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NOVEMBER 2014 MONTHLY BLOG/ 47 - WOMEN AND PUBLIC SPEAKING – AND WHY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO GET THERE
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MONTHLY BLOG 47, WOMEN AND PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WHY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO GET THERE. November 1, 2014. By Penelope J Corfield. It really wasn’t done for centuries. Women, respectable women especially, did not speak in public from public platforms. They do sometimes, anachronistically, in period films. So the script-writer of The Duchess. And he further explained: ‘I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.’. Nonetheless,...
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Theatre reviews by Penelope J Corfield. Includes Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov ...
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PJC WEBSITE REVIEW/8 – MR FOOTE’S OTHER LEG WRITTEN BY: IAN KELLY. January 3, 2016. By Penelope J Corfield. DIRECTED BY: RICHARD EYRE PERFORMED AT: THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET STARRING: SIMON RUSSELL BEALE Review of play seen on 30 December 2015 If in the early twentieth century Sarah Bernhardt in her 70s could move audiences to tears, whilst wearing a wooden prosthetic leg,1 why could not Samuel Foote in his 50s stir eighteenth-century audiences to […]. Read more →. December 31, 2015. By Penelope J Corfield.
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2015 August | Penelope J Corfield Blog
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Archive for month: August, 2015. MONTHLY BLOG 56, MORE POST-ELECTION MEDITATIONS: ON CHANGING THE LABOUR PARTY’S NAME. August 1, 2015. By Penelope J Corfield. Raising questions about the name of a proud political party with over a century of history behind it makes one appreciate all over again the force of continuity (or it can also be called inertia) in history. That’s because most people, when invited to consider whether Britain’s Labour Party is rightly named,. It seems to have been an isolated sugge...
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MONTHLY BLOG 21, HISTORICAL PERIODISATION – PART 1
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MONTHLY BLOG 21, HISTORICAL PERIODISATION – PART 1. July 1, 2012. By Penelope J Corfield. At stake was not the question of whether we can generalise about different and separate periods of the past. Obviously we can and must to some extent. Even the most determined advocate of history as ‘one and indivisible’ has to accept some sub-divisions for operative purposes, whether in terms of days, years, centuries or millennia. Is history rightly divided into successive stages? Studies like H.O. Taylor’s. Are t...
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MONTHLY BLOG 53, ELECTION SPECIAL: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE OLD PRACTICE OF OPEN VOTING, STANDING UP TO BE COUNTED? 1
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MONTHLY BLOG 53, ELECTION SPECIAL: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE OLD PRACTICE OF OPEN VOTING, STANDING UP TO BE COUNTED? May 1, 2015. By Penelope J Corfield. Generations of democratic activists have campaigned over centuries to give the franchise to all adult citizens. (Yes, and that right should extend to all citizens who are in prison too). Vote early and be proud to vote! So, if we are full of civic pride or even just wearily acquiescent, why don’t we vote openly? Stand up to be counted? Ing from the onlooker...
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Notices by Penelope J Corfield: obituaries, memories & tributes
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OBITUARY: LILIAN (LILY) ROSE HARRISON, NÉE PARKER, MBE (1924-2015). June 14, 2016. By Penelope J Corfield. From Battersea Labour Party Annual Report (2015), pp. 23-4 Lily Harrison had a strong, feisty, ‘giving’ personality, with an intense civic commitment to the Shaftesbury Estate community in particular and to Battersea in general. In another generation, when opportunities for working-class women were greater, she would have taken a front-seat role. But she did more […]. Read more →. February 14, 2014.
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MORE POST-ELECTION MEDITATIONS: ON CHANGING THE LABOUR PARTY’S NAME
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MONTHLY BLOG 56, MORE POST-ELECTION MEDITATIONS: ON CHANGING THE LABOUR PARTY’S NAME. August 1, 2015. By Penelope J Corfield. Raising questions about the name of a proud political party with over a century of history behind it makes one appreciate all over again the force of continuity (or it can also be called inertia) in history. That’s because most people, when invited to consider whether Britain’s Labour Party is rightly named,. It seems to have been an isolated suggestion. And, at any rate, it w...
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JUNE 2014 MONTHLY BLOG/ 42, CHAIRING SEMINARS AND LECTURES
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MONTHLY BLOG 42, CHAIRING SEMINARS AND LECTURES. June 1, 2014. By Penelope J Corfield. The aim is to get everyone involved in a really good discussion, aiding the speaker and the seminar/lecture participants alike. By ‘good’, I mean critical but supportive. Any criticisms, of course, should be directed at the paper, not at the speaker: as in football, kicking the ball, not the person. Okay, that sounds pretty easy. How best to promote the desired result? While the speaker is talking, I usually make a men...
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