Talk:Dennis Stevenson
At a glance i'd say the whole thing needs going over — I'll print it out and take it to the pub or something — even just the chronology.
I have a good big chunk on Manpower which really shows them up for what they are, the question is how long is this thing.
He was on Demos from the start and part of their initial advisory boad line-up although Tim Pendry doesn't seem to know where he came from — which is odd. Very odd.
Geraldine Bedell Independent on Sunday 24/1/93 says Stevenson on original advisory board — I don't see what your archive links really prove — Tim Pendry's lobster article also says he was orig. ad. bo. (note Pearson also funding Demos) we must use pendry's stuff
I have a good chunk on Docklands particularly on Wapping (Stevenson was the community relations PR guy for Docklands and a short time after the wapping Plant was built (designed as a fortress) and the battle ensued Stevenson joined BSkyB.
After reading it over: My opinion is that it's pretty bad as it stands — I can't say I can see all the reference material at the end understood and built into the text. Its all over the place chronologically and doesn't hit home with its facts — ie it doesn't relate them to a wider understanding. I wrote my bits when i was first trying to graps Stevenson's connections.
I think its possible to re-write in a lot more effective way. I'll print it out as it is and work on it over the weekend although I have a lot of stuff on — failing that I'll work on it next week in conjunction with the thinngs i've left hanging.
It could be good but its a mess at the moment — did you say you'd worked on it!
30 year rule?
Stevenson's activities on Independent Working Party may be available through public records Office now?? Anyone heard of Conrad Jameson Associates Limited? after v quick search
itle: A social research inquiry into the specification of old age homes Subtitle: preliminary findings. Corporate Author: (Prepared for) Cheshire County Council (by) Conrad Jameson Associates Ltd Publisher: Conrad Jameson Associates Ltd, London, 1972 Pagination: 42pp Year of Publication: 1972 Accession Number: CPA-930813135
More interesting is perhaps this paper in Warwick archives (Clive Jenkins papers)
MSS.79/6/CJ/1/9 Miscellaneous. Includes report on Labour Party membership by Conrad Jameson Associates (1968), draft and unreferenced submissions of evidence, statistics for Finance Panel report, letter to Political Education Panel from David Owen, MP, regarding interim report. 1968 December - 1980 June
and reference to work undertaken for EIU
The impact of advertising on the British mass media -- Curran 3 (1 ... Preliminary research report (mimeo), Conrad Jameson Associates; Economist Intelligence Unit (1966). The National Newspaper Industry: A Survey, EIU , London ...
The photocopy I took of the journal article has a pic of Stevenson 'Youth at the Helm'. Might not scan very well but we can see how it looks
anyone heard of Hydra (set up by SRU in 87, works from same office in St. John st.) has Rodney Baker-Bates http://www.burdettnursingtrust.org.uk/trustees.htm
also here's a contender for the man who made the tap onthe sholder Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FPP%2FLPW;recurse=1 King's College was stevensons camb. college and he's mentioned here - wilkinson worked for bletchley
