DOCSLIB.ORG

“One Off His Head'”:Escaping 'Clerkly Lives' in Middlebrow Fiction

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
“One Off His Head'”:Escaping 'Clerkly Lives' in Middlebrow Fiction ‘WHAT THOUGHT OF ‘HEAD OFFICE’ TO “ONE OFF HIS HEAD’”: ESCAPING ‘CLERKLY LIVES’ IN MIDDLEBROW FICTION (1859-1945) by Nicola Jane Bishop, B.A., M.A. (Lancaster University) Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph.D. Lancaster University, March, 2014 Declaration I declare that this thesis is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for the award of a higher degree elsewhere. UNIVEHSnV ’ 1 8 MAP, I7;i5 LANC AL'I ER 1 ProQuest Number: 11003770 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 11003770 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 ‘WHAT THOUGHT OF ‘HEAD OFFICE’ TO “ONE OFF HIS HEAD’” : ESCAPING ‘CLERKLY’ LIVES IN MIDDLEBROW FICTION (1859-1945) Nicola Jane Bishop, B.A., M.A. (Lancaster University) Thesis submitted for the degree of Ph.D. at Lancaster University, March, 2014 Abstract This thesis explores how the literary clerk, a nonentity by most accounts, became so emblematic of urban modernity by the early twentieth century that he served to unite the middle and high brows. While the thesis draws parallels with, and offers challenges to, our understanding of the parameters of modernist fiction, it does so through a detailed study of texts that are defined thus far as middlebrow. This includes the works of Victor Canning, Norman Collins, Keble Howard, P. G. Wodehouse, as well as Shan Bullock, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and Edwin Pugh. These authors address the plight of the clerk, and they do so from personal experience; most converted to full-time authorship after a period of office work. These novelists, then, are the product of a ‘clerkly’ fascination with reading, writing, and the acquisition of cultural capital. The narratives that they offer - filled with tales of clerical hardship - show that their sympathies lie with those who cannot write their way out of the office. This is a topographical study which identifies a series of ‘escapes’ that clerkly authors make available to their literary clerk. In framing the research in this way, this thesis assesses the validity of the typical clerk type before examining the spaces in which the clerk-character could begin to emerge as a viable literary ‘everyman’. The clerk is thus placed within those spaces which usually define him (the office and the suburb), demonstrating that underneath the fa$ade of conformity, there is a ‘human’ element. This human element is to be found in the subversion of office-time, the pleasurable retreat to the suburb, and, in the discovery of the ramble. This ultimate escape — an adventure in the Home Counties — showcases the moment in which the clerk-character, at last, becomes the clerk-author. 2 Contents Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Office 32 Chapter Two: The Suburbs 78 Chapter Three: The Ramble 129 Conclusion: Everyman a Clerk 178 Bibliography 190 3 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr James Taylor for teaching me to develop and not dismiss ideas, and Professor John Schad for encouraging me to find the better writer within myself. I also could not have finished this thesis without the continuous and continuing support, dedication, and affection of my first and favourite academic. For every 5am dog walk, every Friday Bolognese, and every late-night proof-read of this work, I thank you, Sam. To Megan, for showing me the scenic route. 4 Introduction There are thousands like him. There they go, hurrying for the bridges, each in his cheap black coat, each with pale face and uneven shoulders: thousands of them. Slaves of the desk. Twopenny clerks. And he is one of them, just a little higher in the clerkly scale perhaps, just a little superior in attainments and status maybe: but unmistakably one of them. A Twopenny clerk. Why, yes. Still he, with all the others, is to be respected. He is doing his best. He is cheerful, manly in his small way, hopeful, amazingly contented. Also he has a soul, this figure that I see in the crowd, and he has an ideal [...].' Shan Bullock, Robert Thorne: Diary of a London Clerk (1907) The clerical worker captured the imagination of modernity. Following the creation of vast commerce, an expanding banking sector, and the administration of empire, a growing tide of clerks crossed London Bridge from their suburban dwellings, destined for impressive new office buildings in banks and