Griffiths, T. (2005) Charles Allen Clarke (1863-1935), Socialist, Journalist, Novelist and Dialect Sketch Writer. In: Matthew, H. and Harrison, B. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, pp. on-line Brianna Robertson-Kirkland is Lecturer of Historical Musicology at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and she has a particular interest in historically informed performance practice, opera singers and singing, historical education and eighteenth-century studies. Her book, Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing: Scandalous Lessons was published in 2022. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney and at Chawton House. He has been writing for the theatre, television and cinema since the late 60s. His work has been seen throughout the world and he has won numerous awards. His best-known stage play, Comedians, has been in constant production around the world since its premiere in 1975. For his film Reds, written with Warren Beatty, he received the WGA Best Screenplay Award and an Oscar nomination. Other films have included Country directed by Richard Eyre and Fatherland directed by Ken Loach. Griffiths detailed in the disgusting messages how he first wanted to shower with the boy before performing sex acts on each other. Professor of Coastal and Marine Archaeology; Chancellor's Fellow- Global Challenges; Head of Archaeology Subject Area; Archaeology

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - 'Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain' project On January 15, Griffiths said the boy 'made him feel good inside and he feels happy and wants to know whether Mark loves him'. Griffiths, T. (2018) The talkies triumphant: Scottish cinema and the coming of sound. In: Caughie, J., Griffiths, T. and Velez-Serna, M. (eds.) Early Cinema in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 166-187 It's especially exciting to see one of our greatest dramatists anticipating two new productions – These Are the Times and Comedians – that will bring his work to a new generation. When he talks about watching John Light, the young actor who will play Tom Paine at the Globe, Griffiths is immediately energised. "He's wonderful," he says. "He works so hard, in rehearsal." To see him on stage, Griffiths says, "is like watching a turf fire".Griffiths, T. (2005) Power, Knowledge and Society in the City. Journal of Urban History, 32 (1)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144205279204 Through the Night was inspired by his first wife, Janice. "Around 1961, Jan wanted to start a family. We couldn't. It emerged that she had TB of the womb, so she had to have it removed." I was driving my three kids down to Southampton, to see the husband of the friend who'd gone to Cuba with Jan. They had four children. He told me, when I got there. It just broke us, as a family. It broke our lives. Sian was 11, Emma was 10 and Jess was nine. There was no funeral. We went to the grounds of Harewood House, near Leeds, the four of us. And we sat on this knoll where we used to have picnics, when..." Griffiths pauses. "When there were five of us."

She explained Griffiths is keen to engage with the probation service adding it is "certainly a fall from grace for a 61-year-old man with no previous convictions". Ms Wilde added that Griffiths was "confused about his sexuality" to which the judge commented "he's a little bit old for that" adding "he's got 24 grandchildren". Griffiths continued to work in the theatre, gaining success with the touring production of Oi for England (ITV, 17 April 1982). His television play, Country (BBC, 20 October 1981), set just before the Labour victory at the 1945 general election is "a not wholly unsympathetic study of a Tory family". [2] He wrote the television serial, The Last Place on Earth (ITV, 1985), the screenplay for Fatherland (1986) for director Ken Loach, and the play Piano (1990), an adaptation of a film. [12] Later career [ edit ] Griffiths, T. (2008) Scottish, Irish and Imperial Connections: Parliament, the Three Kingdoms, and the mechanisation of cotton spinning in eighteenth-century Britain. Economic History Review, 61(3), pp. 625-50DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00414.x

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journal article, 2020) – “Stanislavski’s creative state on the stage, A spiritual approach to the ‘system’ through practice as research”, Stanislavski Studies, Taylor & Francis Vice-Presidents – Mrs Eileen Cottis, Mr Ian Herbert, Dr Neville Hunnings, Dr Pieter van der Merwe MBE, DL Comedians was first presented at the Nottingham Playhouse on 20 February 1975, directed by Richard Eyre.

Griffiths, T. (2019) Making a living at the cinema: Scottish cinema staff in the silent era. In: Caughie, J., Griffiths, T. and Velez-Serna, M. (eds.) Early Cinema in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 68-90DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420341.003.0005 Caughie, J., Griffiths, T. and Vélez-Serna, M. (2018) Introduction. In: Caughie, J., Griffiths, T. and Vélez-Serna, M. (eds.) Early Cinema in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressDOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420341.003.0001 Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede's College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English. After a brief involvement with professional football and a year in National Service, he became a teacher. A Warrington grandad-of-24 offered a 'teenage boy' a McDonald's in exchange for a hotel stay where he planned on sexually abusing him.

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The Jenin play was never produced. There have been quite a few such disappointments in Griffiths' life – an extraordinary number, actually, when you consider that this man co-wrote the 1981 epic Reds, starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. Reds was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including best screenplay, and won three. Comedians, Griffiths' classic 1975 piece set in a night-school class for stand-up artists, made an international star of actor Jonathan Pryce after it transferred to Broadway. The play, set in Griffiths' native Manchester, remains the most powerful artistic contribution to the enduring debate as to where bold irreverence stops, and bullying begins, in that branch of theatre. He said: 'It's me, dear boy, it's me!' I told him I needed someone really working-class. I was thinking of [music-hall legend] Max Wall. But Wall said: 'This is the filthiest thing I've ever read in my life.'" (Comedians, now an A-level text, contains mild profanity.)