John Agard "Alternative Anthem"

Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell was born 16 June 1912 and died 8 February 1998. He was born in Birmingham where he lived the first six years of his life before moved to King’s Norton in 1918, where he lived until 1930. He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell and his wife Ellen Mary. His father was a schoolteacher and so was his mother. But she stops teaching, to learn Greek and take care of John Enoch Powell.

He was a British conservative politician. Before he went into the policy, he has an academy career as professor of Greek. In 1950 he came into The House of Commons, because the people elected him. In 1960 to 1963 he was the health secretary of England. 

- Kimmie Christensen

Anhøj: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Arthur and poet. He lived from 30 dec. 1865 to 18 jan. 1936. He was born in Bombay, but his family took him to England when he was 5 years old. Rudyard Kipling is known for his poems about British soldiers and histales for children. Best known is the jungle book. He is one of the most popular writers in England in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1907 Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, and today he is still the youngest to receive that prize. He is also known for his defending British imperialism. The text we had read in class is “The white man’s burden”. He also has a city in Canada, which has his name. It’s called, “Town of Kipling”. He got a D Litt. on the Durham and Oxford Universities in 1907, on the Cambridge University in 1908, on Edinburgh University in 1920 and on Paris and Strasbourg University in 1921. In 1924 he also got an honor PhD on the Athen University.

History of the British Empire