer-in-residence and lecturer in the Creative Arts Centre and Department of Education at the University of the West Indies, Kingston (1967–68).Moore, Gerald, "George (Eric) Lamming Biography". Since then, he has been a visiting professor in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University, and a lecturer in Denmark, Tanzania, and Australia. In April 2012, he was chair of the judges for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,"Lamming laments Rodney amnesia in Guyana", Stabroek News, 1 May 2012.
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In the book "An English football Internationals Who's Who" written by Douglas Lamming, he describes the Darwen left full-back as: "a powerful strong kicking back and a real workhorse".Quoted at www.darwenfc.com During the mid-1880s, he left Darwen and moved to Blackburn Olympic.
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In the Castle of My Skin has been characterised by Sandra Pouchet Paquet as an "autobiographical novel of childhood and adolescence written against the anonymity and alienation from self and community the author experienced in London at the age of twenty-three.""Lamming, George", Postcolonial Studies @ Emory. Lamming himself has described the context in which the novel was written: > Migration was not a word I would have used to describe what I was doing when > I sailed with other West Indians to England in 1950. We simply thought we > were going to an England that had been painted in our childhood > consciousness as a heritage and a place of welcome.
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Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also from the West Indies George Lamming (born 1927) is best remembered for In the Castle of the Skin (1953). Another important immigrant writer Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) was born in Japan, but his parents immigrated to Britain when he was six.
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Her work has been compared to that of William Faulkner, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid.Randall Kenan, "Margaret Cezair-Thompson", Bomb 69, Fall 1999. Bombsite, The Artist's Voice since 1981. Among the themes in her work is the individual quest for place and identity within the tumult of history.
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The term "West Indies" first began to achieve wide currency in the 1950s, when writers such as Samuel Selvon, John Hearne, Edgar Mittelholzer, V. S. Naipaul, and George Lamming began to be published in the United Kingdom.Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and Its Background. London: Faber, 1970.
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David W. Lamming (first ¼ 1936 – 2010) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1980s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Juniors), and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 617), as a , i.e. number 13, and coached at club level for Wakefield Trinity.
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This was the breeding ground for every uncertainty of > self. (...) The novel was completed within two years of my arrival in > London. I still shared in that innocence that had socialised us into seeing > our relations to empire as a commonwealth of mutual interests....George > Lamming, "Sea of stories", The Guardian, 24 October 2002.
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Lamming Mills is a railway point and former unincorporated community located on the Canadian National Railway line just northwest of McBride, British Columbia in the Cariboo Land District. It stands near a bend of the upper Fraser River and is connected by road to the Highway 16 section of the Yellowhead Highway. It was one of the oldest settlements in the Robson Valley. The site was originally established circa 1915 as the Mile 5.4 Cariboo Siding of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was relocated two miles northwest around 1920 to service a pole yard, and renamed "Craibenn Station" after railway section foreman D.A. Craig and yard owner J. Bennett. In 1943, brothers and sawmill owners Oscar and Ernie Lamming came to the McBride area and established a portable sawmill at the siding.
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Journals - Out of Print, Savacou Publications. Retrieved 7 April 2012. Its advisory committee included John La Rose, Lloyd King, Gordon Rohlehr, Orlando Patterson, Sylvia Wynter, Paule Marshall and Wilfred Cartey, and among its early contributors were C. L. R. James, Michael Anthony, Derek Walcott, George Lamming, Martin Carter and John Figueroa.Jenny Stringer (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, 1996.
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Ventus soon found a viable option and contacted Connor "KING" Lamming, then captain of the Counter-Strike team Boondocks. Interest was shown, but soon after ulterior plans arose again as Connor left Boondocks to form a new team for Ventus. Connor had Dean "Hackem" Seyfried, Marchant "StripflOw" Laauwen, Jandrey "JiN" Venter and Marco "Lost" Fourie join with him and they formed Ventus.
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Actress Pauline Henriques and writer Samuel Selvon reading a story on BBC's Caribbean Voices 1952 The term "West Indies" first began to achieve wide currency in the 1950s, when writers such as Samuel Selvon, John Edgar Colwell Hearne, Edgar Mittelholzer, V.S. Naipaul, and George Lamming began to be published in the United Kingdom.Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and Its Background.
