• Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO, OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist...
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  • Mass-Observation project were three former students from Cambridge: anthropologist Tom Harrisson (who left Cambridge before graduating), poet Charles Madge and filmmaker...
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  • Observation. Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson. Lindsay Drummond, London, 1938. Britain, by Mass-Observation. Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson. Penguin Books, London...
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  • Savage Civilisation by Tom Harrisson was published in January 1937 by Victor Gollancz. The book is a mixture of history, ethnographical account and travel...
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    Anne Hilda Symonds (née Harrisson; 22 August 1916 – 6 February 2017) was an English broadcaster on culture and politics for the BBC World Service. Symonds...
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    Barbara Harrisson (born Barbara Veronika Gertrud Maria Elisabeth Güttler, 20 May 1922 – 26 December 2015) was a German-British art historian who also...
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  • in the jungles of Borneo. An inspiration for the main character was Tom Harrisson. Schoendoerffer originally conceived the story as a film project, but...
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  • industries, and ceramic workshops, have been directed by this information. Tom Harrisson started the excavation work at Kota Batu in 1952–1953, and there were...
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  • publication for two years. Hearing of Sandin's talents as a writer, Tom Harrisson, the then Curator of the Sarawak Museum, invited Sandin to join the...
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    with it is rice with salt." On another account by the anthropologist Tom Harrisson, who spent much of his life in Borneo and interviewed natives about...
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  • climate change on Great Britain. BBC Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist 1x60 min Biography of Tom Harrisson. BBC Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile...
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    breakdown induced by an intense rivalry with ethnologist and explorer Tom Harrisson. This experience profoundly altered his view of anthropology, changing...
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    operations: Operation Agas in North Borneo; and Operation Semut in Sarawak. Tom Harrisson, a British anthropologist, journalist and co-founder of Mass-Observation...
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    (to the south of Kuching, near Bau and Lundu areas). In the 1950s, Tom Harrisson, the curator of Sarawak State Museum was searching for evidence of ancient...
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    para la historia de España, v.78–79. Madrid: Impr. de Miguel Ginesta. Tom Harrisson, Brunei's Two (or More) Capitals, Brunei Museum Journal, Vol. 3, No...
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  • Harington – British India Edward Harris – US Colin Harrison – England Tom Harrisson – Argentina/England Ernst Hartert – Germany Gustav Hartlaub – Germany...
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    Bornean treepie was named after him as Dendrocitta sinensis tuckeri by Tom Harrisson and C.H. Hartley in 1934 but this is no longer considered a valid subspecies...
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    been rejected because it was not feasible at that time. In July 1942, Tom Harrisson, who had been an Oxford Sarawak Expedition leader in 1932, drew another...
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  • in Mass-Observation during the war, and published War Factory with Tom Harrisson in 1943. With Jeffrey Barnard, she was co-presenter of a BBC2 documentary...
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    DC: Air Force History and Museums Program. ISBN 978-0-16-049781-0. Tom Harrisson (1976). Living through the Bliz. William Collins, Sons. ISBN 0-00-216009-9...
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    was to change only in 1936 when the RSPB was taken over by Tom Harrisson and others. Harrisson was instrumental in the organization of pioneering surveys...
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    sumatrensis harrissoni, was named in honour of the British polymath Tom Harrisson, who worked extensively with Bornean zoology and anthropology in the...
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  • cartographic artist Günther Hake (1922–2000) Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994) Tom Harrisson (1911–1976) George F. Jenks (1916–1996) Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907–1996)...
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  • Springer Science & Business Media. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-306-45844-6. Tom Harrisson (1976). Living Through the Blitz. Cambridge University Press. p. 42...
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    a boat with the traditional Red Feather of War up the Baram River. Tom Harrisson, the Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching and leader of resistance...
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    was created as a separate service from the USAAF on 18 September 1947 Tom Harrisson, one of the leaders of the Mass-Observation project, which collected...
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    and it soon became an important trade item at Brunei. According to Tom Harrisson, writing in the first (1960) edition of The Birds of Borneo: It is likely...
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  • project was set up in 1937 by Charles Madge, a poet and journalist and Tom Harrisson, an anthropologist to 'record the voice of ordinary people'. They recruited...
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  • University Exploration Club expedition to Sarawak in Borneo organised by Tom Harrisson. During this trip, he made the first ascent of Mount Mulu. In 1934 Shackleton...
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    Rebecca Catz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226669519. Tom Harrisson, Brunei's Two (or More) Capitals, Brunei Museum Journal, Vol. 3, No...
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