Bronson (film) Bronson (film) Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson. The film follows the life of this notorious prisoner, known for violent attacks against other prisoners, guards, and governors in prison; protests, armed robbery, and art. He was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter, for his bare-knuckle fighting years. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson became known as one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous prisoners. Because of his violence, Bronson was repeatedly put into isolation or
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI) is a learned society for members with interests in proper names, including place-names, personal names, and surnames relating to the British Isles. The Society's president is Carole Hough. The SNSBI is the successor to the Council for Name Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, which was set up in the 1960s to bring together scholars who were working in the field of onomastics in the British Isles. Membership of the council was originally by invitation, but in the late 1980s it was