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Polly Pattullo
Polly Pattullo Hon. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL is a British author, journalist, editor and publisher, who co-founded in 1998 the independent publishing company Papillote Press,"Welcome to Papillote Press Papillote Press website. based in Commonwealth of Dominica, Dominica, and London, England. Her writing has appeared in such publications as ''The Guardian'', ''The Observer'', ''Caribbean Insight'', and ''Caribbean Beat'', and she is the author or editor of several books, among them ''Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean'' (1996) and ''Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica 1813–14'' (2015). Pattullo was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in 2022. Background Early years and education ...
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FRSL
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820 by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 800 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are chosen from those who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of literature, including publishers, agents, librarians, booksellers or producers. The society is a cultural tenant at London's Somerset House. The RSL is an independent charity and relies on the support of its Members, Patrons, Fellows and friends to continue its work. History The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) was founded in 1820, with the patronage of George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent", and its first president was Thomas Burgess (bishop, born 1756), Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (who was late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council For Civil Liberties
Liberty, formerly, and still formally, called the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), is an advocacy group and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, which challenges unjust laws, protects civil liberties and promotes human rights. It does this through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community. Liberty also aims to engender a "rights culture" within British society. The NCCL was founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith (later Scaffardi),Liberty , Entry in the Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organisations motivated by their convictions. During the 1950s, the NCCL campaigned for reform of the |
John Robert Lee (poet)
John Robert Lee (born 1948) is a Saint Lucian Christian poet, writer, journalist and librarian. He has been awarded the Saint Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for his contribution to the development of Saint Lucian arts and culture. In 2017, his ''Collected Poems (1975–2015)'' were published by Peepal Tree Press. Life John Robert Lee was born in Saint Lucia in 1948. The son of an Anglican father and a Catholic mother, he attended Anglican schools and a Catholic church as a child. From 1960 to 1967, he attended Saint Mary's College. Leaving the school after Sixth Form, he worked at the Royal Bank of Canada. During this time he became connected with the St. Lucia Arts Guild, a theatre company established in the years after the Second World War by the Walcott brothers and their friends and dedicated to the exploration of Caribbean identity. In 1969, he began studying a general arts degree at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados, which included English and Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Honychurch
Lennox Honychurch ( ; born 27 December 1952) is a Dominican historian and politician. He wrote 1975's '' The Dominica Story: A History of the Island'', the 1980s textbook series ''The Caribbean People'', and the 1991 travel book ''Dominica: Isle of Adventure''. Also an artist and a curator, he was largely responsible for compiling the exhibit information for The Dominica Museum in Roseau. Honychurch is the grandson of writer and politician Elma Napier. Biography Born in Portsmouth, in Saint John Parish, Dominica, Lennox Honychurch can trace his lineage in the Caribbean back to the 1790s. Honychurch attended the St. Mary's Academy secondary school.Lisa Paravisini"Dominica Times profiles Lennox Honychurch as he wins Sabga Award" ''Repeating Islands'', 20 April 2011. After publishing several works on the history of Dominica, he was awarded the Chevening Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he gained a PhD at St. Hugh's College. He read for his MPhil and PhD in Anth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Donnell
Alison Donnell is an academic, originally from the United Kingdom. She is currently Professor of Modern Literatures in English and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Bristol. Donnell was previously Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Before that, she was Head of School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading, where she also founded the research theme "Minority Identities: Rights and Representations". Donnell's primary research field is anglophone postcolonial literature,* and she has been published widely on Caribbean and Black British literature. Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender and sexual identities and the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism. Life After leaving secondary school, she was educated at UWC Atlantic College, and at the same time her parents moved to India. She obtained her bachelor's deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Cooke
Trish Cooke (born 1962) is a British playwright, actress, television presenter, scriptwriter and children's author. She was a presenter on the children's series '' Playdays''. She also wrote under the pseudonym Roselia John Baptiste. Life Cooke was born in Bradford, England. Her parents were from Dominica, part of the Windrush generation. She gained a BA degree in Performing Arts from Leeds Polytechnic, before moving to London in 1984 to pursue an acting career. She worked as a stage manager for the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) for six months, and after receiving her Equity card worked as an actor in London. In 1988, she received a Thames Television Writers Bursary and began a writing residency at the Liverpool Playhouse. Between 1988 and 1996, Cooke was a presenter and scriptwriter for '' Playdays'' on Children's BBC. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwin Bully