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Ethel Tarshish was married to actor David de Keyser for ten years (from 1949 to 1959), and had a longterm relationship with writer George Lamming. Ethel de Keyser died in 2004, after a heart attack. The trustees of the Canon Collins Educational Trust established scholarships in her name as a memorial."The Ethel de Keyser Scholarships Fund" Canon Collins Educational Trust.
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"Roopnaraine wins Bocas non-fiction literary prize", Guyana Times, 30 April 2013. The judges commentated that "in the corpus of non-fiction prose in the Caribbean intellectual tradition, only José Martí and George Lamming rival the range of Roopnaraine’s capacities of response, depth of analysis and subtle and mordant style.""Rupert Roopnaraine wins major literary award", Kaieteur News, 30 April 2013.
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The first issue of BIM appeared in December 1942,"Bim - Kyk-Over- Al, Bim, Savacou", jrank.org. after which it continued regular publication (originally four times a year) until 1996. Many of the Caribbean writers who later received international recognition in the 1950s and '60s published work in BIM in its early years. Notable contributors included Michael Anthony, Ian McDonald, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming.
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Mark Lamming is a moderately successful biographer. He lives in the suburbs of London with his wife, Diana. His modesty and reclusiveness make him seem a person people can trust in. As he is very well-educated, literate and intellectual, he feels slightly uncomfortable and even superior when faced with people like Carrie; people who have read hardly any books and who are not schooled with literature.
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He proved a success at St James' Park, winning an FA Cup medal with the club in 1932.Lamming, Who's Who, p. 103 He also played three times for the England national team in 1932 and 1933 whilst at the club. He moved to Chelsea in 1936 for £4166 and was at the club to 1945 although his career was interrupted by the Second World War.
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While working on her first manuscript Guanahani, My Love, Bethel attended the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute at the University of Miami in 1991, where she worked with two well known Barbadian writers, George Lamming and Kamau Braithwaite.Nixon, Arthia. "Bahamas Consulate & Marion Bethel Enlighten Atlanta on Women’s Suffrage Movement at Spelman College and Allen Institute", Bahamas Press (28 October 2013). Bahama Press, 20 October 2013.
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Weaver began his career at local side Pilsley from where he moved to Sutton Town. His performances for Town attracted the attention of Hull City and in March 1928 he moved to the Tigers for £50.Douglas Lamming, A Who's Who of Hull City AFC, Hutton Press, 1984, p. 102 In November 1929 he left Anlaby Road for Newcastle United, netting City a huge profit by moving for £2500.
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Notable interviewees featured in the journal include: Stuart Hall (Small Axe 1, 1997), Richard Hart (Small Axe 3, 1998), Ken Post (Small Axe 4, 1998), Robert A. Hill (Small Axe 5, 1999), Sylvia Wynter (Small Axe 8, 2000), George Lamming (Small Axe 9, 2002), Sidney Mintz (Small Axe 19, 2006), Rex Nettleford (Small Axe 20, 2006), Patrick Chamoiseau (Small Axe 30, 2009), Merle Collins (Small Axe 31, 2010), and Orlando Patterson (Small Axe 40, 2013).
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An autobiographical coming-of-age novel, set in the 1930s–'40s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised,Thaichi, "Memoirs: In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming". Bookish Relish, 19 July 2012. In the Castle of My Skin follows the events in the life of a young boy named G, taking place against the background of dramatic changes in the society in which he lives."In the Castle of My Skin" at Encyclopedia.com.
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Patricia McKenna, Dounne Alexander, Keith Vaz, Peter Bone,EU Referendum Motion Will Not Mean an Immediate Referendum, ConservativeHome, 22 October 2011. John Cryer, Graham Stringer, Nich Brown,Motorcycle Action Group to address People's Pledge Congress , The Motorcycle Action Group, 21 October 2011. Priti Patel, Mark Reckless, Dominic Raab, Mike Weatherley, Tim Montgomerie, Marta Andreasen,People's Pledge - A salute to the organizers , Marta Andreasen, 24 October 2011. John Stevens, Richard Lamming,People's Pledge Congress Program , The People's Pledge, 22 October 2011.
