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Until 1990s, Diving Lucy, like most Mitchell & Kenyon films, was unknown; only a few films by the producers were thought to survive, mostly consisting of Boer War re-enactments.


 * "Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and into the 90s I had monitored the probability that . . . some film material was probably still stored in the 40 Northgate property . . . Then [in November 1995] ... the appearance at auction of some of these films occurred... when 70 small boxes, mainly of enacted material (dramas and comedies) were bought by The Cinema Museum. [In] June 1994 ... [I received a message from someone that several] specimen rolls of 35mm had been brought in to him, which he wanted me to look at. On examination, these were all stylus-inscribed at the 'head', were typically 50' to 100' in length and clearly M&K because they had been found in the cellar of 40 Northgate. This building had been unoccupied for about eighteen months . . . and contractors employed to strip it out totally . . . In the cellar had been found three metal drums ... crammed solid with film, and if I didn't 'rate' them they were going into the ...skip! . . . curbing my excitement, [I] arranged for the three drums to be delivered to me. My main concern was that they should be stored in as stable and secure an environment as I could - in ..."

3 separate collections...  "Precise dates for the discovery of the latter films are hard to estimate. When the collections were auctioned at Christie's in November 1 995 and February 1 997, the provenance of the material was not stated, but it is reliably reported that this was so. Therefore, it is only a deduction from unsubstantiated secondary evidence that the smaller collections were found in the premises at 40 Northgate. The sixty-five titles now preserved by the Cinema Museum in London were largely fiction, while the remaining small batch of five rolls of films were purchased by Lobster Films (Paris)."

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 * Odd books with gHits/JSTOR etc.
 * How To Be Danish
 * The Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book
 * The Invention of Curried Sausage
 * The Biggest Birthday Cake in the World
 * The History of Milk Prices


 * Barrie Edgar
 * Independent Obit
 * Gardeners' World date
 * 1955 co-director for an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor
 * Terry Wogan's opinion of him
 * Inviting Terry Wogan to Come Dancing
 * Didn't entirely approve of Strictly Come Dancing


 * Desk dictionary
 * Schoolhouse Press Dictionary
 * Overview
 * Grades 3-8
 * Contains an introduction with an explanation of what a dictionary is, how to find a word, and what information is included in an entry

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JSTOR:, , , , [ http://www.jstor.org/stable/1586718], ,
 * The Gardeners' Dictionary
 * 1768 - 8th edition - moved to Linnean system of classification
 * Linnaues and Miller corresponded with each other, and Linneaus described him as "the Prince of Gardeners"
 * Written by Philip Miller, Head Gardener of the Chelsea Physic Garden between 1722 and 1771 >The History of Gardens By Christopher Thacker, p. 234.
 * First published in 1724
 * Several expanded editions issued during his lifetime (8 editions during lifetime)
 * An abridged version of the Dictionary was published, appearing in 6 editions
 * Also applicable for farmers, botanists and others working with plants
 * Not very influential as a work on gardening, but important in terms of influencing the classification of plants in Britain
 * An expanded edition in four volumes was published posthumously, edited by Thomas Martyn, professor of botany at Cambridge University
 * Writing in the journal BioScience in 1977, F. G. Meyer: the "standard British horticultural reference book of the 18th century...The 8th edition is still a basic reference for plant taxonomists"
 * First published 1731?
 * German, French and Dutch translation
 * "first and only comprehensive manual of practical gardening in Europe"
 * Listed every known plant species found in Britain, in alphabetical order, with information about propagation and cultivation of each species
 * Also included some of the medicinal properties of the species
 * Popular in America as well ; Miller had cultivated plants from all thirteen colonies
 * Thomas Jefferson had a copy
 * Frequently consulted by George Washington, who had an interest in agriculture and gardening, keeping a copy on his study table
 * Sometimes erroneously punctuated as "Gardeners' Dictionary" or "Gardener's Dictionary".
 * Between 1755 and 1760, Miller published a companion volume entitled Figures of the most beautiful, useful and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, with 300 copper plates by artists such as Georg Ehret. Some of the illustrations in this book were used by the Chelsea Porcelain Factory for decorating their wares, an example of which can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Subsequent worklist:
 * The English Schoole-Master
 * The Petroleum Dictionary

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Robin Hyman joined Evans Brothers in 1955 and became production manager in 1957. He was made a director of the firm in 1964, became deputy managing director in 1967, and managing director in 1972. He left Evans Brothers in 1977 to form his own company, Bell & Hyman, after buying the long-established firm of George Bell. In 1986 Bell & Hyman merged with Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman, which was sold to HarperCollins in 1990. A publishing legend: Sir Stanley Unwin (1884-1968) MORE to over nine hundred volumes, and— significantly for the future prosperity of Bell & Hyman, and later Unwin Hyman-copyright in the first edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Bell continued as a family firm through six generations until 1977, by which time it was largely resting on the laurels of its long tradition of literary publishing plus a strong mathematics list. At that point Robin Hyman had been working for Evans Brothers for just over twenty years, moving up the ladder to become managing director in 1972. When his offer to buy George Bell on behalf of Evans was rejected he made a second offer in his personal capacity and was accepted. He therefore founded a new company, Bell & Hyman, which, with financial help from a merchant bank, bought Bell's. By a shrewd blend of internal expansion based on efficient management— his young team of directors, including finance director Patric Duffy, played a major part— and growth by acquisition, Bell & Hyman had become, by the time of the Unwin merger, a small but flourishing business, with a turnover of £3 million. Acquistion had progressed in three stages. In 1981 Bell & Hyman bought over two hundred titles— a strong secondary science list and a range of practical titles— from Mills & Boon. Two years later Robin Hyman was negotiating with Lord Lever, the owner of his old firm of Evans Brothers, to buy six hundred titles, many of them educational, but also some adult non-fiction. After another two years came his only purchase of a complete company— University Tutorial Press, an old-established educational publisher based in Cambridge. The company was now 'developing nicely', in Robin Hyman's words. He had turned away various offers of mergers or acquisitions and was preparing to concentrate on internal expansion when Ray ner Unwin's offer came 'out of the blue— over lunch'. After lengthy consideration Robin Hyman felt convinced that the offer was too exciting to turn down— and so Unwin Hyman

