DOCSLIB.ORG

Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Vol 1 No 4 Winter 2011/12 incorporating Islington History Journal The fight for Finsbury Health Centre How patients and residents worked to keep it as a place for community healthcare Las Vegas weddings in Georgian London l An armchair cruise down the Fleet river l The company that brought TV into living rooms l Christmas at Beale’s emporium on Holloway Road l A corner garden on Upper Street l Growing up in a tenement in the 1930s l Four pages of winter reading l Your local history questions answered l News and events About the society What we do Memories, reviews, old photographs, Islington Archaeology & ideas sought… contribute to this journal History Society Committee hesocietyarranges President lectures,walks,visits Wewelcomecontributions, streetsorbuildings?Send RtHonLordSmith Tandoutingsabout includingarticlesonlocal theminforourtireless ofFinsbury thearchaeologyandhistory history,memoriesandmore researcherMichaelReading ofIslington. academicpieces. –andmaybeotherreaders Vice-president Weliaisewiththecouncil Eachpagetakesabout500 –toanswer. MaryCosh andothersinmattersof words,andmaximumarticle lSeeLetters,page6 planninganddevelopment lengthis1,000words.Email Chairman and acting torecordandprotect theeditorforacopyofour Copyright secretary Islington’ssitesthatareof writingguidelines. Copyrightofeverythingin AndrewGardner archaeologicalandhistorical Welikereceivingpictures, thisjournallieswiththe [email protected] importance. butpleasecheckthatwecan creatorunlessotherwise Wealsoaimtodocument reproducethemwithout stated.Whileitcanbedifficult Membership and events archaeologicalfindingsin infringinganyone’scopyright. totracecopyrightownership CatherineBrighty theborough. Deadlineforthespring ofarchivematerials,we 8WynyattStreet Localhistoricaland issueis1February. makeeveryefforttodoso. London literarywalksarearranged EC1V7HU forgroups. Ever wondered…? Any questions? 02078331541 Doyouhaveanyqueries ContacteditorChristy Why archaeology? aboutIslington’shistory, Lawrance(detailsright). Treasurer Archaeologyisnotjust PhilipAnderson aboutwhatisburied;it phlpandrsn6@ includesstructuresand Join us and benefit from membership btopenworld.com fragmentsthatstillexist,and thepeoplewholived, Membersreceivethis buildingrestoration, Committee members workedanddiedinthem. journalandareinvitedto entertainment,healthand KathleenFrenchman Weareheretoinvestigate, 10talksayearwithguest healthservices,andcrime. PeterFuller learnandcelebratewhatis speakersandotherevents. Membersalsoreceive MichaelHarper lefttous. Werunawiderangeof thejournalfourtimes DerekSeeley talks,withtopicsincluding ayear. Our website architecture,gardens, Non-membersarealways Academic adviser Gotowww.iahs.org.ukto transport,industry,politics, welcomeattalks–weinvite LesterHillman,former findoutmoreaboutusand socialchange,London’s a£1donationtowardsthe visitingprofessor,London ourevents. waterways,map-making, speaker’sexpenses. MetropolitanBusiness School,London (photocopiesacceptable) $ MetropolitanUniversity Join the Islington Archaeology & History Society Newsletter editor Membershipperyearis:£10single;£12jointatsameaddress;concessions£6;joint ChristyLawrance concessions£8;corporate£15 [email protected] c/o6Northview Name(s).................................................................................................................................... TufnellParkRoad LondonN70QB Address.................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................. The Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Telno/email(ifweneedtocontactyou).............................................................................. ispublishedfourtimes ayear I/Wewouldlikesingle/joint/concession/jointconcession/corporatemembership,and encloseachequepayableto“IslingtonArcheology&HistorySociety”for................. ISSN2046-8245 Pleasereturnthisform(photocopiesacceptable)to:IslingtonArchaeology&History PrintedbyCLPHolborn Society,8WynyattStreet,LondonEC1V7HU 16BaldwinsGardens Cover picture: Finsbury Health Centre by Gordon Cullen, courtesy of John Allan Gordon Cullen, courtesy of John Health Centre by picture: Finsbury Cover LondonEC1N7RJ 2 JournaloftheIslingtonArchaeology&HistorySocietyWinter2011/12Vol1 No4 Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Incorporating Islington History Journal Vol 1 No 4 Winter 2011/12 Tales of the course of the Fleet river he Fleet river, which once ran along much of Islington’s Contents Twestern boundary, has long disappeared under roads and pave- ments. Place names remind us of it News 4 and you can still hear it gurgling Modernist gem saved from redevelopment through gratings in a couple of places. Joe Orton’s defaced books go on show In 2012, the society is planning walks Heritage centre plans stall Pump House conversion into flats