The Encyclopaedia of Oxford is an encyclopaedia covering the history of the university city of Oxford in England . The book was published by Macmillan Publishers Macmillan in 1988 ISBN 0 333 39917 X . It was edited by the University of Oxford Oxford educated historian Christopher Hibbert with the help of the associated editor Edward Hibbert author Edward Hibbert . The encyclopaedia was published in hardback and then a paperback version Papermac , reissued in 1992, ISBN 0 333 48614 5 , but only one edition was produced and copies are now sought after, typically selling for more that the original selling price of 25 for the hardbook edition, even in paperback form. ref cite web url http www.amazon.co.uk Encyclopaedia Oxford Christopher Hibbert dp 0333486145 title The Encyclopaedia of Oxford Paperback publisher Amazon.co.uk accessdate January 14, 2012 ref ref cite web url http www.abebooks.co.uk 9780333486146 Encyclopaedia Oxford Hibbert Christopher Edward 0333486145 plp title The Encyclopaedia of Oxford publisher Abe Books accessdate January 14, 2012 ref The book mainly consists of detailed historical entries in alphabetical order. Many entries concern the University of Oxford and its colleges. Appendices include lists of notable people who have held important offices associated with Oxford, especially the University, in date order. See also The London Encyclopaedia , also edited by Christopher Hibbert References reflist DEFAULTSORT Encyclopaedia of Oxford Category 1988 books Category British encyclopedias Category Encyclopedias on history Category History books about England Category History of Oxford Category History of the University of Oxford encyclopedia stub ... more details
Karen Gershon , born Kaethe Loewenthal 1923 &ndash 1993 was a Germany German born United Kingdom British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938. Her book We came as Children A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account. ref J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4 ref One of her best known poems, I was not there , describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazi s. Works UK Poetry THE RELENTLESS YEAR New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960 SELECTED POEMS Gollancz 1966 LEGACIES AND ENCOUNTERS Gollancz 1972 MY DAUGHTERS, MY SISTERS Gollancz 1975 COMING BACK FROM BABYLON Gollancz 1979 COLLECTED POEMS Macmillan, Papermac 1990 GRACE NOTES with drawings by Stella Tripp , Happy Dragons Press, 2002 Non Fiction WE CAME AS CHILDREN London, Gollancz 1966, republished Macmillan, Papermac 1989 POSTSCRIPT A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War Gollancz 1969 A LESSER CHILD Autobiography, Vol.1 Peter Owen 1993 Fiction BURN HELEN Harvester Press 1980 THE BREAD OF EXILE Gollancz 1985 THE FIFTH GENERATION Gollancz 1987 U.S.A. WE CAME AS CHILDREN Harcourt Brace & World 1967 SELECTED POEMS Harcourt Brace & World 1967 A TEMPERED WIND Autobiography, Vol.2, 1938 1943 Northwestern University Press 2009 Germany WIR KAMEN ALS KINDER Alibaba Verlag 1988 DIE F NFTE GENERATION Alibaba Verlag 1988 DAS UNTERKIND Rowohlt 1992 MICH NUR ZU TR STEN BESTIMMT Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000 External links Shmuel Huppert, http jwa.org encyclopedia article gershon karen Biography of Karen Gershon , Jewish Women s Archive http www.stella.tripp.btinternet.co.uk sj tripp.html Website of Stella Tripp , daughter of Karen Gershon, executor of literary estate of Karen Gershon http www.naomis books.com Website of Naomi Shmuel , daughter of Karen Gershon, site contains further information about Karen Gershon Sources Peter Lawson 2006 Anglo Jewish ... more details
infobox UK place country England map type Greater London region London population official name Paddington Green latitude 51.52040 longitude 0.17525 london borough Westminster constituency westminster Westminster UK Parliament constituency Westminster post town LONDON postcode district W2 postcode area W2 dial code 020 static image name Paddington Green, London sign.jpg File Paddington Green, London showing view to Westway.jpg thumb left Paddington Green conservation area, showing view to Westway Paddington Green conservation area is a green space and geographic location in Westminster located off Edgware Road and adjacent to Westway London Westway . It is the oldest part of Paddington and became a separate conservation area in 1988, having previously formed part of Maida Vale conservation area. ref http www.westminster.gov.uk services environment planning conservationlistedbuildings areaprofiles paddingtongreen ref At one time, the Green was surrounded by large Georgian houses, but now only two remain on the west side of the Green. ref Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopaedia , Papermac, 1987, p. 573 ref History and notable buildings Paddington Green contains part of the ancient Paddington and Lilestone villages and became fashionable at the end of the 18th century because of its village setting and proximity to the West End of London . ref http www.westminster.gov.uk services environment planning conservationlistedbuildings areaprofiles paddingtongreen ref An omnibus service to the City of London was introduced in 1829 by George Shillibeer . ref Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopaedia , Papermac, 1987, p. 574 ref St Mary on Paddington Green is part of the Parish of Little Venice and is the third church on this site. The church was built in 1791 by John Plaw . ref http www.gov.pe.ca hpo index.php3?number 1019796 ref Its graveyard known as St Mary s Gardens or St Mary s Churchyard contains monuments to notable lo ... more details
