Culture of Manchester an early author of police procedural novels. Procter's "Hell is a City" (1954) is set in a fictionalised Manchester, later filmed in the city with lead roles for Donald Pleasence and Stanley Baker. Anthony Burgess (born 1917), author of "A Clockwork Orange", was born and educated in Manchester. "Little Wilson and Big God", the first volume of his autobiography, includes a detailed account of his early life in the city between 1917 and 1940. Howard Jacobson, born in Prestwich in 1942, an area with a strong Jewish community, has written about post-war Manchester in "The Mighty Walzer" (1999) and "Kalooki
Blue plaque property developer David Pearl). Two members of the advisory panel, Professor David Edgerton and author and critic Gillian Darley, resigned over this transmutation, concerned that the scheme had been "reduced to a marketing tool for English Heritage". In April 2015, English Heritage was divided into two parts, Historic England (a statutory body), and the new English Heritage Trust (a charity, which took over the English Heritage operating name and logo). Responsibility for the blue plaque scheme passed to the English Heritage Trust. To be eligible for an English Heritage blue plaque in London the famous person concerned must: In cases