businesses. While London has always been seen as a whirl of movement - Wordsworth, for example, described the city as an ‘endless stream of men and moving things’ - the nineteenth century marked the moment in which that ‘stream’, for so many authors and spectators, became primarily clerical.2 Thus Edgar Allan Poe called the ‘tumultuous sea of human heads’ a ‘tribe of clerks’ in 1840; P. G. Wodehouse represented his clerks in 1910 as a ‘human stream’; and finally, in 1922, T. S. Eliot saw the clerks as undone by death, ‘flow[ing] over London Bridge’.3 All three authors had, in fact, themselves been a part of the clerical mass. Michael Heller has recently suggested that by 1911 as many as ten per cent of all male workers in London were clerks,4 and there were more who 1 Shan Bullock, Robert Thorne (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1907), p. 138. 2 William Wordsworth, ‘Book VII: Residence in London’, The Prelude (Oxford: Woodstock Books, 1993), p. 177. 3 Edgar Allen Poe, ‘The Man of the Crowd’, Selected Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, year unknown), pp. 85-6; P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith in the City (Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008), p. 20; T. S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’, Collected Poems and Plays (London: Faber and Faber, 1989), 11. 61-63, p. 63. 4 Michael Heller, London Clerical Workers 1880-1914: Development of the Labour Market (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), p. 1. 5 lived in the surrounding suburbs - those whom Norman Collins called the ‘half-urban hordes’ - commuting in each day to office buildings across the capital.5 The clerk not only personifies the commercial city but also typifies so many of the social changes that mark the nineteenth century: in particular, increasing suburbanisation and the democratisation of educational opportunities made available through the new Board Schools. It is no surprise, therefore, that in fiction the clerk became a figure of interest - or even, an ‘Everyman’ figure. This clerkly everyman not only suited the needs of a vast clerical audience but he also provided a fascinating, comic, and at times feared, social specimen. As Christopher Breward suggests, the ‘everyman’ was a ‘delineation [who was] depressingly uniform in his identity and habits’.6 Indeed, the middle classes so carefully avoided the petit-bourgeois clerk that the vastness of his class was subtly obscured from discourse. Instead, as Jonathan Wild has put it, the clerk becomes a spectre, lost within two-dimensional satire and stereotype.7 This thesis seeks, then, to bring the clerk figure to the fore by examining the clerkly subculture that arose from multiple representations produced both by middle-class observers and the clerks themselves. The focus will be on the construction of ‘clerkly’ spaces such as the office and the suburb demonstrating how the clerk came to reflect more widely the anxieties of everyday or ‘ordinary’ modernity. In doing so, I reclaim the title ‘everyman’ from what Breward called ‘journalistic jettison’ and draw attention to the collective empathy that saw the futility 5 Gregory Anderson suggests that there were only 91,000 clerks in 1851. By 1891, as F. M. L. Thompson calculates, the number of male clerks stood at 370,000, an increase of 279,000 from 1861, and by 1911, Heller suggests that at least 250,000 o f these clerks lived in the capital alone, with a further 129,430 clerks living in Middlesex, Essex, Surrey and Kent. By 1951, as Ross McKibbin suggests, there were 2.4 million ‘petty clerks and salesmen, insurance agents and shop assistants’ across England. Heller, London Clerical Workers, p. 1. Norman Collins, London Belongs to Me (London: Collins, 1947), p. 9; Anderson,Victorian Clerks (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), p. 2; Thompson, The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain 1830-1900 (London: Fontana Press, 1988), p. 68; Heller,London Clerical Workers, p. 14; McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 45. 6 Christopher Breward, “‘On the Bank’s Threshold”: Administrative Revolutions and the Fashioning of Masculine Identities at the Turn o f the Century’,Parallax, 3:2 (1997), p. 112 - my emphasis added. 7 Jonathan Wild, The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture 1880-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), p. 1. 