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Oral history interview of John Challis, conducted by William Challis (video)
No full textJohn Challis discusses his career as an educator and his awareness of past pandemics. He also talks about his attitude about vaccination and getting the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as social distancing protocols in schools He discusses transitioning to remote work for high school teaching and remote services for church during the pandemic
Letter from Challis Walker to John and Dolly Sloan, February 14, 1940
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Challis Walker to John and Dolly Sloan, February 14, 194
Letter from Challis Walker to John and Dolly Sloan, February 14, 1940
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Letter from Challis Walker to John and Dolly Sloan, February 14, 194
‘In Person: Bloodaxe Books, Neil Astley on Translation, interviewed by John Challis’
No full textBloodaxe Books was founded by Neil Astley in 1978. Starting out to address an imbalance in UK poetry publishing, Astley began publishing working-class poets from the North of England who at the time were poorly represented by mainstream publishers. Since then and throughout its 45-year history, Bloodaxe has championed diversity, publishing women, black, Asian and minority ethnic poets, while gathering an international reputation as a publisher of poetry in translation. In 2021, the poet John Challis undertook research in the Bloodaxe Books Archive at The Philip Robinson Library at Newcastle University to inform a series of interviews with Astley as part of a project funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (Principal Investigator: Professor Sinéad Morrissey). Recorded over summer 2021, these interviews explored and documented the history of Bloodaxe Books as well as Astley’s and Bloodaxe’s contribution to diversifying UK poetry publishing. This excerpt focusses on Bloodaxe’s work to publish poetry in translation, with a particular focus on process, censorship, and the story of Irina Ratushinskaya, whose publication by Bloodaxe contributed to her eventual freedom from a Soviet Labour camp in 1986. This interview between John Challis (JC) and Neil Astley (NA), took place on Tuesday 27 July 2021 at Bloodaxe’s offices in Hexham, Northumberland
The Black Cab
No full text“The poems in The Black Cab show John Challis’s increasingly confident handling of a rich seam of material in which several subjects combine, including family his-tory, work, class, and the larger social and political history by which they are all shaped and which they in turn illuminate. Challis is able to explore this terrain in ways at once lyric and dramatic, with a rich human sympathy and curiosity, and with a powerful sense of the unceasing competition between memory and mortality. His world is at once material and in a sense metaphysical: beneath its streets the underworld stands open. It’s an exciting debut.” Sean O'Brie
sj-pdf-1-spo-10.1177_17479541241247308 - Supplemental material for The relationship between ball mass and throw distance: Implications for coaching practice
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-spo-10.1177_17479541241247308 for The relationship between ball mass and throw distance: Implications for coaching practice by John H. Challis in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching</p
6 Degrees of Bob Godfrey an imaginative life
No full textA film retrospective and special discussion panel with Kevin Baldwin, John Challis and Steve Bell talking about working with Bob Godfrey
Fen mapping for the Salmon-Challis National Forest
No full textPrepared for: Salmon-Challis National Forest.December 2017.Includes bibliographical references.The Salmon-Challis National Forest (SCNF) covers 4.3 million acres in five discontinuous units within east-central Idaho. Wetlands within the SCNF provide important ecological services to both the Forest and lands downstream. Organic soil wetlands, known as fens, are an irreplaceable resource that the U.S. Forest Service has determined should be managed for conservation and restoration. Fens are defined as groundwater-fed wetlands with organic soils that typically support sedges and low stature shrubs. In the arid west, organic soil formation can take thousands of years. Long-term maintenance of fens requires maintenance of both the hydrology and the plant communities that enable fen formation. ... This report and associated dataset provide the SCNF with a critical tool for conservation planning at both a local and Forest-wide scale. These data will be useful for the ongoing SCNF biological assessment required by the 2012 Forest Planning Rule, but can also be used for individual management actions, such as planning for timber sales, grazing allotments, and trail maintenance. Wherever possible, the Forest should avoid direct disturbance to the fens mapped through this project, and should also strive to protect the watersheds surrounding high concentrations of fens, thereby protecting their water sources
The Resurrectionists
No full textThe living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis’s dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London’s veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain. Amidst the political disquiet rising from the groundwater, or the unearthing of the class divide at the gravesides of plague victims, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest when a child is born, and something close to hope for the future is resurrected
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The petrogenesis of the Eocene Challis Volcanic Group, Idaho, western U.S.A.
No full textThe rocks of the Challis Volcanic Group, Idaho are investigated and constraints on their petrogenesis used to evaluate the tectonic control on the formation of early, extensionassociated magmatism in the western U. S. A. New and published 40Ar-39Ar analyses indicate that the rocks of the Challis Volcanic Group erupted between ~50 and 45 Ma at extrusion rates estimated at 0.01 to 0.03 km3 yr-1. The rocks have high-K calcalkaline/ shoshonitic compositions and incompatible trace element analyses show them to be LILE and LREE enriched ((La/Yb) ~7 to 20) but relatively depleted in Nb, Ta and Ti (e. g. Nb/La 87Sr/86Sr (0.70673 to 0.71135) and low 143Nd/144Nd (0.51151 to 0.51234) ratios in comparison to oceanic basalts. The rocks are interpreted to result from partial melting in both spinel and garnet facies of heterogeneousm, ajor elementd epleted,L REE enriched but Nb, Ta and Ti depletedp eridotite source regions in the lithospheric mantle. The origin of these LREE enriched source regions is most probably related to mantle metasomatism in a subduction zone tectonic setting, although the' age of these events are not constrained. The petrogenesis of the Challis Volcanic Group is broadly similar to early magmatism from areas of the Cordillera to the south (e. g. Colorado River Trough), but contrasts with areas to the north where crustal melting apparently dominates (e. g. northern Idaho: Omineca Belt). Thus it is suggested that the syn-compression thermal history of the Cordillera, immediately prior to extension and early magmatism, varies significantly between southern and northern Idaho. This variation correlates spatially with the northern limit of compression within the Laramide Foreland Province (~75 to 45/30 Ma). Compressional deformation within the Laramide Foreland Province may be coincident with a period of sub-horizontal subduction and therefore partial melting of the mantle lithosphere may be related to the removal of this subducted slab from beneath the lithosphere, although this remains poorly constrained. A comparison is made between the Challis Volcanic Group and Archaean sanukitoids, to suggest that the Tertiary rocks may provide a tectonomagmatic analogue for these particular late Archaean rocks. The implications of this comparison for late Archaean tectonics and crustal growth are discussed
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