After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

Davies suggests that the texts of Welsh law, traditionally codified by Hywel Dda at Whitland, were first assembled in book form under the aegis of Rhys.

* October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.

* English scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse

Kenneth Williams Unseen by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, the first Williams biography in 15 years, was published in October 2008.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

For her first few years, she and her mother were dependent upon the charity of her father's wealthy bachelor brother Solomon Davies Warfield, president of the Continental Trust Company.

David Ivor Davies ( 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951 ), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

In the Doctor Who Annual 2006, a section by Russell T Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships ( used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war ), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel " Damaged Goods ", written by Davies ).

Dangerous Liaisons was the first English-language film adaptation of Laclos's novel, and was based on Christopher Hampton's Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated theatrical adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Howard Davies and featuring Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson.

For the following campaign Ron Davies arrived to score 43 goals in his first season as Saints scored 74 league goals, conceding 92.

IR only emerged as a formal academic ‘ discipline ’ in 1918 with the founding of the first ‘ chair ’ ( professorship ) in IR-the Woodrow Wilson Chair at Aberystwyth, University of Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), from an endowment given by David Davies, became the first academic position dedicated to IR.

In 1973, Davies attempted suicide by overdose following the breakup of his first marriage ; he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

Melodic variety is created by transposing the module in accordance to the harmonic sequence, as Rick Davies observes in his detailed analysis of the first moña:

The first is a concise one due to James Davies.

Initial training on the LVTs was done at the FMC factory under the auspices of the first Amphibian Tractor School, led by Major William W. Davies.

The Ayres Davies Lens Exhibit Building houses one of the finest collections of restored Fresnel lenses in the world, including the rotating first order Fresnel lens from the Cape Canaveral lighthouse and the restored original Ponce Inlet lighthouse first-order Fresnel lens.

The first modern historians to deal with the reign of Edward II – William Stubbs, Thomas Frederick Tout and James Conway Davies – added little to the understanding of Gaveston.

* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

* September 17 – Jack Llewelyn Davies, one of the ' Lost Boys ' for the Peter Pan book ( b. 1894 )

But her violent death marks the start of an increasingly bleak and violent chain of events ( influenced by co-writer Nick Davies ' documentary book Dark Heart ) which in spite of the director's denial that the film had " serious parallels " to Shakespeare's play, actually mirror aspects of its plot closely.

According to Robertson Davies in his book The Manticore, the Canadian arms had toned down the genital aspects of the lion and the unicorn, who in previous times had been represented with what Davies called " saucy pizzles.

John Whitgift, the archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that Hall's satires, along with works of Thomas Nashe, John Marston, Christopher Marlowe, Sir John Davies and others should be burnt, on the ground of licentiousness ; but shortly afterwards Hall's book was ordered to be " staied at the press ," which may be interpreted as reprieved.

In his footsteps followed Thomas L. Thompson with his lengthy Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources ( 1992 ) and, building explicitly on Thompson's book, P. R. Davies ' shorter work, In Search of ' Ancient Israel ' ( 1992 ).

Davies was responsible, alongside artist Mike Machat, for the book series An Airline and its Aircraft, about selected airlines ' histories, including the types flown.

Several sources, including Nicholas Davies ' book Queen Elizabeth II: A Woman Who Is Not Amused have attempted to cast doubt on whether Phillips fathered his daughter Zara.

On Vickers's attribution it was omitted from the 2007 RSC Shakespeare Complete Works, a decision Jackson called a mistake in his RES review of Vickers's book, arguing, among other reservations, that " Evidence that, in poems undoubtedly his, Davies exhibits an intimacy with Shakespeare's works equal to that of the author of ' A Lover's Complaint ' is very meagre.

* David Davies, famed chief test pilot of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority and author of classic book Handling the Big Jets ;

In his 1991 book The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, Hersh wrote that Nicholas Davies, the foreign editor of The Daily Mirror, had tipped off the Israeli embassy in London about whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu.

The last is mentioned in Robertson Davies ' book The Manticore, where he interprets the legend in Jungian psychological terms.

Under its previous editor, Derek Davies, the Review had carved a name for itself for the excellence of its economic reporting, its refusal to be cowed and its wide-ranging book reviews.

In September 2010 he began a three part documentary series Alan Davies ' Teenage Revolution ( Channel 4 ), partly based on his autobiographical book My Favourite People and Me, 1978-88.

The book also mentions Arsenal F. C., the football team supported by Davies ; he recalls his mother sewing their club badge and captain's number on to his shirt, as a child, only a year or so before she died.

The book includes " 400 diagrams and cartoons by the brilliant Ted Dewan ", another Foreword by Stephen Fry and a " Forepaw " by Alan Davies.

Robertson Davies ' interest in psychology has a massive influence on the actions in the book.

* Roger Davies ( Harry Potter ), fictional character in the Harry Potter book series

In his book Witchcraft, Magic, and Culture Owen Davies describes the witches ' mark as an " established folk belief during the early modern period ".

* The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life ?, a book by Paul Davies

Journalist Nick Davies criticized the PCC for failing to investigate the vast majority of complaints on technical grounds in his book Flat Earth News ( 2008 ), an expose of modern British newspaper journalism.