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He developed an approach based on Critical Parameters for designing interactive systems that deliver tangible performance improvements to the user. In 1995 he published the textbook Interactive System Design with Mik Lamming incorporating those ideas. In the late '80s and early '90s, William was especially prolific in program design, patenting a range of products from paperless offices to on- the-fly language translation. After leaving Xerox, Newman worked as a consultant, advising a number of organisations on interactive systems design.
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Mark Lamming, a biographer, leads a quiet life in London with his wife Diana, who works at a gallery. In order to gain information about the dead writer and essayist Gilbert Strong who he is going to write a book about, Mark visits Strong's granddaughter, Carrie. She runs a garden centre at Dean Close, a mansion Strong used to live in. Mark regularly stays at Dean Close for several days, and in the course of this falls in love with Carrie.
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He was followed by writers including Barbadians George Lamming and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Trinidadians Samuel Selvon and C. L. R. James, Jamaican Andrew Salkey and the Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. These writers viewed London as the centre of the English literary scene, and took advantage of the BBC Radio show Caribbean Voices to gain attention and be published. By relocating to Britain, these writers also gave Caribbean literature an international readership for the first time and established Caribbean writing as an important perspective within English literature.Black British Literature since Windrush by Onyekachi Wambu, BBC online.
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More than two hundred authors appeared on Caribbean Voices, including V. S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and Derek Walcott. Through this show, Marson met people such as J. E. Clare McFarlane, Vic Reid, Andrew Salkey, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Marcus Garvey, Amy Garvey, Nancy Cunard, Sylvia Pankhurst, Winifred Holtby, Paul Robeson, John Masefield, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, Tambimuttu and George Orwell.De Caires, Brendan, "Windrush moderns", Archive, Caribbean Review of Books, November 2015. The latter helped Marson edit the programme before she turned it into Caribbean Voices.
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Thomas William Spink, born in Dipton, County Durham, was a professional footballer who primarily played for Grimsby Town AFC. His favoured position was outside right (right winger). In a "A Who's Who of Grimsby Town AFC 1890-1985" by Douglas Lamming, the book had the following to say: "Tommy was reckoned to be one of Grimsby's best ever right-wingers because of his speed, pinpoint centering and consistency." During the First World War he made one appearance as a 'War Guest' for Hartlepool United in the World War I League.
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From 1973, the Field Trials expanded to more than one day. In 1975 the current permanent site at Paskeville was established, after were purchased from Keith Lamming (35 acres for $8000) and Stan Norris (32 acres for $7040) for a total of $15,040 in 1977. The first field days event held at the Paskeville site in 1977 was opened by Sir Thomas Playford, former South Australian Premier. Permanent roads, and some permanent pavilions and sheds, have been built at the site, with the roads being named after the current and past bureaus of the Yorke Peninsula Field Days corporation.
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In the Castle of My Skin has been widely praised and analysed since its first publication, receiving more critical attention than any of Lamming's other works."George Lamming: Critical reception", in Daryl Cumber Dance (ed.), Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, pp. 270–275. Introducing the American edition, Richard Wright referred to "Lamming's quietly melodious prose",Richard Wright, Introduction to In the Castle of My Skin, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953, pp. v–viii. while Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o saw the book as "a study of colonial revolt" and "one of the great political novels in modern 'colonial' literature".
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Retrieved 24 November 2006. Some Caribbean writers also began writing about the hardships faced by settlers in post-war Britain. Lamming addressed these issues in his 1954 novel The Emigrants, which traced the journey of migrants from Barbados as they struggled to integrate into British life. Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (1956) details the life of West Indians in post-World War II London. Writing much later, Ferdinand Dennis both in his journalism and novels, such as The Sleepless Summer (1989) and The Last Blues Dance (1996), deals with "an older generation of Caribbean immigrants, whose narratives, stoical and unpolemical, rarely find expression".
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The committee held multiple conferences that featured influential activists from around the globe such as George Lamming and C.L.R James. The committee discussed and formulated political and social change in the Caribbean, which consequently inspired ideas of change in the local setting of Montreal. The Caribbean Conference Committee separated in 1967 when some members dispersed, however the name of the organisation was changed to the Canadian Conference Committee (CCC) which represented a shift in Caribbean focus to Canada as their home. Caribbean students became less concerned with Caribbean decolonization and more interested in domestic racial issues.
