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From Flock Beds to Professionalism:
a history of index-makers
Preface by David Crystal
Presents brief biographies of
65 index-makers since the 15th century
Outlines the history of indexing groups and societies to 1995
Hardcover with dust jacket
6 x 9 inches, 340 pages
ISBN 978-0-9552503-4-7
£49.00
co-published by HKB Press in the UK
and Oak Knoll Press in the US
It is difficult to express the breadth of this book. ... Hazel Bell has embraced the profession of indexing and made it visible and entertaining. - LOGOS
You will be amazed at the wealth of fascinating information contained within this beautifully written and produced book. - The Indexer
For anyone interested in the development of professions associated with publishing, it is a useful compendium of information in convenient book form. - Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders
Indexing in the '60s, ff
DVD
A presentation for the conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers,
"The Practice of Indexing", Sydney, Australia, 15-17 October 2009
Filmed by Aidan Bell in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, July 2009
Available in PAL or NTSC
41 minutes. £8.00; $15.00
Includes free copy of CD of the song, "The Indexer's Lament"
Hazel Bell recounts her experiences as an indexer from the 1960s, on the Council of the Society of Indexers from 1978 to 1995, and editing The Indexer during that period: three decades of the history of societies of indexers, illustrated with photographs and documents.
A
Stage Mother's Story -- We're not all Mrs Worthingtons!
by Hazel K. Bell
Published 21 August 2006
Price £8.00 paperback
92 pages
(includes free CD of Aidan singing 8 of his own songs)
ISBN 0-9552503-1-5 / 978-0-9552503-1-6
The story of how a son on his way to a musical theatre
career --
-- takes over the family garage as a children's theatre
-- fills the house with recording equipment and touring actors in sleeping
bags
-- casts a production of The Rocky Horror Show from home
-- tours the Continent in the rock musical, Hair
-- settles as an impresaro in Vienna
while his mother was compiling indexes, writing books and articles and
editing learned journals.
... very entertaining and informative ... a lovely little package.
-- Tregolwyn Book Reviews
... the utterly delightful story ... a fascinating and quite unique
insight into the life of a young actor ...
disarming and charming reminiscence. ... A perfect Christmas gift for any actor or parent of an actor.
-- Amateur Stage, November 2006
Kay
Macaulife: Women take the stage
edited by Hazel K. Bell
2003; £4.00
32 pages
ISBN 0-9543316-1-3
It provides an interesting picture of the interface between the amateur
and professional stage immediately after the Second World War, with
the list of her parts from 1947 to 1958 demonstrating the variety of
shows staged by the companies she appeared with. As well as personal
recollections of her performances, there are her own reminiscences of
being a film extra, the recording of a play, appearing as a contestant
in TV panel games, together with short extracts from her writing, much
of which was tailored for women's groups.
- from Theatre Notebook Volume 60 Number 1, 2006
As a writer, her style showed a keen observational eye . Had she been
born fifty years later, Kay Macaulife ... might well have become another
Lynda La Plante. In the context of her time, she created for herself
a pretty full life, ending it with a list of achievements that most
of her contemporaries would have been proud to boast.
- from Tregolwyn Book Reviews
Aged
thirteen in Felpham -- 1949
by Hazel K. Macaulife
2003; £3.00
12 pages
ISBN 0-9543316-2-1
a selection of entries from Hazel's 1949 diary ... represent a valuable
historical document as well as being entertaining to read.
- Tregolwyn Book Reviews
--Society of Indexers' Newsletter Spring 2007
A fascinating read for those interested in social history and English
life.
At
Chi High 1949-1951
by Hazel K. Macaulife
2006; £3.00
16 pages
ISBN 0-9552503-0-7
... a valuable social document ... if you thought Angela Brazil just
made it all up, think again!
- Tregolwyn Book Reviews
Diary
of a Reading University Student
by Hazel K. Macaulife
2007; £2.00
8 pages
ISBN 978-0-9552503-5-4
It is another valuable record of English social history in the mid-twentieth
century.
- Society of Indexers' Newsletter No. 3, Autumn 2007
Say
It With Flowers and other sketches
by Hazel K. Bell
2006; £3.00
24 pages
ISBN 0-9552503-3-1
..........978-0-9552503-3-0
... a book of sketches, nine in total, all of them amusing and all
of them very short ...
- Tregolwyn Book Reviews
No
Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church
(with the Barbara Pym Society)
edited by Hazel K. Bell
2004; £5.00 + 80p P&P
115 pages
ISBN 0-9543316-6-4
http://www.barbara-pym.org/nosoftincense.html
... the entertaining and often learned contributors to this symposium
... This book is essential reading for Pym fans.
-- The Tablet, 21 May 2005
All lovers of the novels of Barbara Pym will want it on their bookshelf.
...helpful and enlightening
-- Green Leaves: The Journal of the Barbara Pym Society,May 2004
This volume is a happy dipping book for fans.
-- The New Criterion, May 2005
... detailed and intensively-researched articles ... it is difficult
to read any of these articles without laughing out loud at least once.
-- Tregolwyn Book Reviews
The Frederica indexes: Cumulative Indexes to A. S. Byatt's novels
The Virgin in the Garden / Still Life and Babel Tower / A
Whistling Woman
By Hazel K. Bell
2007; £6.00
21 pages
ISBN 0-9552503-6-6 / 978-0-9552503-6-1
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