Julian Medford Budden 1924–2007

Author(s):  
Pierluigi Petrobelli ◽  
Roger Parker

Julian Medford Budden (1924–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was the finest scholar of nineteenth-century Italian opera of his generation. He will be remembered for his achievements as a producer at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), for his broadcasts and reviews, and above all for his books on Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. Indeed, his passing leaves a huge gap in the field of opera studies. Budden was born in Hoylake, near Liverpool, on April 9, 1924, the only child of Lionel Budden and Maud Budden. In 1951 he started at the BBC, where he remained for his entire working life. Budden's first post was as a clerk and script editor; he then rose through the ranks to become a producer, Chief Producer of Opera, and finally External Services Music Organizer. Two aspects of Budden's background were likely to have been fundamental to his scholarly achievement: his exposure to Classics at Oxford University and his career in BBC Radio.

2021 ◽  
pp. 096777202110010
Author(s):  
Peter J Selley

Thomas Shapter spent almost all his working life in Exeter, Devon. He lived to be 93 years old. He is remembered primarily for his book describing the 1832 epidemic of cholera in Exeter in which 402 people died.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-308
Author(s):  
Chitra Joshi

Aditya Sarkar, Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay, Oxford University Press, 2018, 359 pp., ₹1,195.


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