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The East London Theatre Archive: Map View
No full textThe East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) is a database of East London theatre ephemera provided by the V & A Theatre Collections, East London theatres and UEL archives.
ELTA's collection ranges from 1827 to the present day, including playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs. It also has themed essays to contextualise the material and maps showing theatre locations.
This resource enables you to browse the collection using a map view.
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
A Lasting Legacy for London? Assessing the legacy of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
No full textResearch commissioned by the London Assembly: The IOC provides a comprehensive library of reports and bid documentation for each summer Olympiad. The bid documents of all applicant cities and the IOC evaluation of the bids are contained on the IOC website. Each host city has also been required to provide a comprehensive report on the Games and its legacy; this takes the form of a final report typically published about two years after the completion of the Games. These documents offer a useful starting point for an economic evaluation of each Olympic event. Most non-IOC economic impact studies have focused upon specific cities and events and have not utilised indicators that may be transposed easily from one host city to another. The main exception is Preuss (2004). There is also a significant literature relating to the development of the IOC’s Olympic Global Games Impact Study (OGGI)
The economic regeneration of London docklands: a labour market analysis
No full textPhDIn 1980 the London Docklands Development Corporation
(LDDC) was designated as the organisation responsible for
the physical, economic and social regeneration of the area
in East London known as London Docklands. It-is argued
that an evaluation of LDDC policy impact on the labour
market will be useful for two reasons. First, it will
make a contribution to the academic discussion on the
causes of economic and social change in this part of
London. This is made all the more necessary because much
previous research has concentrated on political issues,
whilst paying only lip-service to many of the other
economic and social forces that cause change. Second, at
a practical level, the controversial nature of LDDC
initiatives necessitates a detailed study of policy
impact.
A conceptual model of the labour market is developed
based on segmented labour market theory. It includes the
key influences on the demand and supply side of the labour
market and the interaction process between demand and
supply. This allows the evaluation of LDDC policy to take
account of other forces that cause change in the labour
market. The broad conclusion is that LDDC policy has had
a very limited impact on the local labour market and an
explanation of change in London Docklands must include
other economic and social forces
British immigration control procedures and Jewish refugees 1933-1942.
No full textPhDThis thesis is an historical account of the British
government's regulation of the immigration to the United
Kingdom of Jewish refugees in flight from Nazi persecution.
The focus of the study is the administration of immigration
controls, with particular emphasis on the groups of refugees
for whom entry was possible and the conditions subject to
which they were admitted. The administrative process is also
examined in the context of policy. The results of the
government's efforts to control the influx are set against
policy goals, in order to assess both the extent to which
the quest for control was successful, and the extent to
which it led to unintended consequences. The relationship
between policy and procedure is thus a key theme of this
study.
The bulk of the thesis is concerned with policy-making and
administration within government, and is based on documents
in the Public Record Office(PRO). Other sources used include
private papers of ministers and officials, records of Jewish
organisations, archives of refugee committees and
interviews, listed in the bibliography. The material largely
concerns the work of Whitehall departments, interdepartmental
relations and activities at Cabinet-level. Home
Office policy and practice are covered in particular detail.
The contributions of other government departments,
particularly the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Labour and
the Treasury, are also discussed. Another important topic is
the policy-making and administrative role of nongovernmental
organisations, especially refugee committees.
The introduction is followed by a chapter outlining the
legal and administrative history of immigration control
since 1905. succeeding chapters deal chronologically with
the British response to the immigration of Jewish refugees
from 1933 to 1942. The conclusion discusses whether British
policy was humanitarian or self-interested. Two appendixes
contain brief biographical notes on persons relevant to the
thesis and a list of Home Secretaries and Home Office
Permanent Under Secretaries
The East London Theatre Archive
No full textThe East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) is a database of East London theatre ephemera provided by the V & A Theatre Collections, East London theatres and UEL archives.
ELTA's collection ranges from 1827 to the present day, including playbills and programmes to press cuttings and photographs. It also has themed essays to contextualise the material and maps showing theatre locations.
The Commemoration of the Great War in the City and East London, 1916-1989
No full textPhDThe aim of the thesis is to understand how the communities of the City and
East London area reacted to the human losses of the Great War. It is an
investigation of how the intangible and abstract emotions of grief, pride and
bereavement were turned into solid expressions via the war memorials
movement. It is also the aim of the study to provide a balance to the
fashionable view of the twenties and thirties as a time of disillusion over the
Great War and a period in which the values of 1914 were completely rejected.
Undoubtedly the War and the tenets surrounding it did undergo a form of
examination and questioning during this period; but the thesis seeks to show
that through the war memorials and Armistice Day rituals the values that
provided the dynamic behind the War were still accepted by many throughout
the inter-war years. By examining the development of Armistice Day and the
growth of a common "war memory" in a detailed local case study, war
memorials will be put into their true context; many studies take the erection of
the memorial as an end in itselE However, the memorials were designed to
serve a continuing need to remember and so this aspect must be integral to the
study.
The factors that influenced the nature of these memorials and the associated
rituals are part of the project; class, religion, politicial traditions, social and
economic influences. The thesis seeks to show how far the traditional bonds of
community in the East London area were applied to the scale of human loss;
how it was explained and made into a comprehensible phenomenon thaink to
the actions of the local agents of authority and influence - clergymen, rabbis,
councillors, teachers and employers. The thesis is therefore a detailed, case
study of the effect of the War on a distinct area which contextualises and in
many cases challenges received opinion
Curiosity, Commerce, and Conversation in the Writing of London Horticulturists during the Early-Eighteenth Century
No full textPhDThis dissertation explores the social and literary worlds of horticulturists
who lived, worked, and wrote in early-eighteenth-century London. The period
witnessed not only a growing market for printed books and pamphlets about
gardening, but also the emergence of the nurseryman as a distinct commercial and
cultural identity. In many cases, trading nurserymen also published horticultural
writing, their texts exploiting the publicity of representation both in order to
persuade readers of the quality and reliability of their goods and services, and to
evidence a wide range of intellectual interests and social aspirations. At the same
time, increasing numbers of more gentlemanly authors had recourse to nursery
and physic (or botanical) gardens and their curators as authoritative sources for
their own manuals of horticulture and treatises of natural philosophy.
Part one addresses the publications produced by nursery-gardeners and
seedsmen during the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Through
close-readings of texts by George London and Henry Wise, Thomas Fairchild, and
John Cowell, chapters one and two examine how such men sought to represent
themselves as polite and precise practitioners of gardening successful in their
businesses, sociable in their dispositions, and curious in their approaches to the
natural world. Chapter three embellishes these themes by describing the
genealogy and formation of the Society of Gardeners, a voluntary association of
horticultural tradesmen.
Part two (chapters four and five) locates these broad arguments more
specifically, by presenting a biographical account of Richard Bradley, the most
important and prolific horticultural writer of the 1710s and 1720s. Combining
published and manuscript resources these chapters interrogate pivotal moments in
Bradley's career, demonstrating how its undulating trajectory was shaped by the
opportunities and limitations afforded within the spaces of physic gardens (both
real and projected), and ultimately turned on his capacity for manipulating
contemporary practices and conventions of curiosity and sociability
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