Alan Sillitoe's scientific contributions

Citations

... 1 The term 'bedsit' or 'bed-sitting room' was commonly used in the 1950s and 60s, for example in property listings in the back pages of local newspapers, to refer to furnished private lets, usually consisting of a single room that could include basic kitchen facilities and a wash basin. 2 See for example Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play A Taste of Honey (Delaney 1987), and the film adaptation directed by Tony Richardson in 1961. See also Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Sillitoe 1959), adapted to film by Richardson in 1962. ...