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Also from the West Indies is George Lamming (born 1927), who wrote In the Castle of My Skin (1953), while from Pakistan, came Hanif Kureshi (born 1954), a playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. His book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel, and was also made into a BBC television series. Another important immigrant writer Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954) was born in Japan, but his parents immigrated to Britain when he was six. His works include The Remains of the Day 1989, Never Let Me Go 2005.
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The Edward Street mosaic. The White Horse was referenced in the books The Tontine (1955) by Thomas B. Costain, The Emigrants (1980) by Caribbean author George Lamming, and in the novel The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje, as the place where the sapper Kip learned how to deactivate bombs. Michael Morpurgo mentioned it as one of the inspirations for The Butterfly Lion. The figure can be seen in the music video for Scottish guitarist Midge Ure's 1996 single "Breathe", and is featured in the current opening titles of the regional television news programme ITV News West Country.
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Schwarz has written and edited books on postcolonialism, British cultural and political history, and on 20th-century Caribbean and North American writers including George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, and James Baldwin. Schwarz's 2011 work Memories of Empire: The White Man’s World, a study of colonial society towards the end of the British Empire, and the first of a three-volume history, was named Book of the Year at the Longman/History Today Awards in 2013."Bill Schwarz", The Heyman Centre."Queen Mary’s Bill Schwarz wins Book of the Year at Longman/History Today Awards" , Queen Mary University of London, 11 January 2013.
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"Bocas Lit Fest a hit in London", Trinidad Express Newspapers, 24 June 2011. The scores of writers taking part in the 2012 festival, both locally based and from abroad,Julien Neaves, "Literary meals at Bocas Lit Fest", Trinidad Express Newspapers, 26 April 2012. included Fred D'Aguiar, Earl Lovelace, Vahni Capildeo, Chika Unigwe, Monique Roffey, Kenneth Ramchand, Mervyn Morris, Achy Obejas, Rabindranath Maharaj, George Lamming, professor of genetics Steve Jones, Merle Hodge, Rahul Bhattacharya, and Michael Anthony. The festival featured readings, discussions, performances, workshops, screenings of films based on Caribbean writing and music.Cherisse Moe, "Bocas Lit Fest to showcase creative talent", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 26 April 2012.
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The long-term focus of Wathes' research has been reproduction in domestic ruminants, including cattle and sheep. Fertility in dairy cattle, and the problem of infertility, have formed an important part of her work from the outset. In her early research in Nottingham, with Lamming and others, she developed a method to diagnose and monitor low fertility in cows by measuring levels of the progesterone hormone in their milk. Her subsequent research at the Royal Veterinary College has investigated what causes cows to have low fertility, including their genetic background, nutrition and metabolic status, as well as bacterial infection of the uterus after calving.
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This meant, a complete season from our first team but, on his return in 1958, he was soon in action again, and made 21 appearances. Around this time, however, Trinity's pack was being strengthened with experienced internationals. For Lamming it meant that a new challenge had to begin; and he was young enough and keen enough to accept this in the right spirit. He has come back to be a regular contender for a pack berth and, at the same time, his talents at loose-forward have been valuable when called in to deputise for Derek Turner when Trinity's captain has had international calls.
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Buchi Emecheta, Chester Himes, George Lamming, Roy Heath, Ishmael Reed, John Edgar Wideman, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa Guy, Val Wilmer, Colin MacInnes, H. Rap Brown, Julius Lester, Geoffrey Grigson, Dermot Healy, Adrian Mitchell, Jill Murphy, Christine Qunta, Michael Horovitz, Carlos Moore, Michèle Roberts, Molefe Pheto, Arthur Maimane, Giles Gordon, Clive Sinclair, Chris Searle, Richard Stark, James Ellroy, Hunter S. Thompson, B. Traven, Alexis Lykiard, Jack Trevor Story, Michael Moorcock, John Clute, Julian Savarin, Ralph de Boissière, Andrew Salkey, Harriet E. Wilson, and Miyamoto Musashi. Busby was subsequently Editorial Director of Earthscan (publishing titles by Han Suyin, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, René Dumont, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and others), before pursuing a freelance career as an editor, writer, and critic.
