London Calling Research Articles

London's Career Motivation Theory: An Update on Measurement and Research

The concept of career motivation initially presented by London (1983) integrates individual differences into three domains: career resilience, career insight, and career identity. This serves as an organizing framework in which to understand and enhance the effects of situational conditions on career decisions and behavior. This article summarizes London's career motivation theory, describes assessment center and paper-and-pencil measures of the career motivation domains, presents a study showing the convergent validity of three measures, and reviews research findings. Suggestions are made for future research and practice.

John Davidson, first of the moderns: a literary biography

John Davidson, First of the Moderns explores Davidson's career in London as a penniless author, struggling to reconcile the freedom to experience demanded by the avant-garde artist in the age of the Decadence with the obligations of family, and the ambition for a many-sided reputation as a poet, novelist, and playwright with his need to survive in the commercial rough and tumble of Fleet Street, the theatre and Paternoster Row. The conditions of authorship, the literary scandals and rows of Fleet Street, and the revelations of the characters involved here provide the literary background to the life of John Davidson. The picture that emerges is not simply of a late Victorian rebel, but of a proto-Modernist who from his recovery from a breakdown in 1896 to his strange disappearence and death in 1909, pioneered a new idiom and subject matter for twentieth-century verse.

London Calling: Current Approaches in Group Analysis

London Calling: Current Approaches in Group Analysis

Caribbean and African Writing in the BBC's Written Archives

Recent research has clearly established the links between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the fictional monster which it inspired in George Orwell's 1984, the Ministry of Truth. Orwell's work for the BBC's Asian Service and with Indian writers has been examined and gaps in his euvre filled following research at the BBC's Written Archives Centre at Caversham near Reading.1 For those concerned with the BBC's overseas services, particularly the services to Africa and the Caribbean, the Archives offers a largely untapped source of material about how the BBC conducted its business, and of creative work which was broadcast. Space available at the Archives is limited and arrangements to use the facilities have to be made in advance. Researchers are required to give undertakings about the use to which they intend to put their findings, and to comply with the Copyright Act photocopies of scripts can be made only after the written consent of the author concerned has been obtained. On the open shelves in the reading-room researchers will find back numbers of London Calling, the Radio Times of the overseas services. These provide details about the material broadcast and contain clues to the broadcasting policy and indications about programmes which writers, teachers, and students might have listened to in different parts of the world. The most revealing programmes are those which collected material specifically for the overseas networks. For example, 'Calling West Africa' ran a 'What is...' series which included talks on Guy Fawkes Day, the Derby, and the theatre. During 1956 lectures were broadcast about Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the following year Maurice Cranston contributed a series on English Grammar in which he considered such topics as 'Shall and Will', 'Split Infinitives', 'Like and As', and 'Malapropisms'. For those doing research on Caribbean and African authors the creative writing programmes, such as 'Caribbean Voices' and 'West African Voices', are of particular importance. A catalogue listing contributions by Caribbean authors has been prepared and so researchers can find out, at a glance, the titles of work presented and available. The boxes containing the scripts can be provided by the archivists and the texts consulted. The archive thus

London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile

Research Article| January 01 1988 London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile Rob Nixon Rob Nixon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (1): 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rob Nixon; London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1988; 87 (1): 1–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-1-1 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press1988 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Seferis and England: A Greek Poet in an English Landscape

