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Setlocenia
Setlocenia was a celtic goddess. She is known from a single 2nd century inscription from the fort of Alauna, close to the modern town of Maryport in Cumbria.

Inscription
The inscription on an altar reads:

Deae Setlo- ceniae Labar- eus Ge v.s.l.m

To the goddess Setlocenia Labareus, a German, freely and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Etymology
Kenneth Jackson states that the name Setlocenia is derived from the Brythonic for 'long life'.

SC
Cultural Recovery fund and Treasury future fund

Significant owners and managers? (Secret Group Ltd (eyeroll))

Crowdfunding through Crowdcube https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/secret-cinema-crowdfunding-business-model-1234987811/

John Charles Moody
John Charles Moody (1884 - 1962) was a British artist and printmaker

Humespeak
right|thumb|Humespeak was associated with the late [[John Hume, seen here in Derry in 2008]]

Humespeak is language associated with the Northern Irish politician and Nobel laureate John Hume.

Peoples Network
Flagship New Labour digital initiative

Swan Hunter
Has no obvious relationship to Joseph Swan but appears to have been co-founded not by Charles Sheridan Swan but by his widow who is not named either in his article or the Swan Hunter article. He died in 1879 and Swan Hunter was not formed until 1880.

This is surprisingly elusive. Swan's marriage entry is at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=32143932:7534&d=bmd_1561977596

Ken Lo
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F251680 https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/14/obituaries/kenneth-lo-81-an-ambassador-of-chinese-cuisine-to-the-west.html http://kenlosmemoriesofchina.com/ - his restaurant https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenneth-lo-1596450.html

Artistic Woodwork strike
1973 strike in Toronto.

Ian Milligan calls it "one of the nastiest and most significant strikes – both in terms of the police violence, which shocked many, as well as the sheer number of strike supporters – in Toronto’s history"

http://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/viewFile/5613/6476 http://twhp.ca/timeline/

Edna Mosely
http://exploredesign.archiveshub.ac.uk./person/index.html?id=%2Febd%2Fperson%2Fhttp%253A%2F%2Fdata.archiveshub.ac.uk%2Febd%2Fid%2Fperson%2FMoselyEdna Architect with work represented at Britain Can Make It exhibition

Virginia Dignam
Virginia Dignam (1926 - 2012) was an actress, film critic and poet. Dignam wrote film criticism for the Morning Star (British newspaper) for over 30 years and was Honorary Secretary of The Critics' Circle.

Dignam was born Pearl Virginia Smith in Wales in 1926.. Married Derek Kirby, of Kirby's Flying Ballet. Married a second time to the Shakespearean actor Mark Dignam (1954).

Film critic of the Morning Star in the 1950s(?) into the 1980s. Fond of Confessions of a Window Cleaner, apparently: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/remembering-penelope-houston This article calls Houston (and by extension Dignam) "part of a pantheon of women who dominated journalistic film criticism in the 1950s" and refers to Dignam specifically as "a challenging populist".

Still reviewing 1981 (see Richard Woolley (filmmaker)) Still reviewing 1983 - Novyi Vavalon, Jaws 3D Still reviewing 1986 - Caravaggio - https://cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=53052

Also a poet ('Ginny Lewis'). Married to actor Mark Dignam. http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1471:dignam-mark&catid=4:d&Itemid=19

https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/phillip_bergson/addio_virginia_dignam

Can back issues of Morning Star be searched online anywhere?

Cats [[Category: 1926 births] [[Category: 2012 deaths] [[Category:Welsh journalists] [[Category:Welsh film critics] [[Category:Welsh actresses] [[Category:Women film critics] [[Category:Morning Star journalists]

Listeria bot
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=301 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list

John Alfred Prestwich
http://www.victorian-cinema.net/prestwich http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b954e14e3

Parents?

Talbot Wilfrid Ellison
Cartoonist
 * http://www.thenationalfootballcollection.org.uk/tw-ellison-tottenham-way/
 * https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/assetbank-nationalarchives/action/search?newSearch=true&quickSearch=true&includeImplicitCategoryMembers=true&keywords=copy+1%2F350
 * http://www.original-political-cartoon.com/cartoon-gallery/artists/ellison-talbot-wilfrid-1875-1947/

Albert Richard Whitear
Albert Richard Whitear (1906 - 1989) was a British artist and illustrator.

