The Golden Notebook

Literary Review of Canada;  December 1, 2007 ;     242 words ...The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Since Doris Lessing...libraries. The key text is The Golden Notebook (1962). Even then it got ambivalent...dialogue). Reader, beware. The Golden Notebook is one of the most frustrating...

The British empire. (British imperialism)(Cover Story)

History Today;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......embark upon a new Oxford History of the British Empire which is to deal not only with its...endeavour is that the materials for the British Empire, even in its earliest stages, are so...concern when the Cambridge History of the British Empire was launched in 1929? Is it possible...

Legacies of empire. (how passage of time is generating romanticized view...

History Today;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......to the view historians have of the British Empire and its legacies'. The sun may finally...spate of published works about the British Empire. It is noticeable at first that most...demonstrate that with the passage of time the British Empire and its legacies are largely in the...

SELLING EMPIRE THE HISTORIAN NIALL FERGUSON CLAIMS THAT THE BRITISH EMPIRE...

The Boston Globe;  April 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ......old- fashioned colonial know-how? The British empire is undergoing something of a rehabilitation...would apologize for the ills of the British empire. If Ferguson had his way, however...izabeth's tour would be a celebration of the British empire as the global harbinger of free ...

Commander of the British Empire.(Awards)(Brief Article)

The Horn Book Magazine;  March 1, 2004 ;     22 words ...Philip Pullman was honored with the royal title Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on December 31, 2003, for his contribution to literature.

A brutal enterprise from first to last ; A brilliant new history of the...

Evening Standard - London;  October 15, 2007 ;     611 words ...The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon ONE OF Piers...sprinkled through this history of the British Empire, tells us of a futuristic short story...once soared. London is no more, the British Empire is dead, and the sun has risen over...

A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British...

Teaching History;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical...really needed to do something about the British Empire it sounded like a good idea. It was...

Letter: British Empire begins at home

The Independent - London;  February 11, 1997 ;     220 words ...British Empire begins at home Sir: I hope the new...more thoughtful account of the term "British Empire" than is apparent from Peter Popham...the museum's curator alludes, "the British Empire" meant not far-flung dominions but...

Service of the Order of the British Empire

The Independent - London;  November 3, 1995 ;     131 words ...Service of the Order of the British Empire The Queen has commanded that a Service of the Order of the British Empire be held in St Paul's Cathedral...to the Order and holders of the British Empire Medal who wish to attend should...

THE LAST THOUSAND DAYS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE By Peter Clarke Allen Lane,...

The Sunday Herald;  August 19, 2007 ;     594 words ......second world war did much to undo the British empire. Britain emerged from the victory celebrations...while simultaneously undermining the British empire. The wartime president, Franklin D...Roosevelt not died in April 1945, the British empire might not have lasted as long as it...

Order of the British Empire service.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 27, 2004 ;     56 words ......in the procession during a sevice for the Order of the British Empire at St Paul's Cathedral in central London. The event, at...years, with the Queen, as Sovereign of the Order of the British Empire, only attending every eight years

Nuclear Cassandra: prophecy in Doris Lessing's The Golden...

Papers on Language & Literature;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......explores precisely this question in The Golden Notebook (1962), a multi-layered, multi-voiced...many thematic preoccupations of The Golden Notebook and the socio-political crisis with...powerful intertext for my reading of The Golden Notebook, insofar as Wolf's novelization of...

Books: a book that changed me STEPHANIE DOWRICK on Doris Lessing's 'The...

The Independent - London;  May 3, 1998 ;     357 words ...When did you first read it? I read The Golden Notebook in about 1970. I was then young, intensely curious about...questions. Why did it strike you so much? Reading The Golden Notebook was utterly revelatory. Here were women characters who...

BUILDING A LIBRARY: The British Empire

The Independent on Sunday;  March 2, 2003 ;     605 words ......in the history and literature of the British Empire, which offers major problems of categorization...five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire, edited by WM Roger Louis and others...Chris Bayly, Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780- 1830 (1989), perhaps...

The emerald in the crown.(Ireland and the British Empire: The Oxford...

Irish Literary Supplement;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...KEVIN KENNY, EDITOR Ireland and the British Empire Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series Oxford University Press...recent five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire. In his foreword Nicholas Canny points out...