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Bretton Hall College Of Education
Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds. The college merged with the University of Leeds in 2001 and the campus closed in 2007. History In 1949 Bretton Hall College, a teacher training college founded by Alec Clegg specialising in innovative courses in design, music and the visual and performance arts, opened in the historic Bretton Hall in West Bretton, Yorkshire. It became an affiliated college of the University of Leeds, which validated its degrees. The college had financial difficulties, and, with the support of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), merged with the University of Leeds in August 2001. Most of the music, fine art and teacher training courses were moved to the Leeds campus, but visual and performing arts education and creative writing remained at the Bretton site, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bretton may refer to: Places England * Bretton, Derbyshire * Bretton, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire *Monk Bretton in South Yorkshire *West Bretton in West Yorkshire *Bretton Hall College of Education *Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire *Monk Bretton Priory, South Yorkshire Wales * Bretton, Flintshire Other uses * Bretton (name), list of people with the name * ''Bretton'' (EP), a 2008 record by Lower Than Atlantis * Bretton's, former Canadian high-end department store See also * Bretton Woods (other) * Bretton Hall (other) * Bretten (other) * Brenton (other) * Breton (other) Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people **Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany **Breton (horse), a breed **Galet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatie Edney
Beatrice Edney (born 23 October 1962) is an English television actress. Born in London, she is the daughter of actress Sylvia Syms and her husband Alan Edney. Her brother is Benjamin Edney and her cousin is musician Nick Webb. Edney first came to audiences' attention as Heather MacLeod in the 1986 film ''Highlander'', the first entry in the ''Highlander'' series. She returned to the role again in the 2000 film ''Highlander: Endgame''. In 1987, Edney performed the title role in the television production of ''The Dark Angel'' with Peter O'Toole. In 1990, she appeared in the Bruce Beresford film '' Mister Johnson'', alongside Pierce Brosnan and Edward Woodward. Her many television appearances include a leading role in the 1986 television series ''Lost Empires'', based on the novel by J.B. Priestley, in which she acted alongside Colin Firth. She has also appeared in episodes of a host of successful British television dramas such as ''Rosemary & Thyme'', ''A Touch of Frost'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lorcan
Tom Lorcan is an English television and film actor. Life and career He trained as an actor at Bretton Hall College before undertaking further training at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in Wood Green, North London. He has had a varied career in theatre, film, and television, and appeared in the 2016 movie ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''. The majority of his Theatre work has been in London's West End in shows such as '' Blood Brothers'', ''Jersey Boys'', '' Fiddler on the Roof'', ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' and the National Theatre production of ''One Man, Two Guvnors'', as well as the Theatre Royal Stratford East revival of ''Oh, What a Lovely War!'' with director Terry Johnson in 2014. In May 2022, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera ''Doctors Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Lightwood
Simon Robert Lightwood (born 15 December 1980) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield since the 2022 by-election, following the resignation of Conservative MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, who resigned following his conviction for sexual assault of a minor. Lightwood is also notable for being the last Member of Parliament to swear his Oath of Allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II, as his by-election was the last before her passing three months later. Early life and education Lightwood was born in 1980 and grew up in poverty in South Shields. After his family home was repossessed when he was aged 13, he was forced to live with his grandmother, away from his parents. Lightwood has a degree in theatre acting from Bretton Hall College and bought his first house in Wakefield. Early career Lightwood was a case worker for Mary Creagh, MP for the constituency from 2005 to 2019. He later worked for the National Health Service, and has served on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Leaman
Louisa Leaman (born 24 June 1976) is a London-based author. Her debut novel, ''The Perfect Dress'', published by Penguin Random House, is an uplifting contemporary romance about vintage wedding dresses. In the US it is titled ''The Second Chance Boutique'' and is published by Sourcebooks. It is also published in Germany, Italy and Spain. Leaman's second novel, ''Meant To Be'', was published in October 2020. As well as writing novels, Louisa researches and writes for the Victoria & Albert Museum website. Early life Louisa was born on 24 June 1976 and grew up in Loughton, Essex. She was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, then attended Leeds University, where she studied Art History followed by a PGCE teaching qualification in Secondary Art & Design. Career In 2004 Louisa won a writing competition in the ''Times Educational Supplement''. This led to a publishing deal with Continuum International Publishing), for whom she wrote five teaching/behaviour management guides. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kerrigan
Jonathan Kerrigan (born 14 October 1972) is an English actor well known for various leading roles on TV including '' In The Club'', ''Casualty'', '' Heartbeat'', ''Merseybeat, The Five'' and ''Reach For The Moon''. Films include '' Diana'', ''FLiM'', ''The Somnambulists'' ,''The Best Possible Taste'' and ''The Santa Incident''. He wrote and composed and starred in the short film, ''Fellow Creatures'' which has had some success in the festival circuit. He is also a musician and has composed for both television and film. Career He had his screen debut in the Chemical Brothers music video, "Life Is Sweet". In ''Peak Practice'' he played climber Ewan Harvey. From 1996 to 1999 he played a Project 2000 nurse, Sam Colloby, in BBC medical drama ''Casualty''. In 2001, as well as starring in '' Merseybeat'' as Police Constable Steve Traynor, Kerrigan also composed the theme tune. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Kavanagh
