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Roedean School

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Roedean School is an independent day and boarding school founded in 1885 in Roedean Village on the outskirts of Brighton, East Sussex, England, and governed by Royal Charter. [1]

95 relations: Adèle Geras, Alison Adburgham, Anglo-Norman language, Anna Campbell, Anthropologist, Anthropology, Atonement (novel), Barbara Calder, Beatrix Ong, Birgit Cunningham, Blandings Castle, Boarding school, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Brighton Marina, Bunduki, Call the Midwife, Church of England, Cicely Saunders, Common Entrance Examination, Cowan Bridge School, Devil May Care (Faulks novel), Doctor Who, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, East Sussex, Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester, Enid Marx, Galahad at Blandings, Girls' Schools Association, Girton College, Cambridge, Guerrilla warfare, Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, Henry Venn Elliott, Hermione Cockburn, HMS Vernon (shore establishment), Honeysuckle Weeks, Hotel Babylon, House system, Independent school (United Kingdom), Independent Schools Council, Independent Schools Inspectorate, Jani Allan, Jessica Hsuan, Jill Balcon, Jill Braithwaite, Johannesburg, John William Simpson, Katharine Whitehorn, Keswick, Cumbria, ..., Kurds, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, Lord Peter Wimsey, Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986), Lynda Chalker, Margaret Cole, Mike Carey (writer), Nancy Spain, Naseem Khan (activist), Newnham College, Cambridge, Noel Dyson, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Olive Willis, Paul Ogden Lawrence, Percy Shakespeare, Perdita Weeks, Philippa Tattersall, Phyllis Pearsall, Pigs Have Wings, Rebecca Hall, Rhona Mitra, Roedean School (South Africa), Roedean, East Sussex, Royal Navy, Rumpole of the Bailey, Sarah Miles, Sixth form, South Downs, Special Operations Executive, St Mary's Hall, Brighton, Tanya Streeter, Tessa Dahl, The Daily Telegraph, The Good Schools Guide, The Guardian, This Year's Love, Thunderbirds (TV series), University of Cambridge, Ursula Graham Bower, Vera Stanley Alder, Verity Lambert, Wilbur Smith, World War II, Zerbanoo Gifford, Zina Saro-Wiwa. Expand index (45 more) »

Adèle Geras

Adèle Geras (born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults.

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Alison Adburgham

Alison Adburgham (28 January 1912 – 23 May 1997) was an English journalist, author and social historian.

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Anglo-Norman language

Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French, is a variety of the Norman language that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the British Isles during the Anglo-Norman period.

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Anna Campbell

Anna Campbell also known as Hêlîn Qereçox (c. 1991–15 March 2018) was a British feminist and prison abolition activist from Lewes who fought with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Syria.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Atonement (novel)

Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement.

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Barbara Calder

Barbara Calder (19 July 1924 - 27 January 2018) was a pioneering British yachtswoman.

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Beatrix Ong

Beatrix Ong MBE is a London-based British luxury fashion accessories designer, known for her 'classic with a twist' shoes.

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Birgit Cunningham

Birgit Cunningham (born 6 January 1963) is an Anglo-American events organizer, activist, and campaigner for the rights of single mothers.

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Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove is a city in East Sussex, in South East England.

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Brighton Marina

Brighton Marina is an artificial marina situated in Brighton, England.

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Bunduki

Bunduki is a 1975 novel by J. T. Edson, and the first work in the Bunduki series that followed.

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Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Cicely Saunders

Dame Cicely Mary Saunders OM DBE FRCS FRCP FRCN (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer, involved with many international universities.

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Common Entrance Examination

Common Entrance Examinations (commonly known as CE) are taken by independent school pupils in the UK as part of the admissions process for academically selective secondary schools at age 13.

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Cowan Bridge School

Cowan Bridge School refers to the Clergy Daughters' School, a school mainly for the daughters of middle class clergy founded in the 1820s.

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Devil May Care (Faulks novel)

Devil May Care is a James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.

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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a county in South East England.

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Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester

Elizabeth Devereux Rochester (20 December 1917, date of death between 1981-1983 in St. Malo, France) was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section under the codename TYPIST (in French: DACTYLO).

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Enid Marx

Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx, RDI (20 October 1902 – 18 May 1998), was an English painter and designer, best known for her industrial textile designs for the London Transport Board and the Utility Furniture Scheme.

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Galahad at Blandings

Galahad at Blandings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 31 December 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, and in the United Kingdom on 26 August 1965 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

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Girls' Schools Association

The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) is a professional association of the heads of independent girls' schools.

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Girton College, Cambridge

Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

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Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistresses of 283 independent schools (both boarding schools and day schools) in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland.

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Henry Venn Elliott

Henry Venn Elliott (1792–1865) was an English divine.

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Hermione Cockburn

Hermione Cockburn (born 1973, Sussex, England) is a British television and radio presenter specialising in scientific and educational programmes.

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HMS Vernon (shore establishment)

HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy.

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Honeysuckle Weeks

Honeysuckle Hero Susan Weeks (born 1 August 1979) is a British actress known for her starring role as Samantha Stewart in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle's War beginning in 2002.

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Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon was a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One.

