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Alison Light, FBA FRSL FRHistS (born 4 August 1955) is a writer, critic and independent scholar. She is the author of five books to date. In 2020 A Radical Romance, was awarded the Pen Ackerley prize, the only prize for memoir in the UK. Common People: The History of an English Family (2014) was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) prize. She has held a number of academic posts and is currently an Honorary Fellow in History and English at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of English, University College, London and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of English, Edinburgh University. She is a founding member of the Raphael Samuel Archive and History Centre in London.

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Alison Light

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Alison Light, FBA FRSL FRHistS (born 4 August 1955) is a writer, critic and independent scholar. She is the author of five books to date. In 2020 A Radical...

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And Then There Were None

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the mystery (Ten Little Niggers) was changed because it was offensive. Alison Light, a literary critic and feminist scholar, opined that Christie's original...

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Raphael Samuel

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Hilda Kean, "Remembering Raphael Samuel : Alison Light and A Radical Romance", 13 November 2019. Alison Light, "Diary | The death of Raphael Samuel", London...

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Alison Owen

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Alison Mary Owen (born 18 February 1961) is an English film producer. Her credits as a producer include Moonlight and Valentino (1995), Elizabeth (1998)...

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Alison Arngrim

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Alison Margaret Arngrim (born January 18, 1962) is an American actress and author. Beginning her television career at the age of twelve, Arngrim is a Young...

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Alison Krauss

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Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing...

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Alison Balsom

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Alison Louise Balsom, Lady Mendes, OBE (born 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, and music educator. Balsom was awarded...

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Roaring Twenties

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apart from full suffrage which came in 1928. On the contrary, argues Alison Light, literary sources reveal that many British women enjoyed: ... the buoyant...

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Alison Hammond

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Alison Hammond (born 5 February 1975) is a British television personality and actress. She competed in the third series of the reality show Big Brother...

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John Bull

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function was largely taken over by the figure of Tommy Atkins. According to Alison Light, during the interwar years the nation abandoned "formerly heroic...public...

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That They May Face the Rising Sun

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its nomination for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2003. Alison Light of The Independent stated of the work: McGahern conjures the warmth and...

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Alison Starling

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Alison Starling-Alexander (born October 28, 1973) is an American former television news anchor and journalist. She was a co-anchor of WJLA-TV's weekday...

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Leisure

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Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism (2001). Alison Light, Forever England: femininity, literature and conservatism between the...

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Virginia Woolf

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[citation needed] Some authors, including David Daiches, Brenda Silver, Alison Light and other postcolonial feminists, dismiss her (and modernist authors...

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Royal Society of Literature

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Machine, The Royal Society of Literature press release, June 2018. Flood, Alison (30 November 2020). "Royal Society of Literature reveals historic changes...

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Lydia Lopokova

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Lopokova". The Telegraph. London. 25 April 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2010. Alison Light, "Lady Talky," London Review of Books, 18 December 2008. Lydia and Maynard:...

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Rosie Alison

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Rosie Alison, Lady Waterstone (born 1964) is a British television documentary director, film producer and novelist. Her debut novel, The Very Thought of...

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Alison and Peter Smithson

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Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together...

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Baillie Gifford Prize

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Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2019. Flood, Alison (14 May 2009). "Science dominates Samuel Johnson prize longlist". The Guardian...

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Windy City Rehab

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American television series on HGTV based in Chicago, Illinois and starring Alison Victoria, an interior designer who does home renovation projects. An 11-episode...

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Alison Saunders

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Dame Alison Margaret Saunders, DCB (née Brown; born 14 February 1961) is a British barrister and a former Director of Public Prosecutions. She was the...

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Ackerley Prize

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(Harvill Secker) 2019: Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible (Penguin) 2020: Alison Light, A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation (Fig Tree)...

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Alison Redford

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Alison Merrilla Redford ECA KC (born March 7, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician. She was the 14th premier of Alberta, having served in this...

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Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward

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On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia...

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Interwar Britain

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Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism (2001). Alison Light, Forever England: femininity, literature and conservatism between the...

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Bloomsbury Ballerina

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Mackrell...is brilliant at making the reader see why Lopokova matters" Alison Light, in the London Review of Books praised Bloomsbury Ballerina, writing...

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