Life
Whitear's comissions included work for British Rail and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. He also worked as a book illlustrator and worked on many titles for children.

He was a member of the Artist Partners agency whose roster included Reginald Mount and George Him.

Works
Works by Whitear are held by the UK's Science Museum and National Archives.

More Malins
(Patricia Brent is based on a novel by Herbert George Jenkins who is also the publisher of Malins book. His address at the foundation of Garrick - namely living at his club - suggests his marriage has already broken down.

Amy Sergeant notes the connection at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17460654.2014.981051 p.415)


 * Seems to be in Royal Naval Reserve? - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31365/page/6652 (Sub-Lieut)
 * Hanging with the Canadians? - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30745/supplement/7042 (Hon Lieut)
 * But probably not here - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31090/supplement/15251

George Ercole
Pathe Wounded in Russia WO 372/6/214864 (refused medal) Melman, 'Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace'

https://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/videos/48310 (1920s)

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/inside-the-gates-of-soviet-russia-1 - with Arthur Ransome http://www.britishpathe.com/video/surrender-of-black-sea-fleet

Phil Karlton
Philip "Phil" Lewis Karlton (February 28 1947 - June 20 1997)

Born in Los Angeles.

Studied Lakewood Senior High School, attended University of California Santa Barbara

Self appointed "Netscape Principal Curmudgeon"

Died in a motor accident in Italy

worked for Xerox at Palo Alto Research Center, for Digital Equipment Corp. at its Western Research Lab, for Silicon Graphics, for Netscape (1995-7)

Worked on X Windows (for Unix)

Married Janice Marie Berthiaume after 3 dates in 1968

http://karlton.hamilton.com/mercury.html http://www.nndb.com/people/400/000031307/

(Two problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things]

Henry Chapman
Henry Arthur Chapman (1844 - 1915)

born in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in 1844. Swansea photographer and elected Mayor in 1892. Also portrait painter. http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4395 (see NLW website and Discovery)

Harry Boot
Mention Tizard Mission (and quote about 'most valuable cargo') Image at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Original_cavity_magnetron,_1940_%289663811280%29.jpg 5000 times more powerful

Stringing content together
Stitching together film related assets


 * Discovery
 * YouTube (BFI Beta, Inview?? https://www.bfi.org.uk/inview/title/6173 - is Drifters)
 * Wikipedia
 * Screenonline
 * Other BFI databases
 * Colonial Film (British Instructional Films is at http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/production-company/british-instructional-films)
 * VIAF

Categories of information

 * Biographical
 * Synopsis
 * Financial
 * Related files
 * Assets (stills, video, scripts etc.)
 * Shopping information
 * Newspaper reports
 * Reviews

Some tag urls
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tagdetails/38142528-1dce-4d5b-af31-3c7f36ac8e83
 * John Grierson

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tagdetails/0bf81e18-3e61-46ec-9d9f-690acc01f06b
 * Humphrey Jennings

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/humphrey-jennings-1360

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tagdetails/460583c1-f578-4d12-84b6-4098c0934669
 * Harry Watt

Leopold Manderstam
Leopold Herman Manderstam (1903 - 1984)

Born Riga (c.1900) joined Bolsheviks as a teenager but subsequently imprisoned. Graduated University of Riga, student at Jena and Sorbonne. Emigrated to South Africa, worked for General Mining.

Recruited by SOE - served in Angola, Portugal, Spain. Subsequently appointed head of Russian section.

(All above details from Manderstam website www.manderstam.com/history-major-manderstam.html)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XHs2-DmdIRIC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=leopold+manderstam&source=bl&ots=QetYH_zRUF&sig=fTcGkA2eV471T3-SS71kKQGavJE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JBEdUda5A6mw0QXqkID4Bg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=leopold%20manderstam&f=false

Dealing With the Devil: Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During the Second World War Donal O'Sullivan

Nickname 'Len' Born 1903. Riga was then part of Imperial Russia. Served in Red Army Took over Russian section 1st May 1944 Originator of 'Mamba' scheme - "intimately involved" with repatriation of Soviet POV and protested their forcible repatriation "He understood Soviet actions much better than his superiors"

Operation Mamba appears to be detailed at length in HS 4/330.

Major in SOE.

Autobiography "From the Red Army to SOE"

Founder Manderstam International Group - engineering consultancy.