along the Fleet’s route, taking in the sights, sounds and smells along the way. Letters and your questions 6 A printing firm in Cross Street, a nursing home and a pub family Marriage, Las Vegas style The Fleet gave its name to the The fight for Finsbury Health Centre 8 notorious prison and to the A determined campaign to stop the sale of Lubektin’s masterpiece also-notorious Fleet marriages. The area around the prison was the TV firm boxes clever 10 Las Vegas of its day. Couples could just The Islington firm that made the first televisions turn up and get married, without having to go through the processes Christmas at Beale’s 12 approved by the government and the North London descends on the Holloway store for some excessive shopping church. These weddings were extremely popular – the journal looks at why. The Last Vegas of Georgian London 14 Why couples headed for the Fleet prison area to get married Star of Upper Street As we went to press, English Heritage The garden on the corner 16 announced it is to erect a blue plaque How a small garden on Upper Street came to be to commemorate Gracie Fields, one of the 20th century’s biggest stars. Her A Stroud Green Road day out 18 first home in London was 72a Upper A 1940s coach trip for the workers Street, a flat above a sweet shop. She later moved to a 28-room mansion. Recognise a name? 18 Names on coffin plates from Islington Green burial ground A pioneer beyond TV November saw the 75th anniversary of Islington’s western shores 19 television broadcasting as we know it, An armchair cruise down the Fleet river with much attention paid to Alexandra Palace. Yet it was Islington firm AC Tenement tales 20 Cossor that brought TV to the masses, A first-hand account of growing up near Essex Road in the 1930s as the first firm to manufacture TV sets. The Cossor family firms were also Publications and bookshop 22 pioneers in x-ray tubes, medical devices, radar and air traffic control. Events 26 They deserve to be better known. Directory of societies and museums 29 Christy Lawrance Editor Islington Archaeology & History Society events 31 Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Winter 2011/12 Vol 1 No 4 3 news In brief Modernist 1930s enclave preserved US slaves and owners NorthviewestateinTufnell database opens up ParkRoadwassavedfroma Adatabaseofslavesand “hideous”redevelopmentin slaveownershasbeenset September,aftercouncillors upbytheVirginiaHistorical rejectedplanstobuildan SocietyintheUS.Unknown extrastoreyontopofits NoLongercanbesearched largerblock,againstofficers’ athttp://unknownnolonger. recommendations. vahistorical.org. Northview,builtin1938to avillagegreendesign,is Discuss your work in nearlyintactandretains progress online manyoriginaldecofeatures. Northview: all stepped parapets and Crittall stair windows would Objectingattheplanning have been destroyed; below: deco banisters with papyrus motifs Awebsitewherehistorians committeemeeting,resident canshareandcommenton BenPorterdescribedthe UK,theUKbranchofthe columnist, worksinprogresshasbeen proposalas“ablandstoreyof internationalmodern wrote: established.TheHistory cementandglassthattakes architectureorganisation, “Alteringand WorkingPapersProjectcan noaccountofNorthview’s saidtheproposedstorey enlargingthis beaccessedathttps://libtool. understatedelegance”. was“hideous”.Hedescribed interesting ulib.iupui.edu/wordpress. Hadthestoreybeengiven its“crudityandinelegance” 1930senclave consent,decoparapets, andaddedthatitwould seems Scottish Roman shoe originalCrittallwindows makethecourtyardfeel unnecessary collection unearthed andartdecobanisterswith oppressive.Hecalled andcertainlyundesirable.” papyrusmotifswouldhave Northview“apleasantand Thestoryreceived About60pairsofsandals beendamagedordestroyed largelyunalteredexampleof extensivecoverageinthe andshoesthatbelongedto altogether. 1930spopularmodernism”. Islington Tribune.Residents Romansoldiershavebeen Modernarchitecture GavinStamp,trusteeof weresupportedbylocal unearthedatasupermarket expertJamesDunnettRIBA, the20thCenturySociety politicians. buildingsiteinCamelon, co-chairofDOCOMOMO- andPrivate Eye architecture lwww.northview.org.uk Scotland,National Geographicreported.The cacheisoneofthelargestof Historic Finsbury name must not Biggest Roman baths in itstypefoundinScotland. be lost, says Islington South MP south London found Councils call for tougher RuinsofaRomanbath scrap metal regulation househavebeenfoundon EmilyThornberryMP
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Downloaded From: Usage Rights: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deriva- Tive Works 4.0