6 of clerkdom as a suitable symbol for fin-de-siecle anxieties and early-twentieth- century concerns.8 In placing the clerk at the heart of this narrative, I am suggesting that the dominance of the lower-middle-class clerk is a marker of the social shift that benefitted both authors and readers alike in creating a distinct petit-bourgeois hegemony. In this way, the lower-middle-class clerk benefitted most from Virginia Woolfs claims that ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’ because, for a time, the self-confessed ‘nobody’ took centre stage.9 As Christine DeVine puts it, ‘Mr Polly and Kipps [...] represent no serious threat to the status quo [...but] their very existence in the popular fiction of the day, written by a well-known and popular author, constitutes in itself such a threat’.10 In a literary scene divided into two opposing camps - the ‘middle’ and ‘high’ brows - the clerk could threaten not only the status quo but the construction of opposition between these two groups (an opposition that has been continued until the present day).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • On the Margin of Cities. Representation of Urban Space in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction Philippe Laplace, Eric Tabuteau
    Cities on the Margin; On the Margin of Cities. Representation of Urban Space in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction Philippe Laplace, Eric Tabuteau To cite this version: Philippe Laplace, Eric Tabuteau. Cities on the Margin; On the Margin of Cities. Representation of Urban Space in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction. 2003. hal-02320291 HAL Id: hal-02320291 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02320291 Submitted on 14 Nov 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Cities on the Margin; On the Margin of Cities 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Gérard BREY (University of Franche-Comté, Besançon), Foreword ..... 9 Philippe LAPLACE & Eric TABUTEAU (University of Franche- Comté, Besançon), Cities on the Margin; On the Margin of Cities ......... 11 Richard SKEATES (Open University), "Those vast new wildernesses of glass and brick:" Representing the Contemporary Urban Condition ......... 25 Peter MILES (University of Wales, Lampeter), Road Rage: Urban Trajectories and the Working Class ............................................................ 43 Tim WOODS (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Re-Enchanting the City: Sites and Non-Sites in Urban Fiction ................................................ 63 Eric TABUTEAU (University of Franche-Comté, Besançon), Marginally Correct: Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners ....................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Language and Conflict in English Literature from Gaskell to Tressell
    ARTICULATING CLASS: LANGUAGE AND CONFLICT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM GASKELL TO TRESSELL Timothy John James University of Cape Town Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN JANUARY 1992 The copyright of this thesis vests in the author. No quotation from it or information derived from it is to be published without full acknowledgement of the source. The thesis is to be used for private study or non- commercial research purposes only. Published by the University of Cape Town (UCT) in terms of the non-exclusive license granted to UCT by the author. University of Cape Town ABSTRACT ARTICULATING CLASS: LANGUAGE AND CONFLICT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, FROM GASKELL TO TRESSELL Concentrating on English literary texts written between the 1830s and 1914 and which have the working class as their central focus, the thesis examines various ways in which class conflict inheres within the textual language, particularly as far as the representation of working-class speech is concerned. The study is made largely within V. N. Voloshinov's understanding of language. Chapter 1 examines the social role of "standard English" (including accent) and its relationship to forms of English stigmatised as inadequate, and argues that the phoneticisation of working-class speech in novels like those of William Pett Ridge is to indicate its inadequacy within a situation where use of the "standard language" is regarded as a mark of all kinds of superiority, and where the language of narrative prose has, essentially, the "accent" of "standard English". The periodisation of the thesis is discussed: the "industrial reformist" novels of the Chartist years and the "slum literature" of the 1880s and '90s were bourgeois responses to working-class struggle.