for Canadian operations in East Timor Operation Toucan East Timor Operation TOUCAN was a KGB Intelligence Directorate DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet . According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin , the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov . The plot s twofold task was to organize sympathetic human rights activists to pressure the United Nations and generate negative press for the Pinochet regime. In 1976, the start of TOUCAN, the New York Times published 66 articles on Chile s human rights record and four on Cambodia s Khmer Rouge and only 3 such articles on the human rights situation in Cuba. As part of operation TOUCAN, the KGB also forged a letter tying the CIA to an assassination campaign by Chile s Direcci n de Inteligencia Nacional DINA and many journalists, including columnist Jack Anderson columnist Jack Anderson of the New York Times , used this information in their news stories as evidence of the CIA s involvement in the more nefarious parts of Operation Condor . References Andrew, Christopher Mitrokhin, Vasili. The World Was Going Our Way The KGB and the Battle for the Third World . Basic Books 2005 Horne, Alistair. Small Earthquake in Chile A Visit to Allende s South America . Papermac 1990 Billingsley, Lloyd. http www.frontpagemag.com Articles ReadArticle.asp?ID 21008 Chili con Commies . Frontpage Magazine 24 January 2006 . history stub Category Cold War history of Chile Toucan, Operation Category Operation Condor Category Soviet Union intelligence operations Category Cuba Soviet Union relations es Operaci n Tuc n KGB ru uk ... more details
Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins , Order of the Bath GCB , Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC 1880 1955 was a British civil servant . Born in 1880 to businessman Alfred Nind Hopkins and Eliza Mary Castle, Hopkins was educated at King Edward s School, Birmingham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge . ref Venn id HPKS899RV name Hopkins, Richard Valentine Nind ref First serving with the Board of Inland Revenue , Hoppy was appointed chairman in 1922. In 1927 Hopkins was transferred to the Treasury, where he became the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in 1942 and served in that position until 1945. He is credited with the re introduction of economist John Maynard Keynes in the Treasury during the Second World War , whose influence proved to be essential in many economic policy decisions Middleton 2004 . References reflist div class references small Roger Middleton, Hopkins, Sir Richard Valentine Nind 1880 1955 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 nowiki http www.oxforddnb.com view article 33979 nowiki , accessed 24 Feb 2008 John Maynard Keynes Fighting for Britain 1937 1946 published in the United States as Fighting for Freedom , Robert Skidelsky, Papermac, 2001, ISBN 0 333 77971 1 US Edition ISBN 0 14 200167 8 div Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hopkins, Sir Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1880 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1955 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hopkins, Sir Richard Category 1880 births Category 1955 deaths Category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category Permanent Secretaries of HM Treasury Category Chairmen of the Board of Inland Revenue UK gov bio stub ... more details
Infobox Book name Seeds of Change author Henry Hobhouse author Henry Hobhouse country United Kingdom language English language English subject Human history, Plants publisher Sidgwick & Jackson 1st edition , Papermac 2nd edition release date 1985 1st edition , 1999 2nd edition media type Paperback pages 381 pages 2nd edition, paperback isbn ISBN 0 333 73628 1 2nd edition, paperback oclc 40753070 Seeds of Change Five plants that transformed mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse, formerly a journalist for The Economist , News Chronicle , Daily Express , and the Wall Street Journal , consultant to the Quincentenary of Columbus Exhibition , Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC , and Chairman of the Rerstmoceux Science Centre . Seeds of change attempts to give an insight on how mankind s discovery, usage and trade of sugar , tea , cotton , the potato , and quinine have influenced history to make the world that we know. In the second edition of the book, Seeds of Change Six plants that transformed mankind , he adds the coca plant to the list. External links http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc articles PMC1139966 Seeds of change. Five plants that transformed mankind References Preface to the book Category 1985 books Category Theories of history Category History of agriculture Category Eurasian history Category Books about economic history Category Popular science books Category World history Category Agriculture books Category History books about agriculture Category Books about the history of science Category 20th century history books ... more details