Seferis and England: A Greek Poet in an English Landscape George Thaniel The special relationship which George Seferis (1900-71) developed in the last 40 or so years of his life with Britain is obvious even to the casual observer of his life and his work. He started and finished the foreign part of his diplomatic career in London, and on various other occasions, before, during and after the Second World War, he had to deal with British politicians, diplomats, and military officers. Seferis developed a close tie with T. S. Eliot, but he had many connections with other influential English writers as well. It would be fair to say that without the publicity which these writers provided for his literary work and the honors which he received in Britain towards the end of his career (1960-62), the Swedish Academy could not have known enough about Seferis to consider him a candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature and finally to award it to him in 1963, the first Greek writer to have received it. The connections of Seferis with England and the English intelligentsia were celebrated, after his death, by exhibitions held in Athens and London, the eulogies which British friends published on his behalf, and the scholarship which his poetry and essays generated in the English-speaking world. One might add that the associations of Seferis with North American intellectuals and institutions seem really to postdate the awarding of the Nobel prize and may be seen as extensions of his longer-standing ones with Britain. These facts are fairly well known; yet, apart from Seferis' association with the poetry and critical thought of Eliot, there has never been an attempt, beyond generalities, to explore them. The topic has many ramifications and should be meaningful to comparatists as well as English and Greek specialists. I propose to investigate it, taking as my base Seferis' own work: poetry, essays, diaries, correspondence, and other relevant material. I begin with the question of Seferis' reactions to the natural and human landscape of Britain in the formative years of 1931-34, when he served his country as acting Consul 85 86 George Thaniel General in London, as well as in the summer of 1944, when Seferis flew to England from Egypt, carrying certain messages to the British Government from the Greek Government in exile. The recently published Meres F, which covers Seferis' second extended stay (195152 ) in England, mirrors his associations with a number of wellknown English writers and other intellectual men rather than his reactions to the natural and human landscape of Britain. Seferis' Meres G, which covers the years 1957-62 (when Seferis served as Greek Ambassador in Britain) is not available yet, with the exception of a few entries which have been printed in magazines. Seferis was born at Smyrna, in Asia Minor. He was raised both there and subsequently in Athens, and, for the rest of his life, he remained an emotional captive of the Greek landscape with its frequent views of the sea. Astrology-minded persons might see a significance in that Seferis was born under the sign of Pisces, on 29 February, by the old Greek Calendar (13 March, by the new), in 1900. Many of the happier notes in his poetry are related to the sea. The diaries reflect this fascination with the sea more directly: "My second swim, at Vouliagmeni. Magic of the sea hard to explain. How it changes me all at once: my wonder, a wonder deep to the bone. I cannot understand . I should go closer, I should try to cross that borderline into another world" (Meres E 1973: 33). Between 1918 and 1924 Seferis studied in Paris and, although he sometimes felt emotionally alienated, he loved the city and its rich cultural atmosphere. "I spent six and a half years in Paris," Seferis noted in his diary. "I lived fully and wholeheartedly, loving each moment, each corner of the city and each stone" (Meres B 1975: 80). In the second half of 1924, after he had received his diploma in law, Seferis traveled to London with the purpose of learning English, in view of the fact that his family wanted...

Janet Watson—an appreciation and bibliography

Janet Watson—an appreciation and bibliography

London calling: A policy for telecommunications after privatization

With the UK government's plan to privatize British Telecom moving forward seemingly without obstacle, Gareth Locksley examines the implications for London. Rather than concentrate on the arguments against privatization, this article considers a post-privatization strategy for the capital based on the need for a universally accessible system for the whole community.

W. J. Donthorn (1799-1859): Architecture with 'Great Hardness and Decision in the Edges'

Cambridge was a crucial centre of patronage and taste at the beginning of the Greek Revival’s popularity during the first thirty-five years of the nineteenth century. Yet beyond the University there seems to have been little opening for practitioners of the style in East Anglia as a whole. Thus William Wilkins, Francis Goodwin and William John Donthorn, all three born in Norfolk, made their careers in London. Donthorn, the least noticed of the three, did however develop local connexions in Norfolk, particularly as a country house architect. Few of his houses remain today, yet we may assess his idiosyncratic contribution both from early photographs and from his drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Oliver Goldsmith's Reputation in Ireland, 1762-74