Joan Whitehouse Meets Robin Hyman of Evans, The Publisher, 181 (1968), pp. 18-19. at 36, robin hyman is Deputy Managing Director of Evans Brothers Limited. Thirteen years ago, after National Service and with a degree in English, Robin Hyman joined Evans. Before university, he had gained some book experience through a variety of jobs and found particularly valuable his time with the booksellers, W. J. Bryce of Museum Street, Bloomsbury. Certainly he learnt 'more about new bookselling from Ivan Chambers than from anyone else.' In 1 95 5, on leaving university, Robin Hyman contacted the Employment Group which the Publishers Association ran at that time and, as a result, received fifteen letters from publishers - including one from Evans. He joined the firm on the promotion side of the Education Department and recalls that his first job was to write the blurb for the 1955 edition of The Year Book of Education. He counts himself Pictorial Science fortunate that, from then on, Evans gave him the opportunity of working on several sides of the business and, even more so that he has emerged, as he says, 'nearer the top than the bottom. His break-through came when he moved to the Production Department in 1956. At that time there was a crisis in the Department, the Manager being ill and his Senior Deputy having left to become Production Manager of Chatto & Windus Ltd. In 1957, the Directors of Evans took, Robin Hyman says, 'a major gamble' in appointing him Production Manager at the age of twenty five. He held this position until 1964 when he was appointed a Director, although by then his work had expanded considerably from production to editorial and other activities. In recent years he has travelled widely for Evans, his travels including visits to five African countries, the United States and Canada. Last year, at the age of 35, he became Deputy Managing Director. Many readers will remember Robin Hyman's late father, Mr. Leonard Hyman, the antiquarian bookseller who, helped by his wife, after the loss of all his stock in a 1940 air raid, specialised in the field of rare books and manuscripts on music selling to librarians and musicians all over the world. Books have always formed the background of Robin Hyman's life but, when the opportunity came to take over the bookselling business on his father's retirement in 1961, he decided to continue with Evans. He was then 29 and well established in the firm. Robin Hyman and his wife Inge are Jacket of the flrBt Issue of the new Journal 'Pictorial Science' published by Evans In October, joint authors of a number of children's books and live with their fifteen month old son James, in Hampstcad Garden Suburb. James' cot is surrounded with pictures from one of the books that his parents wrote jointly, Barnabas Ball at the Circus, and soon he will be turning the pages of Runaway James and the Night Owl another story another story written around the glowing pictures of Yutaka Sugita, the Japanese artist. Robin Hyman's Dictionary of Quotations, which took five years of spare time writing, has already sold over 50,000 copies and has four productions — The Modern Dictionary of Quotations, published by Evans, The Pan Dictionary of Famous Quotations, (Pan Piper), and the American Quotation Dictionary, published in hardback by Macmillan, New York, and in paperback by Collier Books, New York. More recently, Robin Hyman - in collaboration with John Trevaskis - has been working in his spare time on a four- book Word and Meaning series for children of about 6 to 8, and this was published last year. The main book is the Boys' and Girls' First Dictionary, with colour illustrations, and this has sold over 30,000 in the first year. Writing is done late at night or during weekends for the Hymans also play tennis, visit the theatre, and enjoy music and a wide circle of friends. Robin Hyman is very much aware that the circumstances and events of hislife have led him - he makes it appear effortlessly - to a very crowded but satisfactory existence. Robin Hyman's rapid rise to the top is indicative of the way things are moving at Evans. [PAGE 19] In the early years the firm was managed by the two Evans brothers. Robert, (later Sir Robert), and Edward. In more recent years, the active manage-, ment was in the hands of Mr. Noel Evans, (son of Mr. Edward Evans) and Mr. John Browning, (who married one of Sir Robert Evans' daughters), joint managing dircctots until Mr. Noel Evans' death in 1964, when Mr. Browning became Chairman and Managing Director. He is, of course well-known in publishing circles and his many trade activities include being on the Council of the Publishers Association and membership of the Central Executive of the Periodical 1 Proprietors Association. He is Chairman of the Publishers Association Industrial Training Committee and has just been appointed by the Secretary of State to be a member of the Training Board for the Printing and Publishing Industry. Educational Publishing With the expansion of Evans there is now a staff of nearly two hundred ; the fact that since 1964 there has been only one family director working full time in the firm has resulted in considerable responsibility devolving to Robin Hyman as Deputy Managing Director. The other full-time Directors are Mr. C. T. Quinn-Young, who joined Evans in 1956, after many years as Director of Education in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, and who has been responsible, in particular, for Evans enormous expansion in the field of educational publishing in Africa;  and Mr. Edward Hague who recently joined the firm from Morgan Brothers Ltd., as Director in charge of the ten educational periodicals which include Teachers World, Pictorial Education and Child Education. The latest, Pictorial Science, a monthly with full colour, has just been launched. Mr. Hague is at present Chairman of the Trade and Technical Council of the P. P. A. The Board o'f Evans also has the advice of Sir James Waterlow, Bart, who has had a lifetime of experience in printing and publishing. The Directors are backed by a strong team of experts in the many fields of Evans' activities, several of them astonishingly young. Susan Perl, Publicity Manager who has........." -->