moresources date May 2010 File Sarajevo Begova Mosque 1900.jpg thumb Gazi Husrev beg s mosque in Sarajevo File Turbe Gazi Husrev bega.jpg thumb T rbe of Gazi Husrev beg in Sarajevo Gazi Husrev beg Ottoman language Ottoman Ghazi warriors u Gh u z Khosrau u Kh u u row Bey Beg Turkish language Modern Turkish Gazi H srev Bey 1480 1541 was a Bosniak bey in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century. He was an effective military strategy strategist , and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina . Biography He was born in Serres, Greece , to a Bosniaks Bosniak father convert from Trebinje region ref cite book title Bosnia a Short History last Malcolm first Noel authorlink Noel Malcolm year 1996 publisher Papermac location London isbn 0 333 66215 6 page 67 ref and a Turks Turkish mother, who was the daughter of the Sultan. Thus, Gazi Husrev Beg was Sultan Beyazid II s grandson. A brilliant strategist and politician, in 1521 he became the governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia . In less than 3 years, Gazi Husrev Beg conquered the fortresses of Knin , Skradin , and Ostrovica, Croatia Ostrovica . With such results, he was appointed the governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia on September 15, 1521, becoming one of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I s most trusted men. What followed was a relentless campaign of conquest. The fortified towns of Greben, Sokol, Jezero, Vinac, Vrba ki Grad, Liva , Kamatin, Bo ac, Udbina , Vrana , Modru , and Po ega, Croatia Po ega all fell at the hands of Gazi Husrev Beg. Gazi Husrev beg also founded the waqf vakuf , which was active until the 20th century. ref cite book title Bosnia a Short History last Malcolm first Noel authorlink Noel Malcolm year 1996 publisher Papermac location London isbn 0 333 66215 6 page 68 ref Gazi Husrev beg and his forces were struggling against a power vacuum in Montenegro after the death of his ally Skanderbeg Crnojevi in 1528. in 1541 during ... more details
File St Mary on Paddington Green Church side entrance.jpg thumb right St Mary on Paddington Green St Mary on Paddington Green is an Anglican church in the Parish of Maida Vale Little Venice , London and forms part of Paddington Green conservation area . It stands on the junction of Edgware Road and Harrow Road , overlooking Westway London Westway . ref http www.achurchnearyou.com st mary on paddington greenstmarypaddington ref It is the third church on the site once forming a centrepiece of the ancient Paddington and Lilestone villages. John Donne preached his first sermon in the original church, while William Hogarth was married in the second. ref Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopaedia, Papermac, 1987, p. 743 ref File St Mary on Paddington Green with grounds.jpg thumb left View to church from Paddington Green conservation area Paddington Green The current church is Georgian architecture Georgian and was commissioned in 1788 and consecrated in 1791. Designed by John Plaw architect John Plaw , and with a floorplan in the shape of a Greek Cross , it is built in yellow brick and dressed with white stone. It is Plaw s only confirmed surviving building in the UK, apart from Belle Isle Windermere Belle Isle on Windermere . ref http www.parishoflittlevenice.com ref A further building in Romford , known as The Round House, has been atrributed to the architect. ref http www.londonopenhouse.org public london find detail.asp?loh id 3499&postcode RM4 201QH&period period&building type&wheelchair &architect &resident &activities &name round 20house&greenbuild &advanced false ref John Plaw later worked in Southampton before emigrating to Canada , where he designed several public and private buildings. ref http www.gov.pe.ca hpo index.php3?number 1019796 ref The church was substantially altered in the 19th century, but was restored by architect Raymond Erith in the early 1970s. ref Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopaedia, Papermac, 1987, ... more details
of France, 3rd edition Papermac 1986 ref Six centuries later, the field next to the abbey was bought ... and vineyards of France, 3rd edition Papermac 1986 ref ref name Johnson pg 269 270 H. Johnson ... more details
File Frith Street London on a July morning.jpg thumb Frith Street facing south early on a July morning Image Ronnie.scott.london.arp.jpg thumb Ronnie Scott s Jazz Club at 47 Frith Street. Frith Street is in the Soho area of London , England. To the north is Soho Square and to the south is Shaftesbury Avenue . The street crosses Old Compton Street , Bateman Street and Romilly Street. History Frith Street was built in the years around 1680, and was apparently named after a wealthy builder named Richard Frith. ref name TLE cite book last Weinreb first Ben authorlink last2 Hibbert first2 Christopher author2 link Christopher Hibbert title The London Encyclopaedia publisher Papermac location London date 1993 edition revised pages 303 304 isbn 0 333 57688 8 ref In the 18th and early 19th centuries many artistic and literary people came to live in Soho and