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Lamming wrote (in an introduction to the issue of June 1955): "There are not many West Indian writers today who did not use Bim as a kind of platform, the surest, if not the only avenue, by which they might reach a literate and sensitive reading public, and almost all of the West Indians who are now writers in a more professional sense and whose work has compelled the attention of readers and writers in other countries, were introduced, so to speak, by Bim."Albert James Arnold, Julio Rodríguez- Luis, J. Michael Dash, Language Arts & Disciplines, 1994. After a decade of silence, BIM was relaunched in 2007.Kim Ramsay-Moore, "BIM Magazine Relaunched", BGIS Media, website of the Barbados Government Information Service, 9 September 2009.
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Prince George Citizen, 6 Feb 1947 Throughout the 1950s, Lamming Bros. had logging and milling operations in the area.Prince George Citizen: 2 & 16 Nov 1950, 5 Apr 1951, 9 Feb 1953 & 10 Jan 1957 In the late 1950s, a school bus ran from the Nance Lumber Co.'s new mill.Prince George Citizen: 26 Aug 1958 & 23 Sep 1958 Around to the west, the operation comprised bunkhouses and a cookhouse. The company had operated in McBride since the early 1950s.Prince George Citizen: 14 Feb 1952; 29 Oct 1953 to 31 Dec 1953; & 21 to 30 May 1957 Based in Red Deer, Alberta, it possessed holdings in McBride and Dome Creek at the time owner William Theodore Nance (c.1908–65) died.
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In 1965, Roberts teamed up with Robert Hill, Hugh O'Neale, Alvin Johnson, Franklyn Harvey, Anne Cools, and Rosie Douglas, among others, to organise the first of a series of conferences and events that would bring a host of distinguished Caribbean thinkers and writers to Montreal, including novelist George Lamming and C. L. R. James, one of the great thinkers of the last century. These events nourished a number of important political movements across the Caribbean. Out of this Montreal-based group, the Conference Committee on West Indian Affairs, evolved several other groups based in Montreal, including the International Caribbean Service Bureau and the Emancipation 150 Committee. These groups played a major role in highlighting social and political issues facing communities of African and Caribbean descent locally and internationally.
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Newman went on to manage a research team at the Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK. With Margery Eldridge and Mik Lamming he pursued a research project in Activity-Based Information Retrieval’ (AIR). The basic hypothesis of the project was that if contextual data about human activities can be automatically captured and later presented as recognisable descriptions of past episodes, then human memory of those past episodes can be improved. With his wife Karmen Guevara, he founded a company in 1986, Beta Chi Design, which was instrumental in introducing human-computer interaction and user-centred design practice to the UK, through workshops held across the UK, drawing on expertise gained while working with Xerox PARC. Newman subsequently undertook research in human–computer interaction with the aim of identifying measurable parameters that characterise the quality of interaction.
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The manner in which the colonial powers introduced the Chinese into the West Indies and the socioeconomic roles that they afforded to the migrants would directly affect how the Chinese were imagined and represented in colonial discourse in terms of where they belonged in the West Indies' social, economic and political landscapes. The Chinese in literature, particularly, were regarded as either valuable additions to the multicultural mosaic of the Caribbean, or an entry into the problematic multiculturalism that existed in the region. George Lamming, for example, in his work Of Age and Innocence and Wilson Harris in The Whole Armour explored the Chinese character through the lens of the former. More often than not, the Chinese are presented as peripheral figures in stereotypical roles, as inscrutable or clever or linguistically deficient rural shopkeepers, preoccupied with money and profit.
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Swanzy is acknowledged to have "transformed Caribbean Voices into the primary site for new and unpublished poetry and prose from the Caribbean, granting an international forum to many who would go on to become the leading lights in Caribbean letters".Letizia Gramaglia and Malachi McIntosh, "Censorship, Selvon and Caribbean Voices", Wasafiri, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2013, p. 49. Writers who received their start on Caribbean Voices or were nurtured as contributors by the programme during Swanzy's tenure include George Lamming,Waters (2010), "Interview With John J. M. Figueroa", The Caribbean Writer. Edgar Mittelholzer, Shake Keane, Sam Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Ian McDonald, Gloria Escoffery, John Figueroa,Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999. Alfred MendesJohn C. Ball, Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis, University of Toronto Press, 2004, p. 103.