O LIVER GOLDSMITH left his native Ireland in 1752 at about the age of twenty-two and never returned. He spent his short but exceedingly productive literary career in London, where he won considerable recognition. This recognition was not limited to London but extended across the Irish Sea, as the large number of Dublin editions of Goldsmith's works indicates.' In order to document and appraise Goldsmith's reputation in his native land during the period of his London successes, I shall examine in paper eleven Irish periodicals for the period 1762-74, deposited in the National Library of Ireland, the Trinity College Library, and the Public Record Office, all in Dublin, and the Linen Hall Library of Belfast. The Irish periodicals show that Goldsmith's comedies were the most widely known in Ireland of his many works. There were advertisements of The Good Natur'd and She Stoops to Conquer by their various Irish publishers, announcements of productions of the two plays, and reviews, both favorable and unfavorable. William Sleater in Dublin gave notice in his Public Gazetteer on April 14, 1768 of his publication of The Good Natur'd and carried the play in his publishing list until March 29, 1774, the last issue of the newspaper I have seen. Sleater advertised the work as a play selling for 6d. until October 1770, when The Good Natur'd lost its status as a play for 6d. and became a farce at 3d. By November 2, 1771, however, it had regained in Sleater's list its status as a play at the higher price. The Good Natur'd was not produced until May 1770, when George Faulkner's Dublin Journal announced on May 15, 1770 that a Comedy, (never acted in Kingdom) called the Good-natured Man would be presented at the City Theatre in Capel-street, Dublin, on May 17, 1770 for the benefit of a popular actor, Mr. Lewes. Faulkner announced another presentation of the play on February 3, 1773 at the Theatre-Royal in Crow Street, Dublin. Two newspapers in Cork, William Flyn's Hibernian Chronicle2 and Phineas and George Bagnell's Cork Evening Post, reported the first performance in Cork of The Good Natur'd on July 6, 1773 at the TheatreRoyal. She Stoops to Conquer was received with greater enthusiasm in Ireland. Faulkner's Dublin Journal and Thomas M'Donnel's Hibernian Journal show that the play was presented at the Theatre-Royal in Crow Street, Dublin, on April 12, 14, 21, and 26, 1773 and at the City Theatre in Smock Alley, Dublin, on April 13, 21, and 24, and May 1, 18, and 28, 1773. When the theatrical season began in the fall after the summer holidays, the Smock Alley Theatre staged the play once in September, three times in October, four times in November, and four times in December. During the next year the comedy was given at Smock Alley seven times before Goldsmith's death on April 4, 1774. She Stoops to Conquer was also presented in the provincial theaters of Ireland during 1773. Henry Joy's Belfast News-Letter and General Advertiser reported performances of the comedy on September 17, 20 and 22, 1773 at the Belfast Theatre. The Cork Evening Post for June 28, 1773 announced that the Theatre-Royal in Cork would produce this present Tuesday the 29th Inst. a Comedy (never acted here but once) called She Stoops to Conquer. The first performance may have been reported in the newspaper for June 4, 1773; issue is missing from the file in the National Library of Ireland. Both the Cork Evening Post and

Eustace Ebenezer Turner, 1893-1966

Eustace Ebenezer Turner was born in London on 22 May 1893. His father, John Turner, had as a young man left the village of Finchingfield, Essex, which had been the home of the Turners for many generations, for a business career in London, eventually as a piano merchant. Eustace Turner’s mother, Annie Elizabeth, née Coates, came from Windermere: she was of Lakeland stock. Eustace was the youngest of a family of three children: his brother was nine years older and his sister three years older than himself. It seems to have been a plain-living, serious-minded household. Both parents were active in church work. Of the life of the children, Eustace wrote: ‘We children had no money to spend on amusements, and as a result learned to take pleasure in such things as woodworking. My brother and I made electrical apparatus, and we had a chemical bench, first in a bedroom and later in a garden shed. In the latter we had no running water, and used a spirit lamp for heating. Every summer we all went to Finchingfield for our holiday, and lived as members of the village community. Long walks and amateur fishing were our main occupations. Until I was twenty, I had never seen the inside of a theatre or even of a picture palace. I had only twice seen the sea, and the North Sea at that.’

Frederic Wood Jones, 1879-1954

Frederic Wood Jones was born in London on 23 January 1879, the son of an architect of Welsh descent. As a boy he was a keen entomologist and showed an unusual interest in all branches of natural history. These pursuits engaged much of his attention during his school days and, with a number of interruptions due to ill-health, no doubt accounted for the fact that his school career was quite undistinguished, and that he also found some difficulty in passing the examination for the London University Matriculation. He finally matriculated in 1897 and entered the London Hospital as a medical student. It was here that he first showed evidence of his intellectual ability, for he won a succession of scholarships and prizes in anatomy, physiology and clinical medicine. It was at the London Hospital, also, that Wood Jones came under the influence of Chalmers Mitchell and Arthur Keith, to both of whom he later recorded his debt of gratitude for their stimulating influence. He qualified with the degrees of M.B., B.S. in 1904, and even while a student he had already contributed to the Proceedings of the Journal of Anatomy & Physiology (as it was then called) short notes on the musculature of the bladder and urethra, the development of the fundus of the stomach, and a method of reconstruction of a human embryo by photographic reproductions of serial sections. These early publications showed a certain originality of approach which was later to become a very characteristic quality of Wood Jones’s work. It is not surprising, therefore, that his teachers and friends hoped that, on qualification, he would settle down to an academic career in London. But, against all their advice, he left England in January 1905 to take up an appointment as Medical Officer to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in the Far East, and, after a short stay in Singapore, sailed for the Cocos-Keeling Islands. We do not know what decided him on this course, but it clearly fits into the pattern of the whole of his subsequent career, for he was essentially a wanderer and a seeker after adventure; indeed, he never stayed in any of the numerous positions which he held for more than a few years.

