Napoleon Hill's First Editions: A Rare Collection of Articles Frist Published in Hill's Golden Rule Magazine & Napoleon Hill's Magazine
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
When David Simon's groundbreaking series becomes a subject of academic study, even the question of whether it's a TV show is up for discussion So is The Wire a cop show, part of a totally new genre or not even a TV programme at all? At the Wire as Social Science Fiction? conference in Leeds, Freya Billington from the University of Gloucestershire argued The Wire is in fact a new form of TV. "By...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Apprentices lost lives in fire at Malton hostel in September • Trainer Kahlil Burke banned from racing for three years Police investigating the fire at a jockeys' hostel near Malton in September in which two promising young riders died have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with their inquiries. Officers could not confirm whether the man, being held at a police station in north...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
BBC Freeview HD avaliable in London and Manchester in two weeks and one day - 2 December. The BBC announce that: "Today the BBC has confirmed the timetable that will make HD services on Freeview available to 50% of the population in time for next June's World Cup, and to 98.5% [1] of the population by the end of digital switchover in three years' time. In order to bring the benefits of HD on Freeview...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
England and Gloucester rugby player Andy Hazell lists his top tips for his home county Gloucester Guildhall This cracking small live music venue is one of the town's best kept secrets. The management seem to have the knack of discovering big bands early and persuading bigger names to play to no more than a few hundred people. Over the years they've had Radiohead, Muse and Primal Scream, among others....
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The good news about Freeview HD just keeps on coming, with confirmation arriving that more than 20 terrestrial transmitters will be beaming out high-definition free-to-air pictures in time for the 2010 World Cup. London has already joined Granada in getting Freeview HD this year, and Glasgow and Edinburgh (Black Hill), Durham and Teeside (Pontop Pike), Birmingham (Lichfield), and south Yorkshire (Emley...
Focus on the Ladden-Frome area (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
You only have until 4.30pm on Friday (23rd) to apply for a primary or secondary school place for September 2010. Due to the planned postal strikes by Royal Mail workers next week, South Gloucestershire Council is strongly advising any parents who have yet to submit an application for a school place to do so online or in person. You can apply online at www.southglos.gov.uk/admissions . If you prefer...
Penyffordd and District (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Mr Mark Polin was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary on 19th October 2007. Mr Polin entered the Police Service in 1983 joining the City of London Police where he rose to the rank of Chief Inspector. His last posting saw him in charge of operations at Snow Hill, with particular responsibility for security operations at the Central Criminal Court and other high profile venues....
Crickley Hill Reunion 2009 (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
C-H-M recently acquired, from a second-hand bookseller, a copy of an abstract of Elsie Clifford's 1964 paper in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, inscribed on the cover "With love & many thanks from Elsie". It would be interesting to know to whom she sent it. The first part of the paper reads: "An Enclosure on Crickley Hill Gloucestershire...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill, and Outside of A Dog by Rick Gekoski: review Susan Hill and Rick Gekoski reflect on the influence of literature in shaping their lives By Michael Arditti Published, The Telegraph Outside of a Dog by Rick Gekoski Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill It is hard to imagine a future chronicler of literary life entitling a novel: “Screens do Furnish...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Ronald Blythe writes from his old Suffolk farmhouse, and Susan Hill writes from her old Gloucestershire farmhouse. The view from the windows, the weather, the changing light and the rhythm of the seasons, are evoked by both of them with a similar lyric precision and grace. Reading about their extraordinarily pleasing surroundings and rich interior lives may cause the word ‘complacency’...
Deepness in the sky (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
1 Oxford 2 Cambridge 3 Imperial College 4 London School of Economics 5 Durham 6 Warwick 7 St Andrews 8 University College London 9 Bath 10 York 11 Edinburgh 12 Lancaster 13 Southampton 13 Aston 15 SOAS 16 Bristol 17 King's College London 18 Loughborough 19 Nottingham 19 Exeter 20 Leicester 22 Royal Holloway 23 Newcastle 24 Sheffield 25 Sussex 26 Glasgow 27 Birmingham 28 Leeds 28 Manchester 30 Essex...
freeranger (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
What a beautiful Indian Summer day it was today! Caroline and I caught buses to Winchcombe, and walked the dozen or so miles from there to Tewkesbury. It's the last leg of the Gloucestershire Way, but we have still to go back and do the first three. Surprisingly, for quite a modern long distance path, it's not well signposted. So, for instance, we got lost for a while on top of Langley Hill above Winchcombe...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
A 400-year-old six-bedroom house with a 25-seat cinema and a pool went on sale yesterday with a price tag of £3.5m – and the carbon footprint of a two-bedroom flat. According to self-billed eco-entrepreneur Paul Lavelle, Barnsley Hill Farm, Gloucestershire, was designed to be airtight, the walls and roof sealed with a polyurethane blanket. A ventilation system brings in a controlled amount...
The Land of Lost Content (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Herbert Howells was exceedingly unlucky. On two occasions he lost manuscripts whilst travelling by rail. The score of Missa Sabrinensis was in a briefcase thrown out of a train window by a thief. This was later recovered from the line-side. However he was not so lucky with the String Quartet In Gloucestershire . It is understood that the composer had completed the work in 1916. Travelling on a local...
Crickley Hill Reunion 2009 (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
My thanks as usual to the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for their permission to reproduce this abstract from their Proceedings about the 1982 season: "Badgeworth/Coberley, Crickley Hill, SO 927161. During the 14th season of excavation at Crickley work concentrated on the extreme southern end of the Iron Age rampart. Here, the final rampart, stepped at the front in our other...
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