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As in most French métro and tramway systems, trains drive on the right (SNCF trains run on the left track). The tracks are standard gauge (1.435 metres). Electric power is supplied by a third rail which carries 750 volts DC. The width of the carriages, 2.4 metres, is narrower than that of newer French systems (such as the 2.9 m carriages in Lyon, one of the widest in Europe)Clive Lamming, Métro insolite and trains on Lines 1, 4 and 14 have capacities of 600-700 passengers; this is as compared with 2,600 on the Altéo MI 2N trains of RER A. The City of Paris deliberately chose the narrow size of the Metro tunnels to prevent the running of main-line trains; the city of Paris and the French state had historically poor relations.Bobrick, Benson.
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Lamming is the author of six novels: In the Castle of My Skin (1953), The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), Season of Adventure (1960), Water with Berries (1971) and Natives of My Person (1972). His much acclaimed first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, featuring an autobiographical character named G., can be read as both a coming-of-age story as well as the story of the Caribbean.Anderson, Teresa, "In the Castle of My Skin", Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues, Western Michigan University. His 1960 collection of essays, The Pleasures of Exile, is a pioneering work that attempts to define the place of the West Indian in the post-colonial world, re-interpreting Shakespeare's The Tempest and the characters of Prospero and Caliban in terms of personal identity and the history of the Caribbean.
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The first congress was the Conference of Black Writers in Paris and the second was a black writers forum in Rome. Attendees of the forums included writers of African and Afro- descendant heritage such as Alioune Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop, Léopold Senghor, and Jacques Rabemananjara, Richard Wright, Césaire, George Lamming, Horace Mann Bond, Jacques Alexis, John Davis, William Fontaine, Jean Price Mars, James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Mercer Cook and Frantz Fanon. Members of both forums were engaged with discussing ideas about the resurgence of African culture and the convocation of a festival of arts. In 1966, with leadership provided by Leopold Senghor and subsidies from outside, notably France, and UNESCO, the First World Festival of Black Arts was held in Dakar, Senegal, 1–24 April 1966."1st World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, April 1-24, 1966: Colloquium: Function and Significance of African Negro Art in the Life of the People and for the People, March 30-April 8, 1966", UNESDOC.
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Peepal Tree Press is recognised also for Inscribe and Young Inscribe, a writer development project which supports emerging writers of African and Asian descent in the UK, which has included writers such as Adam Lowe, Degna Stone, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Seni Seneviratne and Rommi Smith, who has been Writer-in-Residence for the Houses of Parliament, the BBC during the Commonwealth Games, BBC Music Live, the British Council at California State University in Los Angeles, and Keats House. Peepal Tree Press is a founding core partner in the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction written by Black and Asian women resident in the UK.Our Partners: Peepal Tree Press, SI Leeds Literary Prize."SI Leeds Literary Prize", Soroptimist International Great Britain & Ireland. The focus of Peepal Tree Press is "on what George Lamming calls the Caribbean nation, wherever it is in the world","Branching Out: Peepal Tree Press", Spike Magazine, 7 April 2011.
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The aim was to facilitate European integration by fostering a Pan-European identity among the populations of the EC member states. The European Council adopted "Europe Day" along with the flag of Europe and other items on 29 June 1985 in Milan.Nicole Scicluna, European Union Constitutionalism in Crisis, Routledge (2014), p. 55. A Europe Day parade in Warsaw Following the foundation of the European Union in 1993, observance of Europe Day by national and regional authorities increased significantly. Germany in particular has gone beyond celebrating just the day, since 1995 extending the observance to an entire "Europe Week" (') centered on 9 May. In Poland, the , a Polish organisation advocating European integration established in 1991, first organised its Warsaw ' on Europe Day 1999, at the time advocating the accession of Poland to the EU. Observance of 9 May as "Europe Day" was reported "across Europe" as of 2008.Lamming, R. (9 May 2008) Europe Day, but not in Britain , Federal Union In 2019, 9 May became an official public holiday in Luxembourg each year, to mark Europe Day.