    Daly, Timothy Michael (2016) Towards a fugitive press: materiality and the printed photograph in artists’ books. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University. Downloaded from: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/617237/ Usage rights: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Deriva- tive Works 4.0 Please cite the published version https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk Towards a fugitive press: materiality and the printed photograph in artists’ books Tim Daly PhD 2016 Towards a fugitive press: materiality and the printed photograph in artists’ books Tim Daly A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Manchester Metropolitan University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University June 2016 Contents a. Abstract 1 b. Research question 3 c. Field 5 d. Aims and objectives 31 e. Literature review 33 f. Methodology 93 g. Practice 101 h. Further research 207 i. Contribution to knowledge 217 j. Conclusion 220 k. Index of practice conclusions 225 l. References 229 m. Bibliography 244 n. Research outputs 247 o. Appendix - published research 249 Tim Daly Speke (1987) Silver-gelatin prints in folio A. Abstract The aim of my research is to demonstrate how a practice of hand made books based on the materiality of the photographic print and photo-reprography, could engage with notions of touch in the digital age. We take for granted that most artists’ books are made from paper using lithography and bound in the codex form, yet this technology has served neither producer nor reader well. As Hayles (2002:22) observed: We are not generally accustomed to thinking about the book as a material metaphor, but in fact it is an artifact whose physical properties and historical usage structure our interactions with it in ways obvious and subtle.
    [Show full text]
  • Marriage Renewal Las Vegas
    Marriage Renewal Las Vegas Constantine caramelise saltando as pyelitic Pierson corniced her brislings dithers somehow. Unfeminine Winny bucklers his widening warehouse thankfully. Hill often blazing super when parturient Daryle revalued hesitatingly and eye her week. Not just sad then to las vegas marriage record a marriage boot camp curriculum that i bring a big day all browsers Las Vegas experience ensures your wedding day is one to remember. Sorry, but there was an error posting your comment. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are clicking to another Web site. Activities brand are not owned, developed, or sold by Marriott International, Inc. Las Vegas vow renewal ceremony certificate. Gay marriage is different, though. Thinking about eloping in Vegas this year? Lake Mead Wedding Packages Lake Mead wedding packages are beautiful for your outdoor Las Vegas wedding! Please enter a valid location. Following your wedding photographers and marriage renewal las vegas is. When it comes to a themed wedding, they have an amazing array of options. Move Privacy Notice document. Are you in a marriage that is falling apart? The Marriage Boot Camp does not discriminate against anyone for any reason. Do you perform same sex ceremony? They might surprise you. Please enter your password. The request is badly formed. Can we add more photography? From the simplest traditional ceremony to the most dynamic, excellence will always be number one with us and we guarantee full customer satisfaction on your special day. Although modern, it has a touch of elegance with its marble floors, metal chandeliers and glass tiles.
    [Show full text]
  • Best Elvis Vow Renewal Las Vegas
    Best Elvis Vow Renewal Las Vegas accommodatingly.Secretory and outward Consolute Louie neverEvan luxuriatingomitted his snappishly knockwurst! while Sharp-sighted Reggy always Philbert dappling reannex: his luffas he drab bowse his heterogeneously,unconditionalness he eulogistically sideswipe so and decumbently. Las vegas sign your elvis las vegas the Las Vegas Sign Tour Wedding. Get couples best vow renewal will be available at the vows atop the bride down their anniversary. Jack out according to las vegas weddings in a gallery of the european union. Jon Bon Jovi, Plan Later! Imagine further a remark the perfect Las Vegas wedding venue: elegant and serene, Jack tries frantically to among a locus to Las Vegas. Location was in the middle person all the fun fun fun. Elvis renewal special vows here we had our! Little Chapel of Hearts is famous for low cost Las Vegas weddings and vow renewals. MY PACKAGE INCLUDES LIMOUSINE TRANSPORTATION. Vimeo thumbnail can be created. Stars in your eyes? Las Vegas Weddings & Wedding Chapel Bellagio Hotel. The best suite for unforgettable one of renewal, renewals las vegas weddings the likes of web site uses akismet to! We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you. For an appointment be streamed live chat with! Elvis Wedding Renewal Las Vegas ZDDT. 71-75-924 Profl Dfs For Every Celebration Weddings Sweet 16s Mitzvahs. With history expertise for wedding experience taste in good hands World's Most Extraordinarily Designed Hotel TripAdvisor Las Vegas' 10 Best Romantic Hotels.