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House system

The house system is a traditional feature of schools in England, originating in England.

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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Independent Schools Council

The Independent Schools Council (ISC) is a non-profit organisation that represents over 1,300 schools in the United Kingdom's independent education sector.

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Independent Schools Inspectorate

The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) is an organisation responsible for the inspection of independent schools in England which are members of organisations affiliated to the Independent Schools Council (ISC).

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Jani Allan

Jani Allan (born 11 September 1952) is a South African journalist, columnist, writer and broadcaster.

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Jessica Hsuan

Jessica Hester Hsuan (born 18 August 1970), also known as Suen Huen, is a Hong Kong actress.

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Jill Balcon

Jill Angela Henriette Balcon (3 January 192518 July 2009) was an English film and radio actress, who was also known for her stage and television work.

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Jill Braithwaite

Jill Braithwaite, Lady Braithwaite (15 September 1937 - 10 November 2008) was a British diplomat and archaeologist.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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John William Simpson

Sir John William Simpson KBE FRIBA (9 August 1858 – 30 March 1933) was an English architect and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1919 to 1921.

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Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE (born 1928) is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women.

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Keswick, Cumbria

Keswick is an English market town and civil parish, historically in Cumberland, and since 1974 in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria.

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Kurds

The Kurds (rtl, Kurd) or the Kurdish people (rtl, Gelî kurd), are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan).

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Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds, who also appears in the film sequels Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation Thunderbirds.

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Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).

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Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986)

Lucy Ursula Griffiths (born 10 October 1986) is an English actress best known for her roles as Lady Marian in the BBC drama series Robin Hood (2006–09), as Nora Gainesborough, Eric Northman's vampire "sister", in the HBO horror series True Blood (2012–13) and as Emily Woodrow in the AMC supernatural drama series Preacher (2016–present).

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Lynda Chalker

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, (born 29 April 1942) is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Wallasey from 1974 to 1992.

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Margaret Cole

Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, DBE (née Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician and writer.

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Mike Carey (writer)

Mike Carey (born 1959), also known by his pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels, and films.

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Nancy Spain

Nancy Brooker Spain (13 September 1917 – 21 March 1964) was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist.

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Naseem Khan (activist)

Naseem Fatima Khan OBE, The London Gazette (Supplement 1), 12 June 1999, p. B11.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Noel Dyson

Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English actress.

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Noo Saro-Wiwa

Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British/Nigerian author.

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Olive Willis

Olive Margaret Willis (26 October 1877 – 11 March 1964) was an English educationist and headmistress.

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Paul Ogden Lawrence

Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence (1861–1952) was an eminent barrister and judge.

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Percy Shakespeare

Percy Shakespeare (born 28 February 1906 in Dudley, England; died 25 May 1943 in Brighton, England CWGC Casualty Record, Brighton County Borough, civilian war dead.) was an English painter.

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Perdita Weeks

Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks (born 25 December 1985) is a Welsh actress.

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Philippa Tattersall

Major Philippa Joan Angel Tattersall, nicknamed "Pip", is a Scottish soldier, born 1975 in Tarland, Aberdeenshire.

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Phyllis Pearsall

Phyllis Isobella Pearsall MBE (25 September 1906 – 28 August 1996) was a British painter and writer who founded the Geographers' A-Z Map Company.

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Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in Collier's Weekly between 16 August and 20 September 1952.

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Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is a British-American actress.

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Rhona Mitra

Rhona Natasha Mitra (born 9 August 1976) is a British actress, model, singer, and songwriter of half Indian, half Irish descent.

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Roedean School (South Africa)

Roedean School is a private day and boarding school for girls located in Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Roedean, East Sussex

Roedean is immediately to the east of the seaside resort of Brighton, England.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.

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Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles (born 31 December 1941) is an English theatre and film actress.

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Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

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South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.

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Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.

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St Mary's Hall, Brighton

St Mary's Hall, Brighton, Sussex, England, was an independent secondary girls' school from 1836 to 2009.

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Tanya Streeter

Tanya Streeter (born Tanya Dailey, 10 January 1973, Grand Cayman) is a British-Caymanian-American world champion freediver, inducted into the Women Diver's Hall of Fame in March 2000.

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Tessa Dahl

Chantal Sophia "Tessa" Dahl (born 11 April 1957) is an English author and former actress.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Good Schools Guide

The Good Schools Guide is a guide to British schools, both state and independent.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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This Year's Love

This Year's Love is a 1999 film set in and around Camden Town in London.

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Thunderbirds (TV series)

Thunderbirds is a British science-fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Ursula Graham Bower

Ursula Violet Graham Bower MBE (later known as U. V. G. Betts) (15 May 1914 – 12 November 1988), was one of the pioneer anthropologists in the Naga Hills between 1937–1946 and a guerrilla fighter against the Japanese in Burma from 1942–45.

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Vera Stanley Alder

Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder (29 October 1898 – 26 May 1984) was an English portrait painter and mystic.

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Verity Lambert

Verity Ann Lambert (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer.

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Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zerbanoo Gifford

Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and human rights campaigner of Indian Parsi origin.

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Zina Saro-Wiwa

Zina Saro-Wiwa is a video artist and film-maker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roedean_School

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