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Despite the poor condition of the original copy, the advertisement is still of interest nearly a century later because the onoto Pen company marked the Dickens Bicentenary with a commemorative issue of four limited-edition fountain pens named after eponymous Dickens heroes: chuzzlewit, copperfield, nickleby and Pickwick. another example of Dickens and other literary figures being used to promote writing materials may be found in advertising for the Brandauer pen company, established in Birmingham in 1862 and producing pens and steel nibs until 1961 when it moved to precision engineering and electronics work, on 24 January 1885, Brandauer used the image of charles Dickens, together with reproduced signatures of Dickens and other writers such as wilkie collins, Thackeray, carlyle and Trollope.

[...]he decided to devote his career to paediatric medicine. Krishna worked with Hutchison and Robert Shanks, forming a critical link between Glasgow’s neonatal services at the Southern General Hospital and Rotten Row Maternity Hospital, together with the Yorkhill co-located Queen Mother’s Maternity Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Some were from from Greenock Academy, doing their Duke of Edinburgh gold award medal; some were international students from Capernwray Bible school; and many others came from churches, etc.

This article examines a series of British travel documentaries on the American South made since 2008 which are representative of the way in which southern distinctiveness is maintained through television within a transatlantic context. The travelogues focus on historic racial struggles, southern food, and music, and frame the South as a distinctly historical space, where either historical moments obscure the contemporary South, or cultural continuity and resistance to change and modernity are celebrated. The article also discusses the similarities between the travelogues and the southern tourist industry, and how transatlantic “televisual tourism” works against the wider scholarly challenge to southern exceptionalism.

ITV’s doc went head-to-head with Love Productions’ My Baby’s Life: Who Decides? on C4, the first of two parts of which was set in Southampton Hospital and drew in 820,000 (4.7%), again well shy of 1.3m (7%) slot average. Location, Location, Location (Channel 4) 8pm-9pm 1.8m (8.9%) Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer travelled to York for the first in a new series of IWC Media’s property show, which topped last season’s 1.5m (8%) average and was ahead of the 1.5m (7.8%) C4 slot average, according to Barb data from overnights.tv It faced competition from Shine TV’s Masterchef, which kicked off its third week with 3.8m (19.2%), winning the second half of its 60-minute slot, while Michael Portillo’s Great Continental Railway Journeys was flat with last week’s 1.6m (7.9%) on BBC2.

Million Pound Drop showrunner joins C5 production arm The former showrunner of Million Pound Drop is to join Elephant House Studios to lead its entertainment and reality output. Cathedral commissions Elephant House, which produced more than 100 hours of programming for C5 in 2017, has secured a 6 x 60-minute series, Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson (w/t), in which the Time Team host will uncover the stories, communities and histories of the country’s most celebrated cathedrals.