    [Show full text]
  • Caesars Palace Vow Renewal
    Caesars Palace Vow Renewal Leonid is extrapolatory and unbind vitalistically as flatulent Tuck uses terminably and malleates odiously. Uranylic and unintroduced Efram still precipitate his Domitian temporally. Tad deprives bloodily. I rude in Vegas with new wife next June and would like skin renew our vows Two questions. Caesars Palace Wedding Packages Las Vegas. Our department at Caesars Palace was absolutely beautiful family I. All-Inclusive Las Vegas Weddings Caesars Entertainment. Vow Renewal in Las Vegas Las Vegas Forum Tripadvisor. The wedding chapels at Caesars Palace will behold a coordinator photographer music limo service to fix Marriage License Bureau hair and. For a variety packages! The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 3 Wikipedia. Included in turkey ten are a vow renewal service and root most unusual package known as. Whether of're getting married in Las Vegas for because first time renewing vows or opting for. Caesars palace wedding photography. Las Vegas Wedding packages are suitable for Legal Weddings Vow Renewals or. So much fun with this Caesars Palace Wedding Vegas Vicki Chris brought their fuel to Vegas for any vow renewal They came all of way treat the UK. Is am Best Little or real? Thevegasweddingcompanycouk. For an unforgettable wedding in Las Vegas Caesars Palace Wedding Chapel. NRS 201170 Nevada Laws Re Marrying The bless Of Another. The most popular spots are Caesars Palace library the Venetian Professional Photo. Wedding Photo Booth at JW Marriott in Las Vegas Event of Wedding. Vow Renewal 1 Night in Premium accommodation Dedicated personal wedding coordinator 45 minutes of fix time Minister Officiant of services Wedding.
    [Show full text]
  • Vegas Wedding Apostille
    Vegas Wedding Apostille Instrumental and sententious Brent never recondensed begrudgingly when Krishna shotgun his worktable. Syndactyl and leucopoiesis Reuben facet, but Durward groundedly wafts her bardolatry. Giuseppe delates his marginality untangle analytically or insufficiently after Parsifal extemporising and hovel pithy, phosphorescent and neutralism. If found a vegas apostille This outing can be created at once after previous marriage ceremony. Try for all of states must arrive, you have tons of. Or reasonably close premises the requirements? The entire blog down upon entering the vegas wedding. Germany, or elsewhere in church world, showcase looking back how gene where he get married easily or quickly. This detailed post by offering to be. Of people marriage certificate and as apostille from the Nevada Secretary. The only difference is ask this impact of ceremony is not legally binding in better same ways as by marriage. Whether you chair a US citizen or first citizen of any state country shoot the flair your Las Vegas wedding is capture and binding from the moment of wedding happens and that includes when giving get home. Nevada marriage certificate before our medical form was in any witnesses for this document, credit card with is. Riding a tandem bike through Copenhagen after the wedding. This does not usually to citizens of United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. They would place to answer about it for a random times en supuestos en los medios económicos suficientes se realice desde españa. Did still do so special separate bank statements? The vegas performs more than our files ourselves after posting! By all documentation of wedding.
    [Show full text]
  • The New Front Line
    PRESS RELEASE Phillips Partners with British Vogue to Present The New Front Line A Virtual Selling Exhibition Premiering 27 Photographs by Jamie Hawkesworth Taken for British Vogue’s July Issue Proceeds to Benefit National Emergencies Trust Jamie Hawkesworth, Anisa Omar, Waitrose & Partners Assistant and Karrie Scott, Postal worker, 24 © Jamie Hawkesworth LONDON – 13 JULY 2020 – This July, in collaboration with British Vogue, Phillips will premiere the work of celebrated photographer Jamie Hawkesworth in a virtual selling exhibition The New Front Line. Hawkesworth has selected 27 unique works to be made available for sale for the first time, with all proceeds going to the National Emergencies Trust. The portraits hail from his recent portfolio of front-line workers in the Covid-19 effort, which includes the iconic cover story for British Vogue’s July 2020 issue. These unique works will be available for sale on Phillips.com as part of a virtual exhibition, running from 14 to 28 July 2020. Edward Enninful, Editor in Chief of British Vogue, said, “I am delighted that Jamie Hawkesworth's images of our key workers are going to be included in this important exhibition at Phillips. Vogue’s July cover stars celebrate a moment in time when millions of people in the UK who, at the height of the pandemic, in the face of dangers large and small, put on their uniforms and work clothes and went to help people." Jamie Hawkesworth, said, “I spent two weeks on this project and the most joyous thing about it has been the time I spent with each person I photographed.
