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Cathy Galvin
Cathy Galvin (born 14 December 1959) is a British poet and journalist. She has published three poetry collections and is co-founder of the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her journalism has appeared in the ''Financial Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''Newsweek'', ''The Sunday Times'', and ''The Tablet'' where she is a non-executive director. Her work includes interviews with notable British writers including Will Self, Hanif Kureishi, Carol Ann Duffy, and Sebastian Faulks. Galvin is the founder and director of the Word Factory, a writing community and organisation described by ''The Guardian'' as "a national organisation supporting excellence in short fiction". She was the editor of ''Red'', an anthology of new writing published by the bookseller Waterstones. Biography Galvin was born in Coventry, England, on 14 December 1959 to parents from Ireland and Yorkshire. She obtained a BA (hons) degree in political studies from the University of Leeds in 1982. In 2015 she obta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry
Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345. The city is governed by Coventry City Council, and the West Midlands Combined Authority. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, and again from 1842 to 1974, Coventry had a population of 345,324 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 13th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap; it is the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber And Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originated in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror''. The Gwyers' desire t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Winston, Baron Winston
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour peer. Early life Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, and brought up as an Orthodox Jew. His mother was Mayor of the former Borough of Southgate. Winston's father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old. Robert has two younger siblings: a sister, the artist Willow Winston, and a brother, Anthony.Robert Winston: 'I do have a very dark side' ''The Daily Telegraph'', 15 August 2008 Winston attended firstly [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown (born 1959) is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for ''New Scientist'' magazine. Biography He graduated from the Queen Mary University of London in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in physics (first class). In 1982 he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Master of Science in astrophysics. Chown studied under Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology. His books on astronomy and physics are aimed primarily at the popular market, including ''Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You'', for which he was praised for "expressing opaque concepts with a unique clarity". Bibliography *''Double Planet'' (with John Gribbin) (novel) Victor Gollancz (1988) *''Reunion'' (with John Gribbin) (novel) Gollancz (1991) *''Afterglow of Creation: From the fireball to the discovery of cosmic ripples'' (1993) *''The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that explains everything'' (2017) *''The Magic Furn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murdoch
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch (born 13 December 1972) is an American - British businessman. He is the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the former chief executive officer (CEO) of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019. He was the chairman and CEO for Europe and Asia of News Corporation until 2013 when it was split into News Corp and 21st Century Fox. He was formerly a director of News Corp and was a member of the office of the chairman. Until April 2012, he was the chairman and CEO of Sky Group, Sky plc, Europe and Asia, where he oversaw assets such as News UK, News International (publisher of ''The News of the World'' newspaper), Sky Italia, Sky Deutschland, and Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific, STAR TV. Murdoch was executive chairman of News International from 2007. He previously held a non-executive chair at Sky UK, British Sky Broadcasting, in which News Corporation had a controlling minority stake. In April 2012, he was forced to resign as chairman of BSkyB in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Freely
Maureen Deidre Freely (born July 1952) is an American novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme, University of Warwick, since 1996. Biography Born in Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author John Freely. She has a sister, Eileen, and a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely grew up in Turkey. She graduated from Harvard College. She now lives in England. She is the mother of four children and two step-children. Her first husband was Paul Spike, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Her second husband was Frank Longstreth, with whom she had two daughters. Freely is a fourth-generation atheist. Work Freely lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent'' newspapers. From 2014 to 2021, she served as President/Chair of English PEN, the founding centre of PEN International. She was later made an Honorary Vice President. Four of her eight novels – ''The Life of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku (; ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, Science communication, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Award, Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books ''Physics of the Impossible'' (2008), ''Physics of the Future'' (2011), ''The Future of the Mind'' (2014), and The God Equation, ''The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything'' (2021) became The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Express
The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the ''Sunday Express'', was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608. Under the ownership of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the ''Express'' rose to become the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world, going from 2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. It was acquired by Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the ''Daily Express'', and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today (UK Newspaper)
''Today'' was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995. History ''Today'', with the American newspaper ''USA Today'' as an inspiration, launched on Tuesday 4 March 1986, with the front-page headline, "Second Spy Inside GCHQ". At 18p (equivalent to p in ), it was a middle-market tabloid, a rival to the long-established ''Daily Mail'' and ''Daily Express''. It pioneered computer photo-typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when national newspapers were still using Linotype machines, letterpress and could only reproduce photographs in black and white. The colour was initially crude, produced on equipment which had no facility for colour proofing, so the first view of the colour was on the finished product. However, it forced the conversion of all UK national newspapers to electronic production and colour printing. The newspaper's motto, hung in the newsroom, was "propa truth, not propaganda". Launched by regional newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge News
The ''Cambridge News'' (formerly the ''Cambridge Evening News'') is a British daily newspaper. Published each weekday and on Saturdays, it is distributed from its Milton base. In the period December 2010 – June 2011 it had an average daily circulation of 20,987, but by December 2016 this had fallen to around 13,000. In 2018, the circulation of the newspaper fell to 8,005 and by December 2024 the preceding 6-month average was 1,666. History The paper was founded by William Farrow Taylor as the ''Cambridge Daily News'' in 1888. The paper was later sold to the Iliffe family, who continued to turn the paper into a profit-making business under the new name of the ''Cambridge Evening News'', starting in 1969. In 2012, Local World acquired the title from Yattendon Group. Until 2002 the St Neots edition was titled ''St Neots Evening News'' and the Huntingdon & St Ives edition ''Huntingdon and St Ives Evening News'' for around three years, before reverting to their original names. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo
The ''Evening Post-Echo'' was a British newspaper published in Hemel Hempstead and launched in 1967. This newspaper was notable for three reasons: 1. It used the then cutting-edge technology of photo-typesetting at a time when the old ' hot metal' process was the norm. 2. It was one of the few non-national newspapers to publish six days a week. 3. It was neither national nor local, but a regional newspaper covering three counties (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire). From launch, the paper flourished and grew, attaining a circulation of over 90,000 copies per night at its peak. Background to launch Launched initially as two papers, the ''Evening Post'' and ''Evening Echo'', it was an attempt by the Thomson Organization, then Britain's biggest newspaper group, to break the Beaverbrook and Northcliffe domination of the London- Home Counties evening paper market. Two other papers – the ''Slough Evening Mail'' and the '' Reading Evening Post'' – were part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