    [Show full text]
  • Overview of the English Rail System
    House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Overview of the English rail system Tenth Report of Session 2021–22 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 July 2021 HC 170 Published on 7 July 2021 by authority of the House of Commons The Committee of Public Accounts The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to examine “the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit” (Standing Order No. 148). Current membership Meg Hillier MP (Labour (Co-op), Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Chair) Mr Gareth Bacon MP (Conservative, Orpington) Kemi Badenoch MP (Conservative, Saffron Walden) Shaun Bailey MP (Conservative, West Bromwich West) Olivia Blake MP (Labour, Sheffield, Hallam) Dan Carden MP (Labour, Liverpool, Walton) Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP (Conservative, The Cotswolds) Mr Mark Francois MP (Conservative, Rayleigh and Wickford) Barry Gardiner MP (Labour, Brent North) Peter Grant MP (Scottish National Party, Glenrothes) Antony Higginbotham MP (Conservative, Burnley) Mr Richard Holden MP (Conservative, North West Durham) Craig Mackinlay MP (Conservative, Thanet) Sarah Olney MP (Liberal Democrat, Richmond Park) Nick Smith MP (Labour, Blaenau Gwent) James Wild MP (Conservative, North West Norfolk) Powers Powers of the Committee of Public Accounts are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No. 148. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2021. This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is published at https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/.
    [Show full text]
  • November 2011 ------London Particular the Dickens Fellowship Newsletter ______
    No. 31 November 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- London Particular The Dickens Fellowship Newsletter ______________________________________________________________________ A new boss for Miss Abbey Potterson Celebrity Corner Female staff at the Charles Jan Turner has sent in an interesting recent item Dickens Museum were in a flutter recently over from the national press. Sir Ian McKellen, actor, the unexpected arrival of a bearded Ralph is buying “The Grapes” public house in Narrow Fiennes. He was seeking a copy of the play, “The Street, Limehouse, East London, which was Frozen Deep”, as he is involved in a film version immortalised as “The Six Jolly Fellowship- of Claire Tomalin’s “The Invisible Woman”, the Porters” pub in “Our Mutual Friend” in 1864. Sir story of Dickens’s relationship with Ellen Ternan. Ian is apparently a regular visitor and lives nearby. It was through the production of this play, of It is a delightful pub, over 300 years old, with a course, that CD met her. After some research, gallery at the rear which overlooks the Thames. the Museum was, fortunately, able to supply Mr The name “Jolly Fellowship-Porters” refers to Fiennes with a copy! By the way, Claire members of the Fellowship of Billingsgate fish Tomalin’s new book, “Charles Dickens: A Life”, market porters, a form of guild for relatively will have been published by the time you read this. unskilled labourers. Lovers‟ Corner Romance blossomed in the CD Shades of Mr Krook? A coroner in Galway, Museum recently, when a Dickens fan hired one Ireland, has recorded that an elderly man who of its rooms, took his girl-friend to visit, then used died in an unexplained fire was a victim of the room to propose to her! Happily, she “spontaneous human combustion” - the first time accepted him.
