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Political machinations, deadly resistance over 2 centuries of Indian history
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New Delhi, May 12 : From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple comes a four-book collection chronicling the thrilling rise and fall of the East India Company.
We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a much more sinister reality. For it was not the British government that began seizing chunks of India in the mid-eighteenth century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in the city of London.
Supporting authors and writers through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond
Westminster s All Party Writers Group sets out the impact of the pandemic on authors earnings and proposals for future recovery.
LONDON, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The All Party Parliamentary Writers Group (APWG) has laid bare Covid-19 s devastating impact on the livelihoods of the UK s authors and writers and, in its latest report published today, has set out a Ten Point Plan to help post-pandemic recovery.
The report is the latest calling for further targeted support for the country s fragile creative and cultural sectors beyond the emergency funding so far, and for better engagement by Government with the creative workforce itself, including the vast number of freelancers, and not just industry.
Think reading means you re smart? Think again
We tend to think that reading is a sign of intelligence, that we’re improved by it. But are our assumptions well-founded? Not really, according to an array of literary front-runners including Fran Lebowitz and Nick Hornby. Writer Barbara Nichol explores the assumptions we have about reading, readers and books in a three-part IDEAS series.
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Posted: May 13, 2020 6:03 PM ET | Last Updated: April 30 I have a love of the book, Fran Lebowitz tells IDEAS. The author, humorist, essayist, and lecturer is best known for her early best-selling collections of comic essays: Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. (Brigitte Lacombe)
HE was one of Scotland’s greatest 20th-century poets and authors who told wider truths from the micro world of his native Orkney. Now a writer is wanted to follow in the ink tips of George Mackay Brown in the centenary year of his birth. Applications opened this week for a residency to give an Orkney-based writer the opportunity to develop new work using Orcadian dialect. Hosted by the National Library of Scotland, the “Scots Scriever” post is for 12 months and will provide £15,000 to the successful applicant. “The role of the Scots Scriever – a joint initiative between Creative Scotland and the National Library of Scotland – aims to support the creation of original writing in Scots and the promotion of the language through creative forms,” says the advert.