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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Kingsley Amis
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(1922-95, kt 1990) Novelist and poet, whose disgruntled anti-establishment hero in *Lucky Jim brought him immediate fame and an honorary place (rejected by Amis himself) in the media-created group of *angry young men. His later novels both celebrate and mock the appetites of the middle class and middle-aged. The Old Devils won the Booker prize in 1986, and The Green Man (1969) was adapted as a television series in 1990 with Albert Finney in the central role.
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Amnesty International (London WC1) In 1961 a British lawyer, Peter Benenson, wrote an article in the Observer announcing the launch of Appeal for Amnesty, the aim being to campaign for the release of political prisoners – defined as those imprisoned for their beliefs who had not used or advocated violence. Thirty years later there are branches of Amnesty in nearly 50 countries, and it is the world's leading pressure group and source of information on torture and the violation of human rights, publishing annually the Amnesty International Report. It also campaigns against capital punishment.
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