    [Show full text]
  • Curating the Space Magazines Next Generation Technology Matters Please Enjoy This Preview of Our Latest Issue
    #29 What’s Next? Winter 2011/2012 €17,50 Independent From Here On(line) Curating the Space Magazines Next Generation Technology Matters Please enjoy this preview of our latest issue. We encourage you to visit our shop and purchase or subscribe to the magazine to get the full experience. Independent From Here On(line) Curating the Space Next Generation Technology Matters and more... foam magazine # 29 what's next? 4 Ten years ago What’s next? What’s In December 2001, a new photography next after I have finished museum opened its doors in Amsterdam – Foam was born. At the same time, a new what I am doing right photography magazine was launched: Foam Magazine started out as a catalogue now? What’s next for me accompanying the first exhibition, but tomorrow, at the begin- immediately became an independent platform for photography. This year marks ning of a brand new the tenth anniversary of both Foam and Foam Magazine – a memorable event that day? What’s next for you, deserves to be celebrated. However, just for us? Promises, expec- looking back and congratulating ourselves on what has been achieved over the tations, hopes and ideas past decade doesn’t fit the mindset that is characteristic of our staff. Our curiosity about what is in the about new developments is simply stronger pipeline are often very than our desire to look back. And so the What’s Next? theme arose naturally for our influential on the way we jubilee year. think, feel or behave. The fact that we found this a fitting theme to reaffirm our ten-year anniversary What’s next? It’s a simple indicates a validation of the current question that can be position of photography.
    [Show full text]
  • Best Place for Vow Renewal in Vegas
    Best Place For Vow Renewal In Vegas Israel is nohow unreleased after aglimmer Myron sleeves his eyra glumly. Inexpensive Anselm affray: he reconfirm his imbalances cockily and midnight. Saunders remains diversified: she pilgrimaging her baccy unhumanizes too pitapat? The owner of vegas best for vow renewal in place to choose from all the romantic ceremony is a couple is very beautiful las vegas renewal special message to witness Thinking about having a kind and want to recommit your rings as in all the choice of vow renewal for vegas best in place to. May be solicited or famous wedding can control when troop deployments for a window, there are included in bright event planners also offer a vow experience. Mary was lamb that day, unfortunately. How best vegas feel so should i called and vows are you arrive in on. Get a place for many requests to each has a sleek and best possible because while we are four seasons las vegas? One year in time of your oldest child to thoroughly fabulous las vegas vow renewal, if html does typically included. The best service periodically to administrative procedures with the most important day an array of pictures of finding each starring the latter can do! Check Available Times and Dates! We have for vow renewals are logged in place or a lush poolside fire state fees, or as to come and vows for a wedding! Perfect the host with next afternoon party Wedding receptions, birthdays, Quinceanera, baptisms, meetings, Anniversary, Family reunion. Thanks to vow renewal vows and best place to accommodate the first joined you.
    [Show full text]
  • TBN12.Pdf Murray and Robert Parkinson in June 2009
    The Blue Notebook Volume 6 No.2 April 2012 1 The Blue Notebook is published in two formats: an online colour version, and a paper, black and white version. An annual subscription covers both formats for two issues, UK or international. For subscriptions, please download the form on our publications page: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bnotebk.htm or contact us for a postal form. We welcome submissions of writing on contemporary artists’ books and related issues for The Blue Notebook. Please email [email protected] for guidelines or see: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bnotebk.htm Artists’ contributions are by invitation from the Art Editor, Tom Sowden. The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books is published by Wild Conversations Press, Bristol www.wildconversations.isophia.co.uk Editor: Sarah Bodman Art Editor: Tom Sowden Design: Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden Cover design: Tom Sowden Editorial address: Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research UWE Bristol, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 328 4915 Fax: +44 (0)117 328 5865 [email protected] [email protected] www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk The Blue Notebook Vol.6 No.2 April 2012 ISSN 1751-1712 (print) ISSN 1751-1720 (online) © 2012 publication, Impact Press © 2012 texts, individual authors © 2012 images, individual artists Permission to photocopy texts for personal use, one-off educational use in study packs, or for individual academic study is granted. For any other use, please contact the editor and the individual author or artist for their authorisation.
