The book was also nominated for the Warwick Prize for Writing ( 2008 / 9 ) and made it to the long list of that prize announced in November 2008.

His 2004 River of Gods is set in mid-21st-century India, and his 2007 Brasyl ( 2007 ), set in the 18th and 21st centuries in Lusophone South America, was nominated for, and reached the longlist of, the £ 50, 000 Warwick Prize for Writing.

* Brasyl ( 2007 ) – Hugo Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award, Nominated for the £ 50, 000 Warwick Prize for Writing

* Longlist of Warwick Prize for Writing for Brasyl

Mad, Bad and Sad was short-listed for the Warwick Prize and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, amongst others, and won several awards.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

Early in August we broke ground for a new $3,500,000 plant in Warwick, Rhode Island, which will house our textile and coil winding machinery operations.

In addition to expenditures on the Warwick plant, we have invested approximately $1,961,000 for machinery and equipment at Cranston, and for new machinery, plant and equipment at Leesona-Holt, Limited.

A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.

And for his playmate, Francis Coletta of West Warwick, who has a bit part, Billy.

With a business association established with two entrepreneurs, Edward Molton and Stephen Warwick, and with John Muggeridge from Conran serving briefly as an assistant, he set about working primarily for the music industry.

Using a peasant boy named Lambert Simnel, who posed as Edward, Earl of Warwick ( the real Warwick was locked up in the Tower of London ), he led an army of 2, 000 German mercenaries paid for by Margaret of Burgundy into England.

Kenilworth remained an important Lancastrian stronghold for the rest of the war, often acting as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick.

It was occasionally an effective tactic, but was unattractive for spectators and never became widely used except by a handful of specialists such as Fred Root, the Worcestershire bowler and Warwick Armstrong, the former Australian captain.

* 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

The word Oxbridge may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of social class ( referring to the professional classes who dominated the intake of both universities at the beginning of the twentieth century ), as shorthand for an elite that " continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment " while Woxbridge is seen in the name of the annual Woxbridge conference between the business schools of Warwick, Oxford and Cambridge.

Gorton received a separate charter for his settlement in 1648, which he named Warwick after his patron.

She later received another allowance, apparently for being engaged as nurse for Clarence's son, Edward of Warwick.

He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London ( then located in Somerset House ) and then, for a few months, at Warwick Grammar School ( now Warwick School ).

Roger Warwick left to set up an R & B big band for Freddie Mack.

He claims to be Edward, Earl of Warwick and challenges Henry VII for the throne of England.

* November 28 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.

There, they made an alliance with Margaret of Anjou, and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in an invasion, which took place in late 1470.

w: Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel | Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel ; w: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester | Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester ; w: Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk | Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham ; w: Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick | Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick ; and w: Henry IV of England | Henry, Earl of Derby ( later Henry IV ), demand w: Richard II of England | Richard II to let them prove by arms the justice for their rebellion

Kennedy currently lives in Glasgow and is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing with University of Warwick, having previously taught creative writing at the University of St Andrews.

* September 25 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer ( d. 2008 )

On October 18, 2008, Warwick's sister Dee Dee Warwick died in a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey.

In 2008, they published Cycling Legends 4: Warwick Dalton-The Lone Eagle.

* Warwick Dalton: the Lone Eagle ( New Zealand Cycling Legends 04 ) by John Rhodes and Jonathan Kennett ( 2008 )-ISBN 978-0-9582673-4-2

The 2008 competition was organised by Professor Kevin Warwick, coordinated by Huma Shah and held on 12 October at the University of Reading, UK.

He was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Warwick in July 2008.

Allotment Hut Booklets, Warwick, 2008.

" Warwick Avenue " is also the name of a song that makes reference to the station by Welsh singer Duffy, released as a single in the UK and Ireland in May 2008.

In January 2008, Mallett appeared at University of Warwick Students ' Union where he performed before a record audience of several thousand.

One forum for this was the " 2008 Warwick RIPE Debate: ‘ American ’ versus ‘ British ’ IPE " where Cohen, Mark Blyth, Richard Higgott, and Matthew Watson followed up the recent exchange in RIPE.

* Kevin Warwick, Cyberneticist & Roboticist ( Doctor of Science 2008 )

In the 1989 BBC television miniseries Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Reepicheep is played by Warwick Davis, who went on to play the part of Nikabrik in the 2008 film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

* Warwick Gould, ‘ Hopper, Eleanor Jane ( 1871 – 1906 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 2 Jan 2008

David and Jane were wed on 21 June 2008 at Warwick Castle in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.

RaW moved across the University of Warwick campus to University House in the Summer of 2008 as the Students ' Union was refurbished.

Some past recipients include Gene Bowen of Warwick, New York in 2008 who co-founded Road Recovery, a clinically acclaimed skills program designed for teens recovering from drug addiction and Stacy Maciuk of Brentwood, Tennessee in 2007 who organized a suitcase collection drive to provide foster children with a place to pack their clothes and possessions other than a garbage bag.

With the exception of several minor boundary adjustments with Elizabeth City County and York County, and the annexation by Newport News of the incorporated town of Kecoughtan ( formerly in Elizabeth City County ) in the 1920s, the boundaries of the city of Newport News as of 2008 are essentially those of Warwick River Shire when it was established in 1634.

Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, QPM ( born 19 March 1953 ) is a retired British policeman who held the position of commissioner of police of the metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service.

The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise positions Warwick 5th in the UK in business and management.

The Warwick MBA by distance learning was ranked 1st in UK and 2nd in the world by QS and it was ranked 3rd in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2008, whilst the Warwick Executive MBA was ranked 14th in 2006 by Financial Times.