    [Show full text]
  • THE IMAGINATION of CLASS Bivona Fm 3Rd.Qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page Ii Bivona Fm 3Rd.Qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page Iii
    Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page i THE IMAGINATION OF CLASS Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page ii Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page iii THE IMAGINATION OF CLASS Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle The Ohio State University Press Columbus Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page iv Copyright © 2006 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bivona, Daniel. The imagination of class : masculinity and the Victorian urban poor / Dan Bivona, Roger B. Henkle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8142-1019-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8142-9096-5 (cd-rom) 1. English prose literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Urban poor—Great Britain—History—19th century. 3. Social classes in literature. 4. Masculinity in lit- erature. 5. Sex role in literature. 6. Poverty in literature. 7. Poor in literature. I. Henkle, Roger B. II. Title. PR878.P66B58 2006 828’.80809352624—dc22 2005030683 Cover design by Dan O’Dair. Text design and typesetting by Jennifer Shoffey Forsythe. Printed by Thomson Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page v In Memory of Roger B. Henkle 1937–1991 Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page vi Bivona_fm_3rd.qxd 2/9/2006 4:56 PM Page vii - CONTENTS - Preface ix Foreword by
    [Show full text]
  • Onion ) Volume 3 Issue 03 Spring 2009
    T 0 ast P NEWSLETTER onion_) Volume 3 Issue 03 Spring 2009 /C, C William Whiffin photograph of boys following Poplar Borough Council water cart, 1919 CONTENTS: Editorial Note 2 East End Photographers 5 — William Whiffin 6 Memorial Research 2 Notes and News 9 Obituary — Mary Cable 3 Strange or What!!! 11 Programme Details 4 Bookshelf 13 Bancroft Library Update 5 Mementos of Tower Hamlets - Website 16 ELVIS Newsletter Spring 2009 Editorial Note: MEMORIAL RESEARCH I At the Annual General Meeting, held on 30th October 2008, the following Committee Doreen and Diane Kendall, with Doreen members were re-elected: Philip Mernick, Osborne and other volunteers continue their Chairman, Doreen Kendall, Secretary, Harold work in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Mernick, Membership, David Behr, meticulously researching graves and recording Programme, Ann Sansom, Doreen Osborne, memorial inscriptions. They would welcome and Rosemary Taylor. All queries regarding any help members can offer. Their work has membership should be addressed to Harold grown into a project of enormous proportions Mernick, 42 Campbell Road, Bow, London E3 and complexity, with an impressive database 4DT. of graves researched, with illustrations attached. Enquiries to Doreen Kendall, 20 Puteaux House, Cranbrook Estate, Bethnal Green, Unfortunately, due to pressure of work, London E2 ORF, Tel: 0208 981 7680, or Philip Doreen and Diane cannot undertake any Memick, email: philmernicks com research on behalf of individuals, but would welcome any information that has been Check out the History Society's website at uncovered through personal searches. Meet www.eastIondonhistory.org.uk. them in the Cemetery Park on the 2nd Sunday of every month at 2 pm, where you can Our grateful thanks go to all the contributors receive helpful advice and suggestions on the of this edition of the newsletter, with a special best way to conduct your searches.
    [Show full text]
  • Radiotimes-July1967.Pdf
    msmm THE POST Up-to-the-Minute Comment IT is good to know that Twenty. Four Hours is to have regular viewing time. We shall know when to brew the coffee and to settle down, as with Panorama, to up-to- the-minute comment on current affairs. Both programmes do a magnifi- cent job of work, whisking us to all parts of the world and bringing to the studio, at what often seems like a moment's notice, speakers of all shades of opinion to be inter- viewed without fear or favour. A Memorable Occasion One admires the grasp which MANYthanks for the excellent and members of the team have of their timely relay of Die Frau ohne subjects, sombre or gay, and the Schatten from Covent Garden, and impartial, objective, and determined how strange it seems that this examination of controversial, and opera, which surely contains often delicate, matters: with always Strauss's s most glorious music. a glint of humour in the right should be performed there for the place, as with Cliff Michelmore's first time. urbane and pithy postscripts. Also, the clear synopsis by Alan A word of appreciation, too, for Jefferson helped to illuminate the the reporters who do uncomfort- beauty of the story and therefore able things in uncomfortable places the great beauty of the music. in the best tradition of news ser- An occasion to remember for a Whitstabl*. � vice.-J. Wesley Clark, long time. Clive Anderson, Aughton Park. Another Pet Hate Indian Music REFERRING to correspondence on THE Third Programme recital by the irritating bits of business in TV Subbulakshmi prompts me to write, plays, my pet hate is those typists with thanks, and congratulate the in offices and at home who never BBC on its superb broadcasts of use a backing sheet or take a car- Indian music, which I have been bon copy.