Alwin Anthony Bully (23 November 1948 – 10 March 2023) was a Dominican cultural administrator, playwright, actor and artist, who designed the national flag of Dominica. Bully was bestowed with the Sisserou Award of Honour, the nation's second highest honour, in 1985. He was responsible for establishing and developing Dominica's Department of Culture (Division of Culture) and was its first director. Viewed as being the island's "cultural icon", Bully's contributions were to arts and culture, also impacting on the areas of education and communication, and according to ''Dominica News Online'' there was no Dominican more decorated and honoured in those fields than Bully, whose influence extended to the wider Caribbean. Biography Early years & education Alwin Anthony Bully was born and raised in Roseau, Dominica, attending the Convent Preparatory School, the Dominica Grammar School, and St. Mary's Academy. His mother was an active organizer of social and cultural events, and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Lisa Allen-Agostini (born 1970s) is a Trinidadian journalist, editor and writer of fiction, poetry and drama. She is also a stand-up comedian, performing as "Just Lisa". Allen-Agostini has been a columnist for the '' Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'', writing both in Trinidadian Creole and in Standard English, and among other publications where her journalism appears are the '' Trinidad Express'', '' Caribbean Beat'', '' Caribbean Review of Books'', and '' Trinidad and Tobago Newsday''. She is the author of novels both for young people and adults, and her fiction and poetry have been published widely, including in '' Lightspeed'', '' Wasafiri'', '' sx salon'', ''Susumba'', ''Moko'', ''past simple'', and ''About Place Journal''. She is a contributor to the anthologies ''Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond'' (edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall, 2013) and '' New Daughters of Africa'' (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). Allen-Agostini's debut adult novel, ''The Brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourism Concern
Tourism Concern was a British NGO, advocating ethical tourism through campaigning and educating the tourism industry and travelling public. It closed in September 2018. Its members and staff worked to highlight global tourism's negative impacts and potential solutions, believing that host communities should truly benefit, not suffer, from tourism development. Its web and print archives held by Warwick University (see external links) document the scope of its work over thirty years. Stated aims were 'to increase understanding of the impact of tourism on environments and host communities among governments, industry, civil society and tourists; and to promote tourism development that is sustainable, just and participatory, and which is founded on a respect for human rights.' History Tourism Concern was founded in 1988 as an informal network, linking people around Britain with similar organisations elsewhere in the world. Its instigator and initial co-ordinator, Alison Stancliffe, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Charles
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first female lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister. She was the second female prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucina da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles. She was the first female in the Americas to be elected in her own right as head of government. She served for the second longest period of any Dominican prime minister, and was the world's fourth longest-serving female prime minister, behind Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and Indira Gandhi of India. She was also described as the " Iron Lady of the Caribbean". Personal life Eugenia Charles was born on 15 May 1919, in the fishing village of Pointe Michel in Saint Luke Parish, Dominica. She was the daughter of John Baptiste "J. B." Charles and Josephine Charles ( Delauney), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – 4 February 1986) was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, '' The Orchid House'' (1953), based on her own early life, which in 1991 was turned into a Channel 4 television miniseries of the same name in the United Kingdom. Early life and family background Born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies, in 1908, she was the daughter of Francis Byam Berkeley Shand and Elfreda (daughter of Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls), and was baptized Phyllis Byam. Her father's settler family was long established in Roseau. With roots in the West Indies going back to the 17th century, Phyllis later described herself as "a West Indian of over 300 years' standing, despite my pale face." Her earliest ancestor in the West Indies was Lieutenant General William Byam, a Royalist officer who in 1644 defended Bridgwater in Somerset against a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Higher Education
''Times Higher Education'' (''THE''), formerly ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'' (''The THES''), is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. Ownership TPG Capital acquired TSL Education from Charterhouse in a £400 million deal in July 2013 and rebranded TSL Education, of which ''Times Higher Education'' was a part, as TES Global. The acquisition by TPG marked the third change of ownership in less than a decade for Times Higher Education, which was previously owned by News International before being acquired by Exponent Private Equity in 2005. In March 2019, private equity group Inflexion Pvt. Equity Partners LLP acquired ''Times Higher Education'' from TPG Capital, becoming THE's fourth owners in 15 years. Following the acquisition by the private equity group, ''Times Higher Education'' was carved out as an independent entity from TES Global. The investment was made by Inflexion's dedicated mid-market buyout funds. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
