“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Amnesty International
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Malorie Blackman | As MB
became well-known, she has frequently been invited to contribute to collections of short fiction for young people, sometimes to benefit worthy causes. She has stories in, for instance, Dare to Be Different... |
| Employer | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
began work as an assistant editor for Amnesty International
this year. She continued the work until her retirement in 1994. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
| Employer | J. K. Rowling | Her first job (apart from working as an assistante or part-time language teacher in Paris, and secretarial temping jobs, one of them with a publisher) was to work for Amnesty International
in London... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maud Gonne | Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | Judith Pakenham
made her first marriage, in 1963, to a lawyer named Alec Kazantzis
. She had two children, Miranda Elizabeth
, born in 1964, and Arthur Constantine
, born in 1967. She has written... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | J. K. Rowling | Joanne Rowling
wrote her first story at the age of six: Rabbit, inspired by Richard Scarry
. The Seven Cursed Diamonds, also written at primary school, owed more to E. Nesbit
. She... |
| politics | Pat Arrowsmith | Between these years, PA
was jailed eleven times as a political prisoner; twice she was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International
. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes. |
| politics | Ali Smith | |
| Reception | Gillian Slovo | In 2009 she received an award from Amnesty International
for an article she wrote on children in detention. “Gillian Slovo”. doollee.com. |
| Textual Features | J. K. Rowling | JKR
develops a tightly though unobtrusively structured argument around her chosen themes of failure and imagination. She begins with the necessary light-hearted jokes (most memorably, as she suggests, about leading astray the graduates before her... |
Timeline
28 May 1961: Amnesty, later Amnesty International, was...
Building item
28 May 1961
Amnesty
, later Amnesty International, was founded when a British lawyer, Peter Benenson
, published an article in the Observer entitled The Forgotten Prisoners.
Waal, Alex de. “The Moral Solipsism of Global Ethics Inc”. London Review of Books, 23 Aug. 2001, pp. 15-18.
16
Amnesty Timeline. http://web.amnesty.org/flash/40th/flashmovie.html.
10 December 1977: Amnesty International, the London-based organization...
National or international item
10 December 1977
Amnesty International
, the London-based organization for monitoring the treatment of political prisoners, was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
March 1979: Dr Robert Irwin was interviewed by Independent...
National or international item
March 1979
Dr Robert Irwin
was interviewed by Independent Television
about his treatment of police prisoners who showed signs of torture; a week later a government report appeared.
Kelley, Kevin. The Longest War: Northern Ireland and the IRA. Brandon; Lawrence Hill, 1982.
297-9
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
503
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