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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

A Life with the Colonial Education Service and the British Council in Asia

By: Verner C. Bickley

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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

A Life with the Colonial Education Service and the British Council in Asia

By: Verner C. Bickley

The Education Service was a vital arm of the British Colonial Service while the British Council has been paramount in promoting the English language and culture overseas. But are both agents of British colonialism and neo-colonialism? Or are both simply altruistic purveyors of language and culture to a wider world? Verner Bickley as an Education Officer in the British Colonial Service and in the British Council provides the answer and shows that educational and cultural values were paramount and important in themselves, and through the medium of the near-global English language, vitally important in both culture and technical training. Life in overseas postings was set against a backdrop of turbulent international relations following World War II, including service in the Royal Navy in India and Ceylon, soon to be become independent Sri Lanka. Bickley was Education Officer in Singapore during the tumultuous 1950s, at the time of the Malayan 'Emergency' and in the lead-up to independence in 1957 which he announced on Radio Malaya. His service with the British Council began with a posting to Burma during the premiership of U Nu, struggling with ethnic problems and to be ousted by military coup. And during his time in Indonesia the British Embassy was burnt to the ground by rioters. Later service was in Japan - basking in its success as an emerging economic powerhouse. This is an essentially warm and human story enlivened, especially during the British Council period, by a succession of diverse personalities, including royalty, British and Thai, as well as writers like Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene and Willis Hall and actors such as Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart and Max Adrian.

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0857712675

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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

A Life with the Colonial Education Service

By: Verner Bickley

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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

A Life with the Colonial Education Service

By: Verner Bickley

The Education Service was a vital sector of the British Colonial Service while the British Council has been paramount in promoting the English language and culture overseas. But are both agents of colonialism and neo-colonialism? Or simply altruistic conveyors of language and culture to a wider world? Verner Bickley as an Education Officer in British Colonial Service in Singapore and as British Council officer in Burma, Indonesia and Japan, shows how cultural values were uppermost and important in themselves though the medium of the near-universal English language, and vital for technical training. Bickley's service was set against a backdrop of political turbulence after World War II, colonial independence movements and the emergence of Japan as an economic powerhouse. This personal account of his career is enlivened by a succession of meetings with diverse personalities, including royalty, British and Thai, as well as writers like Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene and Willis Hall and actors such as Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart and Max Adrian.

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Radcliffe Press

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1441657460

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9781441657466

Mingled Voices 6

International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2021

By: Joanna Radwanska-Williams

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Mingled Voices 6

International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2021

By: Joanna Radwanska-Williams

MINGLED VOICES 6 contains the work of sixty-seven poets. The one hundred and thirty-three or so poems were selected from those entered for the International Proverse Poetry Prize in 2021, the sixth such annual international competition administered from Hong Kong. The International Proverse Poetry Prize was jointly founded in 2016 by Dr Gillian Bickley and Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, in association with the annual international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry, submitted in English, which they also founded, in 2008. Poems could be submitted on any subject or topic, chosen by each poet, or on the subject chosen for 2021 by the Administrators, "Shielding" (interpreted in any way each writer chose). There was a free choice of interpretation, form and style. Included in the anthology are the poems that won the first, second, and third prizes. Selection to appear in the anthology was also awarded as a prize by the judges. This year, special mention is additionally made of five of these poets. Poems were submitted from around the world by writers with a variety of previous writing experience. Brief biographies of all of those whose work is represented in Mingled Voices 6 are included in the anthology as well as authors' background notes on their work. ADVANCE COMMENTS "I genuinely feel that one of the greatest gifts poetry offers us is to realise that we are not alone in the world - that our own lives, thoughts and experiences matter and are reflected in others. I also firmly believe that poetry finds its most important place in times of greatest need. The challenges we face currently...seem to weigh so very heavily. For me, as a poet and as a reader, it is in these times that I turn to poetry to help me to reflect not only on the joy and beauty we can experience in the world around us, but also to remind me of our extraordinary ability, throughout the eons, as human beings, to always try to lean into the light. I commend the editors, and all of the poets in these pages, for raising a lantern in the darkness so that people...can continue to find human connection, solace and hope through the gift of poetry in our world." -Anne Casey, First-prize winner, International Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 "An intriguing despatch from the front lines. - If, in Shelley's famous phrase, poets are (or were) the 'unacknowledged legislators of the world', then perhaps these days or at least in this volume they are the non-credentialed journalists of the inner experience of the pandemic." -Jeff Streeter, Director of the British Council in Hong Kong

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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

A Life with the Colonial Education Service and the British Council in Asia

By: Verner C. Bickley

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Forward to Beijing

A Guide to the Summer Olympics

By: Verner Bickley

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Forward to Beijing

A Guide to the Summer Olympics

By: Verner Bickley

FORWARD TO BEIJING: A GUIDE TO THE SUMMER OLYMPICS-Gives a brief history of the Games from their ancient origins in Greece to their revival in 1896.-Surveys some of the triumphs enjoyed and difficulties encountered by the Olympic Movement over time. -Gives some of the highlights of Olympiads held from 1896 to 1984, including details of those athletes who won more than one gold medal each in any one of these early modern Olympiads. -Taking 1988 as a starting point, gives a detailed account of several important aspects of the Olympic Games.-Each of the twenty-eight Olympic sports from "Aquatics" to "Wrestling" is described with definitions of some of the special terms used and explanations of the rules that govern these sports, together with their associated disciplines.-Gives, for every single Olympic sport, the names of gold medal winners at these Games, and information about the country they represented. Appeals across age and gender, designed for longevity. "Will appeal to the adult 'armchair enthusiast' seeking to get the most out of televised events." -Vincent Heywood, Chinese Cross Currents."Comprehensive and scholarly. The idea is noble: encourage visitors to embrace the symbolic gesture of this third Asian summer Olympiad - international goodwill, cooperation and peace." - Hong Kong Magazine.

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Proverse Hong Kong

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9888167049

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The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

By: Verner Courtenay Bickley,Ian Grant,Kemal Bokhary Jp

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The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

By: Verner Courtenay Bickley,Ian Grant,Kemal Bokhary Jp

-Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history.-Carefully edited and annotated transcription of newspaper reports of magistrate's court cases at a particularly lively period in Hong Kong history, with analyses and background documentation of specific offences, detailed references to historical Ordinances, and a careful index.-Illuminates the interface and parallels between the establishment of a colonial education system and the introduction of colonial law. -Extends our knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Hong Kong family and social life, law, policing, and court practice. Provides information about hundreds of individuals.-Throws additional light on the Irish Roman Catholic Governor of the time, John Pope Hennessy and the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Frederick Stewart.

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Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Mingled Voices 6

Mingled Voices 6

Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Footfalls Echo in the Memory

Forward to Beijing

Forward to Beijing

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

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