A Note on Edward Cave's Early London Career

A Note on Edward Cave's Early London Career

Propaganda by Short Wave: London Calling America

Propaganda by Short Wave: London Calling America

University of Cambridge Parliamentary By-election

THE recent by-election in the University of Cambridge to choose a successor to the late Sir John Withers in the House of Commons was of unusual personal interest to scientific workers in that the two candidates must be well known to many of them. Prof. A. V. Hill, Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society, formerly Jodrell professor of physiology in University College, London, has been one of the secretaries of the Royal Society since 1935. Prof. John A. Ryle, regius professor of physic at Cambridge since 1935, has had a distinguished medical career in London, and recently completed a four-year term on the Medical Research Council. Both candidates adopted the adjective 'independent', and while Prof. Hill accepted the support of the Cambridge Conservative Graduate Association, Prof. Ryle preferred to style himself 'progressive'. Prof. Ryle's advantage as a Cambridge resident was offset by the fact that Prof. Hill, as a former scholar and fellow of Trinity College, is well known in Cambridge.

The Empire Service Broadcasting Station

Mr. L. W. Hayes and Mr. R. N. MacLarty presented an interesting paper to the Institution of Electrical Engineers on February 2. They first gave an account of how broadcast transmissions with short waves initially started at the Chelmsford works of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphic Co. in 1927. This gave intelligible reception at practically every place on the earth's surface at almost every period of the day and year. A serious difficulty that had to be overcome was due to the wide difference in longitude of the different Dominions and Colonies of the British Empire. For this reason, a transmission sent out at a given time in England would arrive at very various local times of the night and day in the different Dominions. Broadly, the aim of the service is to give listeners anywhere in the Empire a daily programme of about two hours' duration; the installation of the new broadcasting service started in 1933 practically does this. Earlier than this, reports received in the West Indies also gave a service at the same time in Western Australia, and the announcement of “London calling the African and West African Zones” was being heard simultaneously at night in Africa, in the early evening in South America and the West Indies, and at breakfast time in New Zealand. This showed that dividing the earth into geographical zones could cause confusion. Accordingly, the daily transmission from the Empire Station at Daventry was divided into five sessions: Transmission No. 1, Transmission No. 2, etc., in accordance with a time schedule, the programme from the first zone being recorded and then transmitted at the most suitable times to the other zones. In 1935, a sixth transmission was added, primarily intended for evening listening in western Canada, but serving also North America generally and giving an early morning service to India.

THE LONDON REFRACTION HOSPITAL.

Mr. Brier has just returned to Brisbane after a mod successful career in London. We share his wishes for an early founding of Australia's first Refraction Hospital.‐Editor.

Obituary notice

Micaiah John Muller Hill was the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel John Hill and was born at Berhampore, Bengal, on February 22, 1856, during the stormy days of the Indian Mutiny, in which he narrrowly escaped death. He was educated at the School for the Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath, and entered University College, London, as a student in October, 1872. His academic career in London was one long sequence of brilliant successes and at the same time an arduous struggle against financial difficulties which he could overcome only by winning such scholarships as the College and the University of London had to offer in those days—rare and coveted distinctions which fell to the lot of very few. In 1874 he took his B. A. degree in London, obtaining the first place in the Mathematical Honours List, a feat he accomplished in only two years and which he followed up in 1876 by winning the Gold Medal in the M. A. Examination. By this time he had entered as an undergraduate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1879 he was Fourth Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman. He then returned to University College for a few months as assistant in the Department of Mathematics, and in 1880, at the age of twenty-four, was elected to the Chair of Mathematics at Mason College, as it then was, now the University of Birmingham.

LONDON

<h3>The St. Andrews Institute for Clinical Research</h3> The St. Andrews Institute for Clinical Research was established in 1919 by Sir James Mackenzie. After a successful consulting career in London, he found that his practice did not supply opportunities for the prolonged observation of patients which he deemed necessary for his investigations. In the height of his fame, he retired to the small and remote university town of St. Andrews in Fifeshire, where the population is small and has less tendency to drift away than in the larger centers. He had started medical life as a general practitioner, and had passed a large part of it in manufacturing towns, where he laid the foundations of his researches, which have revolutionized cardiology. But he had always had an original outlook also on symptomatology in general, as his extensive writings show. He holds that our knowledge of disease is very defective on fundamental