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British Quakers: David Lean, Helen Bright Clark, William Weston Young, Helena Cobban, Scilla Elworthy, Kathleen Lonsdale, Jonathan Fryer |
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English |
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Paperback |
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134 |
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2010-05-20 |
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1156409268 |
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Books LLC |
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0.45 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: David Lean, Helen Bright Clark, William Weston Young, Helena Cobban, Scilla Elworthy, Kathleen Lonsdale, Jonathan Fryer, Silvanus Bevan, Eric Baker, John Hargrave, Margaret Bright Lucas, Donald Swann, Gerald Priestland, Thomas Baylies, Thomas Sinton, Edward H. Milligan, Lionel Penrose, the Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, Cedric Smith, Adam Curle, Charles Frederick Carter, Maynard Sinton, Richard J. C. Atkinson, John Fielden, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Estella Canziani, Laurence Lerner, Dorothy Nimmo, Stephen Peet, John Grubb Richardson, Symon Hill, Robert Spence Watson, David Boulton, William Pollard. Excerpt: Adam Curle (4 July 1916 28 September 2006) was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the town where he was born, L'Isle-Adam , north of Paris . Background Curle's father was Richard Curle, a journalist and writer and friend of Joseph Conrad . His mother was Cordelia Fisher. One of her sisters, Adeline, married the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams . He was also related to the historian Frederic William Maitland , the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , Virginia Woolf and the artist Vanessa Bell . Curle attended Charterhouse School and subsequently studied anthropology at New College, Oxford . He married Pamela Hobson in 1939 and the couple had two daughters, Christina and Anna. Curle and Hobson divorced some years later. Career After serving in the British army during World War II and rising to the rank of Major , Curle worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. He subsequently became an academic, working as a lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford and then, from 1952 onwards, as professor of education and p...
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