• George Ewart Evans (1 April 1909 – 11 January 1988) was a Welsh-born schoolteacher, writer and folklorist who became a dedicated collector of oral history...
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    of the artist David Gentleman and his second wife Susan Evans, daughter of George Ewart Evans. Gentleman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent...
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  • Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans. The son of George Ewart Evans and Florence Ellen Knappett, he was educated at Friends'...
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  • American author known as Max Brand George Bird Evans (1906–1998), American author, artist and dog breeder George Ewart Evans (1909–1988), Welsh-born schoolteacher...
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  • of several folklorists and historians, among them J. M. McPherson, George Ewart Evans, and Hamish Henderson. Although a number of these scholars initially...
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  • for the Children's Film Foundation. The storyline was developed by George Ewart Evans following a formula already developed by the CFF. Spoilt children...
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    subject of the book Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay by the historian George Ewart Evans. It describes rural life in the village. Thomas Weyland (~1230–1298)...
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    two daughters and a son by his second wife Susan Evans, the daughter of the writer George Ewart Evans. His and Susan's daughter Amelia, a Guardian journalist...
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  • and baseball coach George Evans (bandleader) (died 1993), English jazz bandleader, arranger and tenor saxophonist George Ewart Evans (1909–1988), Welsh-born...
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    History of British Birds. This is a homage to the oral historian George Ewart Evans of Blaxhall, a village near to Charsfield, who used the Bewick image...
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    William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ˈɡlædstən/ GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting...
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    was born in Abercynon. Dai Dower, ABA flyweight boxing champion. George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian. Howard Radford, a former goalkeeper...
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  • Wills & Hepworth: Loughborough. 1960 – The Horse in the Furrow, by George Ewart Evans. Faber & Faber. 1960 – Something for Nothing: Twelve Essays, by Alison...
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  • Christopher Thomas Ewart Ewart-Biggs, CMG, OBE (5 August 1921 – 21 July 1976) was the British Ambassador to Ireland, an author and senior Foreign Office...
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  • and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer. George Ewart Evans, 78, British writer and folklorist. David Gaines, 40, American environmentalist...
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    a permanent exhibition of the life and works of Welsh folklorist George Ewart Evans. Since 2011 the museum site has hosted the Stowblues Festival. The...
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  • stranger (children's story), 1968 The Leaping Hare (non fiction with George Ewart Evans), 1972, 'another classic beast-book'. Woodbrook (memoir), 1974 Danny...
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  • The papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue. George Ewart Evans, Thea Thompson, Tony Green, Theo Barker and Patrick Saul, ‘The Leicester...
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    dozen eggs on the ground under the scythe, which has just lifted. George Ewart Evans used the image on the title-page of his 1956 book about Blaxhall (near...
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  • Maugham, George Ewart Evans, Gareth Hughes (a first cousin), Gwyn Jones, Gwyn Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Brian Forbes, Emyr Humphreys, Clifford Evans, Emlyn...
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  • Survivors' Centre interviews, the collection of oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans, BBC Listening Project collection, Oral History of British Science...
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  • Evans, rally driver 31 December - Holly Holyoake, singer January - George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian, 78 26 January - Raymond Williams,...
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    early work by Niall Griffiths, Deborah Kay Davies, John Sam Jones, George Brinley Evans, and a first time in print for a story by Rae (Rachel) Trezise. Parthian...
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    Oral History about Framsden has been captured by authors such as George Ewart Evans in Where Beards Wag All, by Robert Simper in Family Fields and more...
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  • Gwynne Evans, 1904–1952; James William McBain, 1882–1953; Sydney Glenn Preston Plant, 1896–1955; Humphrey Rivaz Raikes, 1891–1955; Ralph William Ewart Stickings...
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  • Thomas, Wales national rugby player (date of death unknown) 1 April – George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian (died 1988) 11 May – Aneirin Talfan...
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    on 3 December. The audience included the sitting prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone. According to the accounts of his coworkers in the reading room...
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  • - William Ewart Gladstone Wendy Williams - Emmeline Pankhurst David Lyn - Sam Evans Richard Beale - Lord Kitchener Terence Brook - George V Shane Connaughton...
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    David Murray, Derek Bailey, Douglas Ewart, Alfred Harth, Evan Parker, Fred Anderson, Frederic Rzewski, Gil Evans, Han Bennink, Irène Schweizer, J. D....
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    20th century 21st century George I George II George III George IV William IV Victoria Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II Charles III...
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