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- James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
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James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) [1] was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
Feb 4, 2016 · The study, headed by Dr Josie Billington, explored the emotional, social and psychological benefits to adults of regular reading for pleasure.
Jun 11, 2015 · Dr Josie Billington, from the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Nov 30, 2018 · A scholar, adviser to Presidents, friend to Members of Congress, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the 13th Librarian of Congress, Dr. Billington was in charge of the world’s largest repository of knowledge, the Library of Congress, from 1987-2015.
Josie Billington specialises in Victorian literature and in research on reading and health. Her publications include Faithful Realism (2002), George Eliot’s Middlemarch (2008), This is Living Art: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare (2012), and editions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters (2006), Margaret Oliphant's Novellas ...
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Apr 27, 2018 · Billington carefully sketches out the history of this movement, considering the significance of its veritable founder: the GP and psychotherapist Michael Balint. Balint studied the doctor-patient interaction and patients’ modes of explaining their ailments and problems to their doctor.
Jun 11, 2018 · Perspectives on Reading recently spoke with Dr. Josie Billington, a professor at the University of Liverpool who specializes in Victorian literature. She also serves as the deputy director of the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society, an organization that explores the role literature and reading plays on mental and physical ...
