Tuesday 31 August 2010

Do you know about our open access journal?

Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal is hosted on our website and can be read free of charge by anyone. The journal includes topical articles such as British Pakistani Muslim Women's Political Empowerment and Boundary Crossings and The Impact of Government Initiatives in Promoting Racial Equality in Higher Education.

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NEW Issue Three is now available

Thursday 26 August 2010

Richard Lester donates first draft of Beatles films

Richard Lester has donated more than 60 boxes of letters, scripts, notes and photographs documenting his 40 year career, to the BFI National Archive. The donation includes the first drafts of the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help!. Lester’s collection also includes letters from Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch and Spike Milligan.

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MUP published a full analysis of Richard Lester’s career earlier this year. Indelibly associated with the Beatles, the ‘swinging sixties’ and his joyous sex comedy The Knack, Lester has tended to be categorised as a modish director whose heyday passed when that decade’s optimism slid into disillusionment and violence. This book presents an alternative view of his work.

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Peggy Seeger announces UK tour dates

Peggy Seeger will be touring the UK later this year, playing in various venues across the country. Last year Peggy helped us launch the revised edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, at a large memorial concert at Peel Hall in Salford. She also kindly contributed a new introduction for the title.

More details about Ewan MacColl's popular autobiography are available on our website.

Visit Peggy's website to find out more details about her UK tour.



Thursday 19 August 2010

Dictionary of British politics

REVIEW

The brand new Dictionary of British politics, by Bill Jones has been reviewed on the Liverpool Hope University website.

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