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Interview: Karen Stevens on characterisation, class and ‘Brilliant Blue'
No full textJoe Bedford interview series 'Writers on Research'. Author Karen Stevens discusses the research process behind her short story collection Brilliant Blue (Barbican Press, 2025)
John Stevens Wade Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter presenting the book Gallery for the Maine Author Collection and a lengthy typed biographical sketch of the author C.J. Stevens, contributed as John Stevens Wade, his pseudonym
Recovery through contradiction?
No full textWith this new drug strategy, the circle has turned. It was a Conservative government
that introduced the first drug strategy, Tackling Drugs Together, in 1995. This aimed
to reduce drug related crime, protect young people and reduce health harms by
discouraging drug use. It was criticised at the time for having unrealistic, intangible
aims and for not providing the necessary funding. New Labour’s strategies introduced
increasingly specific targets and massively expanded the funding of treatment. This
new Coalition strategy has no targets and provides no new funding
Gwendolyne Stevens
No full text"Gwendolyne Daphne was born on 7 June 1908 at Quorn, South Australia, daughter of Hugo Albert Valentine Healey, painter and later publican, and his wife Jessie Gwendolyne, n?e Napier, both South Australian born.
Gwendolyne attended several rural schools, including Innamincka Public, before proceeding to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide. Miss Healey trained at Burra public and (Royal) Adelaide hospitals, and was registered as a nurse on 11 July 1929. She then moved to Parkside Mental Hospital where she gained a certificate in psychiatric nursing in 1931 and became sister-in-charge. In 1934 she bought a large house at Payneham that had been built by James Marshall, converted it into a private psychiatric hospital and named it St Margarets. As its owner and matron for eighteen years, she cared for patients suffering the early stages of nervous disorders, and provided them with a secure and restful setting, with aviaries amid beautiful gardens. That she took on such a task during the depression, and succeeded in it, testified to her business acumen, organizing ability and compassion for those in need.
At the chapel of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, on 12 April 1940, she married George Dempster Stevens, a clerk employed by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. They were to have two daughters.
Pursuing her interest in community health, Mrs Stevens was founding president (1944-50) and a committee-member (until 1961) of the Payneham branch of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.
After she sold her hospital in 1952, she set up Sterling Downs, a Poll Dorset stud on 2200 acres (890 ha) at Currency Creek, in 1957. She employed a manager to supervise the stud and visited it each week. In the 1960s she sold part of the land and moved the stud to Sterling Park, McLaren Vale. The stud was later sold and its sheep replaced with cattle.
Having noticed particular outcrops of rock at Sterling Park, Stevens arranged for drilling to be conducted, as a result of which she opened a quarry and sold building sands to the local council.
In 1968 she became interested in the mining potential of the Northern Territory. She studied maps, obtained advice from geologists and concentrated on an area near Oenpelli, Arnhem Land. She received permission to prospect on 1282 sq. miles (3320 km?) of Aboriginal reserve and negotiated an exploration programme with Queensland Mines Ltd.
In 1970 that company discovered what was then described as the richest body of uranium ore in the world, at a site known to local Aborigines as Nabarlek.
Newspapers referred to Stevens as 'probably the first woman in the world with a right to mine uranium'. She visited the area twice during the early stages of exploration and was staggered by the size of the find.
In August 1971, however, Queensland Mines downgraded the ore reserves to about one-sixth of those announced a year earlier. Intending to use some of the proceeds of her investment to benefit the health of the Aborigines, she transferred the exploration licences to Queensland Mines in May 1973 and negotiated a royalty agreement. Mining at Nabarlek began in 1979.
Mrs Stevens both created and took advantage of opportunities in the areas of mental health, sheep-breeding and mining. Suffering from hypertension, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 3 March 1974 in her Kensington Park home and was cremated. She was survived by her husband and their daughters. Her estate was sworn for probate at $416,266." [author Tony Bott].NurseSheep BreederMining EntrepreneurHospital Proprieto
Scene from Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp" performed at Cain Park Amphitheater, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1945 [01]
No full textColor slide photograph of a scene from Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp," performed at Cain Park Amphitheater, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1945
Theatrical set for Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp" performed at Cain Park Amphitheater, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1945
No full textColor slide photograph of a theatrical set for Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp," performed at Cain Park Amphitheater in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1945
Scene from Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp" performed at Cain Park Amphitheater, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1945 [02]
No full textBlack and white photograph showing a scene from Thomas Wood Stevens\u27 "Camille in Roaring Camp," performed at Cain Park Amphitheater, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1945
Jane Perham Stevens Correspondence
No full textEntries are two, practically indistinguishable copies of a letter written by Thayer of the Maine State Library thanking Stevens for her 1972 book gift of Maine\u27s Treasure Chest: Gems and Minerals of Oxford County to the Maine Author Collection
Replication Data for: How can social branding mitigate racism among fans in sports? A Q-sort analysis on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for reducing racism among soccer fans.
No full textThese are the tables of the analyses of the study of Stevens and Cremers (2021) in the Journal of Public Administration and Governance with the title: How can social branding reduce racism among fans in sport? An explorative study on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for banning racism from soccer stadiums. Feel free to contact the author for information about the analysis
Legacy of Repeated Disturbances in Mixed-Conifer Forests
No full textManagers and scientists alike are increasingly concerned with the impact of large disturbances on forests, especially under changing climate conditions. In this project, I aimed to understand the impacts of repeated disturbances, both wildfires and bark beetles, in mixed conifer forests. Mixed conifer forests are extensive throughout the western US, yet little is known about the impact of repeated disturbances on forest resilience. I addressed questions regarding vegetation responses following individual disturbances (either bark beetle or wildfires) and repeated disturbances (bark beetle and fire and repeated wildfires), as well as the impact of previous disturbances on the effects of subsequent wildfires. I used a combination of field work, remote sensing, and statistical analysis to answer questions at the stand and landscape scale. The interaction of bark beetles and wildfires did not result in different overall seedling density, surface fuel loading and stand structure than areas only impacted by wildfire. Bark beetle outbreaks without subsequent fires also resulted in the highest seedling establishment. I found repeatedly burned areas to have reduced fuel loading and tree regeneration than once burned areas, indicating increased resilience. Also, past wildfires reduced burn severity of subsequent large wildfires, but many other factors such as day of burning weather and topography also influenced burn severity. My work informs our understanding of forest trajectories and forest resilience following repeated disturbances. This work furthers our understanding of changes in forest landscapes following single and repeated disturbances and advances our ability to manage forests for increased resilience in the face of future disturbances.Thesis (Ph.D., Natural Resources)--University of Idaho, June 201
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