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    • Dateline London

    • Dateline London
    • Immigrants - Great Britain ; London (England) - Social conditions
    • The author presents his own perception of London, a city of contrasts where he saw so many things he had only read about. Recently arrived from Jamaica, he found the British helpful and courteous, and his encounter with people of so many different...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Don Wilson making a presentation at the podium

    • Don Wilson making a presentation at the podium
    • Lecturers - Jamaica; College teachers - Jamaica; Wilson, Don; Barbara Gloudon; Forrester, Olive; Hearne, John.
    • Dr. Don Wilson, Lecturer in the School of Education, contributing to the panel discussion on “Issues and Problems in the Language Arts in Jamaica”, at the New Education Lecture Theatre, UWI Mona on August 30, 1984. The discussion was one of the...
    • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
    • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch (Copy 4)

    • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch (Copy 4)
    • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
    • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version has handwritten annotations.
    • Dudley Thompson Collection
    • Dudley J. Thompson- Book Launch (Copy 3)

    • Dudley J. Thompson- Book Launch (Copy 3)
    • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
    • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version also has handwritten annotations.
    • Dudley Thompson Collection
    • Lych Gate, Half Way Tree, Jamaica

    • Lych Gate, Half Way Tree, Jamaica
    • Lych Gate (Jamaica) ; Half Way Tree (Jamaica)
    • A Lych gate at a church in Half Way Tree. Lych gates consist of a roofed porch-like structure over a gate, often built of wood. The gateway was really part of the church. It was where the clergy meet the corpse and the bier rests while part of the...
    • Cousin Hereward Postcard Collection
    • Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity

    • Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity
    • Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940-Influence;Rastafari movement; Black nationalism-History-20th century; Blacks-Politics and government-20th century.
    • This paper examines the political aspects of the origins of the Rastafarian movement at a time when the Garvey movement was in decline in the 1930s. Its main intentions are to .underscore ways in which Garveyism has affected the evolution of...
    • Rupert Lewis Collection
    • Hot water

    • Hot water
    • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
    • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Ed is coming home

    • Ed is coming home
    • Marriage; Man-woman relationship
    • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits to their neighbour of a man...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Night shudders over all

    • Night shudders over all
    • Man-woman relationship; Marriage; Infidelity
    • Night time seems to bring to fore all sorts of events and behavior as people reach out for life or try to make sense of it. The author presents some examples, including: the wife who suspects her artist husband of philandering with his latest...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Start of something again

    • Start of something again
    • Man-woman relationship; Interpersonal relations; Hurricanes
    • Duckett and Silver meet regularly at their favourite restaurant to talk about art and politics as the city grows restless in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. During this time, Silver is flirting dangerously with a married woman right...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Christmas Eve

    • Christmas Eve
    • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
    • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Storm Warning

    • Storm Warning
    • Hurricanes
    • A hurricane is approaching and already the heavy rains are causing physical destruction and severe hardship for the people. For example, Silver has a terrible toothache and because of the storm he is unable to get to the dentist; Pinkie, desperate...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • The Talisman

    • The Talisman
    • Love; Man-woman relationship
    • He decided that the wonderful almost mystical bonding between them as lovers had to be broken, and to him fell the unpleasant task. He felt that he had given his all to the affair while to her it was not serious but something she could set aside...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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