    [Show full text]
  • MONTY PYTHON at 50 , a Month-Long Season Celebra
    Tuesday 16 July 2019, London. The BFI today announces full details of IT’S… MONTY PYTHON AT 50, a month-long season celebrating Monty Python – their roots, influences and subsequent work both as a group, and as individuals. The season, which takes place from 1 September – 1 October at BFI Southbank, forms part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the beloved comedy group, whose seminal series Monty Python’s Flying Circus first aired on 5th October 1969. The season will include all the Monty Python feature films; oddities and unseen curios from the depths of the BFI National Archive and from Michael Palin’s personal collection of super 8mm films; back-to-back screenings of the entire series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in a unique big-screen outing; and screenings of post-Python TV (Fawlty Towers, Out of the Trees, Ripping Yarns) and films (Jabberwocky, A Fish Called Wanda, Time Bandits, Wind in the Willows and more). There will also be rare screenings of pre-Python shows At Last the 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set, both of which will be released on BFI DVD on Monday 16 September, and a free exhibition of Python-related material from the BFI National Archive and The Monty Python Archive, and a Python takeover in the BFI Shop. Reflecting on the legacy and approaching celebrations, the Pythons commented: “Python has survived because we live in an increasingly Pythonesque world. Extreme silliness seems more relevant now than it ever was.” IT’S… MONTY PYTHON AT 50 programmers Justin Johnson and Dick Fiddy said: “We are delighted to share what is undoubtedly one of the most absurd seasons ever presented by the BFI, but even more delighted that it has been put together with help from the Pythons themselves and marked with their golden stamp of silliness.
    [Show full text]
  • What Will Reform Mean for Britain's Railways?
    148 HelpingNEWS ensure a sustainable future for UK rail freight July 2021 What will reform mean for Britain’s railways? Opportunity of a lifetime to grow freight if Great British Railways reform delivers on promises. P.3 First freight train for The Rail Freight Group (RFG) welcomed the creation of Great British Railways is a unique Port of Sunderland. publication of the Williams – Shapps Plan for opportunity to meet these ambitions if it ensures Rail, which offers the opportunity of a lifetime that private sector rail freight operators can to accelerate the growth of rail freight, flourish, and that customers and suppliers are helping decarbonise UK freight transport and encouraged to invest for growth.” meeting the needs of its customers. She added: “We look forward to working with Under the plans set out by Government a Government as they develop the detailed new organisation, Great British Railways, will proposals, including for reform of track access be created to plan and run the rail network, and a new role for the ORR. It will be essential incorporating Network Rail and passenger that the new structure and systems truly deliver P.4 services. Importantly, the new body will have a on their promise for rail freight.” statutory duty to promote freight, and a national Ports benefit from freight co-ordination team will be created to Reform has been widely welcomed across the 775m freight trains. improve the freight customer experience. freight sector. Eddie Aston, CEO for G&W’s Government will also set a growth target for rail UK/Europe Region companies, said: “We freight, as has been done in Scotland, and will welcome the publication of the Williams-Shapps issue guidance on its priorities for rail freight Plan for Rail.
    [Show full text]
  • Celluloid Television Culture the Specificity of Film on Television: The
    ORBIT-OnlineRepository ofBirkbeckInstitutionalTheses Enabling Open Access to Birkbeck’s Research Degree output Celluloid Television Culture The Specificity of Film on Television: the Action-adventure Text as an Example of a Production and Textual Strategy, 1955 – 1978. https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40025/ Version: Full Version Citation: Sexton, Max (2013) Celluloid Television Culture The Speci- ficity of Film on Television: the Action-adventure Text as an Example of a Production and Textual Strategy, 1955 – 1978. [Thesis] (Unpublished) c 2020 The Author(s) All material available through ORBIT is protected by intellectual property law, including copy- right law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Deposit Guide Contact: email Celluloid Television Culture The Specificity of Film on Television: the Action-adventure Text as an Example of a Production and Textual Strategy, 1955 – 1978. Max Sexton A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, 2012. Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis presented by me for examination of the PhD degree is solely my own work, other than where I have clearly indicated. Birkbeck, University of London Abstract of Thesis (5ST) Notes for Candidate: 1. Type your abstract on the other side of this sheet. 2. Use single-spacing typing. Limit your abstract to one side of the sheet. 3. Please submit this copy of your abstract to the Research Student Unit, Birkbeck, University of London, Registry, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, at the same time as you submit copies of your thesis. 4. This abstract will be forwarded to the University Library, which will send this sheet to the British Library and to ASLIB (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux) for publication to Index to Theses .