Awarded CBE, 25 January 1945 (WO 373/97/17)

HS 6/985 HS 6/698 HS 6/624 - Hess hypnotism memo in Foxley file (see Seaman and Kershaw, p.26)

Notes from Treasury file T 1/12216
Pictorial Propaganda Committee

Established July? 1918

Minister of Information[Lord Beaverbrook], Lord Rothermere, CFG Masterman and Sir Alfred Mond and Sir Martin Conway “specially to represent” the IWM

Scheme 1 for “a particular picture” from an “artist of high standing” Scheme 2 for the total output [“Heaven forbid!”] of “artists of lesser importance” for an annual salary. Scheme 3 artists given “facilities to visit the front” and Ministry in return receives “first option to purchase sketches and pictures”

“Under scheme 1 it is proposed to include the following artists:

John S Sargent RA | John Singer Sargent Professor H Tonks | Henry Tonks A McEvoy | Ambrose McEvoy CJ Holmes | Charles Holmes - article does not mention war work Anna Airy P. Wilson Steer | Philip Wilson Steer Walter Bayes

“The arrangements under scheme 2 are intended to refer to the following:-

W. Roberts Paul Nash John Nash Colin Gill Alfred Hayward Muirhead Bone John Wheatley WT Wood James McBey Gilbert Ledward

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[Subsequent document]

“Scheme 1. Artists at work”

CJ Holmes John S Sargent [paid £800] Henry Tonks George Clausen P. Wilson Steer Walter Bayes Ambrose McEvoy

“Preliminary negotiations”

Augustus John Henry Lamb DY Cameron Charles Sims Glyn Philpot Darsie Japp - example painting here Bernard Meninsky [omitted from subsequent list but later stated as commencing work 1 Sept 1918.] Anna Airy Dorothy Coke Mark Gertler Sir John Lavery JW Morrice

“Scheme 2. Artists at work”

Muirhead Bone John Nash Paul Nash W Roberts Gilbert Ledward John Wheatley Alfred Hayward Colin Gill WT Wood [all ticked] Henry Rushbury [unticked but included in subsequent list] James McBey [ticked – McBey was working from probably January 1918 judging from the file. He was a Lieutenant in Palestine] Sir William Orpen [remainder unticked] Wyndham Lewis T Derrick “(status not yet defined)” WB Adeney

“Preliminary negotiations”

Stanley Spencer Eric Kennington CRW Nevinson | Christopher R. W. Nevinson AN Lewis Randolph Schwabe [“at work” in subsequent list] AJ Munnings Harold Squire CS Jagger [“at work” in subsequent list] | Charles Sargeant Jagger

Scheme 3

Flora Lion John Everett F Dobson Harold Harvey JD Fergusson | John Duncan Fergusson - article doesn't mention war work WW Russell | Walter Westley Russell

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Letter to Treasury from MoI, September 4th 1918

“Pictures are used by the Ministry as propaganda in one or both of two different ways: (1) for purposes of reproduction, and (2) for purposes of exhibition….The commissioning of pictures…was instituted in the early days of official propaganda in this country and successful exhibitions have been given in the leading cities and towns of Great Britain of the work of Muirhead Bone, Francis Dodd and James McBey. An exhibition of paintings of William Orpen, which were commissioned by this Ministry was recently held at the Agnew Galleries [in London?]. These pictures are now being exhibited at Manchester, and together with other paintings which are being borrowed from various sources, they will shortly be sent out to America for exhibition in New York, Washington, Boston and other important centres. A large collection of pictures has recently been sent to Switzerland for exhibition there; and at the joint request of the Prime Minister and Lord Beaverbrook, Sargent has agreed to paint a large piece on the subject of the Anglo-American Forces in France, which will in due course be exhibited…”

“It will be seen that pictures of this character, by reason of their authorship, their subject matter and their artistic quality will inevitably have an abiding value to the nation, and must, in due course, form a national memorial of immense interest and importance. In these circumstances, the Minister was forced to the conclusion that whilst his great object must always be to forward the ends of propaganda, it would be indefensible on his part to ignore the other aspect of the matter…in formulating his scheme the Minister has not been unmindful of the object of the Imperial War Museum.”

Letter, 28th October 1918

“It now appears that Mr T Derrick has been working under the Committee under scheme 2 since the beginning of the present month”

Letter, 4th November 1918

“Both bodies [IWM and MOI] have commissioned a considerable number of pictures and have artists working for them…”