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Michael Bucknor and Conrad James described Ladoo's work as being, along with the works of Andrew Salkey, "especially useful" for tracking developments in Caribbean social attitudes towards masculinity and issues of male sexuality during the mid- to late-20th century, a domain which has been neglected by Western scholars until recently. An essay on Indo-Caribbean authors contrasted Ladoo's work with that of Sasenarine Persaud, neither of whom ever had direct experiences with India; Persaud integrated spiritual and aesthetic elements of Indian high culture into his writing, while Ladoo's writing of his colonial environment featured "naturalistic detail, black humour, and the grotesque". Scholar Victor Ramraj described Ladoo as being unique from fellow Indo-Caribbean writers Neil Bissoondath, Rabindranath Maharaj, Ismith Khan, V.S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon: Ladoo's use of Creole dialect is a departure from older Carbibbean fiction. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and others, used the polished language of the coloniser and showed in doing so that they were equal to the British writers who made a name for themselves.
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Vera Bell or Vera Alberta or Albertha "BELL, Vera Albertha, Journalist & Author: Chief Clerk, Engineering Dept. ... Publications: Several short stories, poems & plays, including the Pantomime "Soliday and the Wicked Bird", 1943;" is visible in Google search results for "vera bell religious poems" but not accessible in the "snippet view" displayed in Google Books Bell (born 1906; date of death unknown) was a Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright. Her 1948 poem "Ancestor on the Auction Block" has been anthologized several times Note: Includes full text of poem although a 2005 review of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse says "some of the earlier poems survive only as amusing museum pieces, such as Vera Bell's "Ancestor on the Auction Block"". The poem is described by Laurence A. Breiner in his An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (1998) as "a poem whose crux is the poet's troubled relation to the poet's ancestral subject/object", and Breiner cites George Lamming as placing the poem "squarely at a liminal moment in the process of establishing contact with a previously objectified or fetishized Other".
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Launching as a publishing company in May 1967,Saipan Elegy and Other Poems by James Grady; A Stained Glass Raree Show by Libby Houston; Selected Poems by James Reeves — Allison & Busby, May 1967. A & B in its first two decades published writers including Sam Greenlee, Michael Moorcock, H. Rap Brown, Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa Guy, Roy Heath, Chester Himes, Adrian Henri, Michael Horovitz, C. L. R. James, George Lamming, Geoffrey Grigson, Jill Murphy, Andrew Salkey, Ishmael Reed, Julius Lester, Alexis Lykiard, Colin MacInnes, Arthur Maimane, Adrian Mitchell, Ralph de Boissière, Gordon Williams, Alan Burns, John Clute, James Ellroy, Giles Gordon, Clive Sinclair, Jack Trevor Story, John Edgar Wideman, Val Wilmer, Margaret Thomson Davis, Dermot Healy, Richard Stark, B. Traven, Simon Leys, and others.Allison & Busby list of books, archINFORM. Among the imprint's original titles are The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), Behold the Man (1969), The Final Programme (1969), The English Assassin (1972), The Worst Witch (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976), The Condition of Muzak (1977), Gloriana (1978), The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1979), and The True History of the Elephant Man (1980).
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Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay and Asha Rogers, "(G)localisation, Examining and Textbooks in the Anglophone Caribbean", in The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p. 110.Anthony Boxill and Edward Baugh, "Anthologies (Caribbean)", in Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly, Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Second edition), Routledge, 2005, pp. 47–48. Caribbean writers published at Longman's on Walmsley's watch include Roy Heath (whose first novel, A Man Come Home, she took on in 1974),Margaret Busby, "Roy AK Heath" (obituary), The Guardian, 20 May 2008. George Lamming, Samuel Selvon and Ismith Khan.Charlotte Williams and Evelyn A. Williams, Denis Williams, a Life in Works: New and Collected Essays, Rodopi, 2010, p. 107. During this time Walmsley participated in the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), founded in 1966 by Kamau Brathwaite (then L. Edward Brathwaite), John La Rose and Andrew Salkey. After 10 years as Longman's Caribbean publisher, she spent two years in Nairobi as Publishing Manager for Longman Kenya,Anne Walmsley, "Longman Caribbean: Kenya", pp. 87–94, in Tim Rix (ed.), Longmans More Latter-day Memories, Personal and Various, printed for private circulation, 2012.
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