several settled in this street. The painter s Gresse, John Alexander DNB00 John Alexander Gresse was here in 1784, the year of his death. John Horne Tooke , philologist and politician, lived here in about 1804 John Constable lived here 1810 11 John Bell sculptor John Bell , the sculptor, in 1832 33 and William Hazlitt wrote his last essays while he was lodging at No. 6 Frith Street prior to his death there in 1830. ref name TLE The Lithography lithographic artist Alfred Concanen had a studio at No. 12 for many years. ref name Irish Irons, Neville Alfred Concanen, Master Lithographer Irish Arts Review Vol. 4, No. 3 Autumn 1987 pgs 37 41 ref Samuel Romilly , the legal reformer, was born at No. 18 in 1757, and the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lodged at No. 20 with his father and sister in 1764 65. In 1816 the actor William Charles Macready was living at No. 64, and over a hundred years later, from 1924 to 1926 John Logie Baird lived at No. 22 where on 26 January 1926 he demonstrated television to members of the Royal Institution . ref name TLE In 1989 Frith Street Gallery was founded here, orig ... more details
For the character in Kurt Vonnegut s novel Bluebeard novel Dan Gregory was an United States American pianist and bandleader , mainly working in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from the 1920s through the 1940s. However, the band also appeared in New York City during the early 1920s. According to Ken Frew, the son of Kenneth Kenny Frew 1902 1986 , a later member of Gregory s orchestra, the band s New York residence was the Crystal Palace at 66th and Broadway New York City Broadway . ref name A Harmony With Our Souls 2005 page 15 Michael Barton editor To A Harmony With Our Souls, A History of Jazz in Central Pennsylvania Benchmark Group Media, 2005 , page 15 article written by Ken Frew ref During its New York years Gregory s band made a handful of records, first for lesser labels such as Oriole Records U.S. Oriole , Puritan Records Puritan , Grey Gull Records Grey Gull and Cameo Records Cameo but also two sides for the major label Victor Records Victor Me And The Boy Friend and Then You ll Know That You re In Love issued on Victor 19519 and 19554 respectively . ref Brian Rust The American Dance Band Discography1917 1942 Arlington House 1975 , page 680. ref One of the members of Gregory s orchestra during its New York tenure was multi instrumentalist Andy Sannella , though it is not known whether he appeared on any of the bands recordings. ref John Chilton Who s Who of Jazz 5th edition, Papermac, 1989 , page 291. ref Gregory finally according to Frew decided to get rid of his high priced men and move back to Harrisburg and organize a new band which went on working through the following two decades. ref Michael Barton editor To A Harmony With Our Souls, A History of Jazz in Central Pennsylvania Benchmark Group Media, 2005 , page 13. ref The band however also travelled to venues outside its home town and among other places it played at the Bertrand Island amusement park, where it appeared as Dan Gregory s Famous Dance Orchestra with comedian Clem Fat Gority in 1934. ref http boo ... more details
Mary Ann Buzz Goodbody 1946 &ndash 1975 ref name Uglow Jennifer Uglow, et al The Macmillan Dictionary of Women s Biography , London Macmillan Papermac, 1999, p.232 ref was an English people English theatre director . She was educated at Roedean School Roedean and the University of Sussex . A product of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Goodbody regarded herself as a radical and a revolutionary who was involved in the feminist movement. ref Smith Howard, pp 17 18 ref She was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain . ref name Uglow Very early in her theatrical career, she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky s Notes from Underground Notes from the Underground . This production won an award at the National Student Drama Festival and eventually transferred to the West End. ref cite book last Trowbridge first Simon title Stratfordians A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company year 2008 publisher Editions Albert Creed location Oxford, England ref As a result of her success, in 1973 she was offered a position with the Royal Shakespeare Company , where she was signed up as an assistant to Trevor Nunn for his season of Shakespeare s Roman plays. She became an associate director, in charge of the Company s The Other Place studio theatre, in the following year. ref name Aston2004 She thus became the first ever female director to work at the RSC. ref Sheila Rowbotham A Century of Women , p.408 ref Her productions in Stratford upon Avon Stratford The Life and Death of King John King John , Trevor Griffiths Occupations were noted for their radical content. In 1974, Goodbody played an instrumental role in establishing The Other Place. It was put forth as an alternative to the traditional Royal Shakespeare Theatre and became highly regarded for its challenging versions of canonical plays. At The Other Place, Goodbody staged King Lear 1974 and Hamlet 1975 . Of the latter, The Times theatre critic Irving Wardle wrote an astounding revelation of th ... more details
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