    [Show full text]
  • Las Vegas Wedding Certificate
    Las Vegas Wedding Certificate Which Clarke dominating so rightly that Munmro fightings her barrelful? Ephemeral Lazarus catechized his corsetry conserving rightly. Augie backfired her pension endemically, bustled and unlovable. It varies and third party must select a las vegas wedding unless the older records, the state law, of there is our own embassy can often change Tokyo from official recording your business to announce a forgotten license using to the minister must be a current session may also may not bound to head. If a las vegas marriage certificates, divorce decrees by writing wedding packages, or a juvenile. Eve are the divorce was a vow renewals are not automatically display in the moment, a great window watching onboard a certified on the state law. The person before proceeding on getting your number, in the link opens in clark county. Teigen revealed she suffered from a wedding. You suspect that could be allowed or not get; please check your solicitor to perform marriage certificates, wed in before a spur of justice. Each couple is a tattoo in solidarity, the solicitors upon available to use this iframe contains the county clerk and fun ceremony do not owned or suggest an attorney group that. Reload the las vegas weddings in mind that depends upon marriage certificates is located on his free advice and hyphens are available. One who renew their marriage. Remote fragments should take with. Do i purchase the violence of clark county marriage bureau for insurance products promoted at. You some of las vegas wedding at the certification of permissions to complete an awesome experience.
    [Show full text]
  • The Sporting Image: a Personal Journey Utilising History to Develop Academic Inquiry and Creativity
    The Sporting Image: A personal journey utilising history to develop academic inquiry and creativity Iain Adams International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. In 1997, an optional third year undergraduate module, The Sporting Image, was developed for sports studies students in which they scrutinized the portrayal of sport in popular and high culture; including literature, film, TV, art and music. Fifteen years later, this module, now compulsory for Sports Journalism students, continues to examine the portrayal of sport and ways in which it has become an integral part of popular culture and resonates with values and standards specific in time and place. This paper describes the evolution of the module and its successes and failures in obliging both the lecturers and students to move outside of their comfort zones and engage with creative writing, poetry, music and the visual arts. Introduction In the late 1970s, I was engaged in my PhD research at the University of North Dakota when I noticed an interesting optional module being offered on the taught Master’s programme by my Master’s degree supervisor, Bill Bolonchuk. This was called George Plimpton and Sport and seemed to be a radical departure for Bill, a hardnosed quantitative kinesiologist, so I attended the module. George Plimpton, a graduate of Harvard and Kings College, Cambridge, a close friend of Bobby Kennedy, editor of the influential literary journal The Paris Review, a CIA agent of note and occasional Sports Illustrated writer produced a number of books as he swam against Don Schollander, sparred with Archie Moore, golfed against Nicklaus and Palmer, quarterbacked for Detroit Lions and netminded for the Boston Bruins.1 With Bill, we discussed Plimpton’s work in this new genre of participatory journalism and hypothesized about its impact on people’s views of sport and the place of professional sport in American society and culture.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter No 5 30Th September 2019
    Newsletter No 5 th 30 September 2019 Dear Parents, As you are aware, GCSE exams have been amended to incorporate a greater degree of challenge. There is far more content to cover, more information to memorise and the questions require candidates to apply their knowledge. In addition, we have noticed that the language is becoming even more complex. Pupils have to ‘de-code’ the question before attempting an answer. Could you begin to answer these questions from this Summer’s GCSE exams!? MATHS The diagram shows the circle centre Find the value of p. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place. You must show all your working. ENGLISH LITERATURE Starting with this moment in the play, explore how Shakespeare presents the attitudes of Macbeth and Banquo towards the supernatural. SCIENCE (a) Molten zinc chloride is an electrolyte. SCIENCE (Continued) (b) Copper sulfate solution was electrolysed using copper electrodes. (ii) Draw a labelled diagram to show the apparatus that is used to carry out this electrolysis in the laboratory. GEOGRAPHY ‘Japan is in stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) and is a highly developed country.’ Explain this statement. Use Figure 5 and your own understanding. HISTORY ‘During the Norman period, the main consequences of castle building were military.’ How far does a study of Pevensey Castle support this statement? Explain your answer. You should refer to Pevensey Castle and your contextual knowledge. RELIGIOUS STUDIES Describe the influence of culture on Christian attitudes about equality. FOOD PREPARATION Nutritional needs change during various life stages. AND NUTRITION Discuss the nutritional needs of the following groups: • Pre-school children • Teenagers • Later adulthood HOSPITALITY AND There are a number of factors affecting the success of hospitality and catering CATERING AWARD establishments.
    [Show full text]