Christine Mary Kavanagh (born 24 March 1957 in Prescot, Lancashire) is an English actress. Career overview Kavanagh was educated in Brussels, and trained as a drama teacher at Bretton Hall College and as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She first appeared in The Onedin Line, followed by a BBC2 Playhouse production before appearing as Nicky in a 1984 episode of ''Minder''. In 1990 she played the lead in the first production (in Scarborough) of Alan Ayckbourne's ''The Revengers' Comedies'', opposite Jon Strickland. In 1985 she appeared in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Timelash''. She played Lucy Downes in the ''Inspector Morse'' ITV series, in the episode "The Wolvercote Tongue" in 1987, Barbara Hazlitt in a 1989 episode of '' All Creatures Great and Small'', and Dr Alison Wells in the 1991 series Chimera. In 1992 she played the part of Isabel Vandervent in the production of '' The Blackheath Poisonings'' produced by ITV. In 1994 she appeared as Penny Winter in ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Howells
Adrian Howells (9 April 1962 – 16 March 2014) was a British performance artist associated with one-to-one performance and intimate theatre. He performed in the United Kingdom and internationally (including in Israel, Singapore, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries). He was a pioneer of one-to-one performance, in which an artist repeats and adapts a score for a performance for a single audience member, or audience-participant, and repeats the action serially across a run of several days. The process and outcomes in Howells' signature works were frequently modelled on activities associated with the service industries or the tertiary sector of the economy, such as washing the audience-participant's hair or clothes, or giving an audience-member a bath, replicating in some ways the labour of a hairdresser, laundry worker, or caregiver; or he appropriated and adapted intimate interpersonal experiences in carefully mediated situations, like talking around a script or score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hutchinson (writer)
Roger Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British author and journalist. Hutchinson was born at Farnworth, near Bolton, in Lancashire, but lives on Raasay, off the east coast of Skye. Education Hutchinson attended Bretton Hall College in Leeds to study English. Career In the late 1960s, around the time he studied English at Bretton Hall College, he founded and edited 'Sad Traffic', published from a small office in Barnsley, which ran for five issues before morphing into Yorkshire's alternative newspaper, Styng (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip). He then moved to London and edited '' OZ'', '' International Times'' and the magazine '' Time Out''. In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the ''West Highland Free Press''. Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay. He has also served as editor of the '' Stornoway Gazette''. Books As of 2017, Hutchinson has written 15 non-fiction books. ''Polly, The True Story Behind Whisky Galore'' (1990) was about the SS ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Henry
Carla Henry is a British actress, most famous for her role as Donna in '' Queer As Folk''. She trained at Bretton Hall College. Her performances in stage productions such as ''Storm'' (Contact Theatre) and ''Habitat'' (Royal Exchange) and ''On the Shore of the Wide World'' have seen her tackle a wide variety of roles. She played Kristin in the 2012 production of ''Miss Julie'' alongside Maxine Peake, Joe Armstrong and Liam Gerrard at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and was nominated for a best supporting actress award in the Manchester Theatre Awards She played Castiza in Alex Cox's film ''Revengers Tragedy'' and also appeared in his television film ''I'm A Juvenile Delinquent - Jail Me!''. In 2013 she appeared in the BBC One drama series ''Frankie''. Selected theatre credits *''Romeo & Juliet'' (Birmingham Rep) *''On the Shore of the Wide World'' (Manchester Royal Exchange/National Theatre) (2005) *''Wedding Cane'' (Manchester Royal Exchange) *''Habitat'' (Mancheste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Hall
Esther Jane Hall (born 28 August 1970) is an English actress who has appeared in a number of television dramas. Early life Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts. Career Hall's first high-profile role was as Romey Sullivan in the television drama '' Queer as Folk'' (1999–2000), in which she played one half of a lesbian couple who conceive a baby with the help of their gay best friend. In 2001 she appeared in the award-winning TV drama ''Men Only'' as Katie, the wife of Mac (Marc Warren). Roles in ''Always and Everyone'' (2000–01), ''Serious and Organised'' (2003) and an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's ''Sons and Lovers'' (2003) followed. Hall played Ellie Simm, the girlfriend of main character Tom Quinn in '' Spooks'' from 2002 to 2003. In 2004 Hall starred in the second episode of the sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Godber
John Harry Godber (born 18 May 1956) is known mainly for observational comedies. The ''Plays and Players Yearbook'' of 1993 rated him the third most performed playwright in the UK after William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. He has been creative director of the Theatre Royal Wakefield since 2011. Biography Godber, born in Upton, West Riding of Yorkshire, trained as a teacher of drama at Bretton Hall College, which is affiliated to the University of Leeds, and became artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1984. Before venturing into plays, he was head of drama at Minsthorpe High School, the school he had attended as a student, and then wrote for the TV series ''Brookside'' and ''Grange Hill''. While he was at Minsthorpe he taught future actors Adrian Hood (''Preston Front'', '' Up 'n' Under'' film) and Chris Walker (''Doctors'', '' Coronation Street''). A 1993 survey for ''Plays and Players'' magazine cited Godber as the third most performed playwright in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