    [Show full text]
  • Chaucer Auctions Internet Only
    Chaucer Auctions Internet Only . Autograph Auction Entertainment, Military, Sport & Aviation . Started Mar 06, 2015 10am GMT United Kingdom Lot Description Air Cdre Alan Deere DSO DFC WW2 fighter ace signed Mosquito Aircraft Museum cover MAM8 Tiger Moth. Flown and signed by the 1 pilot and owner. Good condition Grp Capt John Cunningham DSO DFC the top nightfighter ace of WW2 and later Comet test pilot signed Mosquito Aircraft Museum 2 DeHaviland DH110 cover flown by Sea Vixen and also signed by the two pilots. Good condition Richard Attenborough signed 463 467 Australian RAF squadrons cover flown by QANTUS 747 Also signed by Sqn Ldr Sneller AFC. 3 Scarce variety. Good condition Sir Bernard Lovell signed RAF Medmenham 25th ann Inspectorate of Radio Service cover, flown by RAF Argosy, only 253 were issued. 4 Good condition AVM Sir Harold Mick Martin DFC the famous 617 Sqn Dambuster Raid pilot signed 1981 Leonard Cheshire homes cover flown by 5 Lancaster. Good condition Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward signed RAF The Task Force to the Falkland Islands cover RAF(AC)4, flown by Hercules. He was the 6 Task Force commander in the War. Good condition 7 Ricky Wilson signed 10 x 8 colour photo, lead singer of Kaiser Chiefs and one of the judges on the TV show The Voice. Good condition 8 Vin Diesel signed 10 x 8 colour action photo from Fast & Furious. Good condition 9 Jayne Torvil1 & Christopher Dean signed white card. Good condition 10 Felix Baumgartner signed stunning 10 x 8 colour photo of his recent World record parachute jump from space.
    [Show full text]
  • WIDOWS on Talking Pictures TV
    Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 26th August 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 WIDOWS on Talking Pictures TV A gritty crime series with strong female characters played by Ann Mitchell, Maureen O’Farrell, Fiona Hendley, and Eva Mottley with Debby Bishop, Maurice O’Connell and David Calder, Widows was one of the most influential dramas of the 1980s. It was a smash hit for ITV and the career breakthrough for Lynda La Plante who became one of television’s highest profile writers, later to write Prime Suspect. La Plante had played small roles in The Sweeney and Out. Frustrated with the way women were depicted for TV drama, she submitted a pilot script and was encouraged by script editor Linda Agran to complete the serial. The series features the wives of a London gang who decide to carry out the plans of their deceased husbands and execute an armed robbery. Episode 1 airs Wed 28th August at 21:00; the series continues every Wednesday at the same time. Mon 26th Aug 2019 10:25 Tues 27th Aug 19 14:40 Hand in Hand (1962) A Tale of Two Cities (1958) Drama, directed by Philip Leacock. Drama, directed by Ralph Thomas. Stars: John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, & Loretta Parry. A Roman Catholic Cecil Parker & Stephen Murray. boy and a Jewish girl become During the French Revolution, best friends despite the prejudice Lucie Manette falls in love with a around them. duplicitous Englishman. NEW SERIES Wed 28th Aug 19 18:10 Mon 26th Aug 2019 21:00 Do You Know This Voice (1964) SPECIAL BRANCH Drama, directed by Frank Nesbitt.
    [Show full text]