Creation of the latter was a Labour policy now adopted, without acknowledgement, by the Tories.
I wondered, in conclusion, whether he felt like a prophet without acknowledgement in his own land.
He was a shameless magpie who stole from everyone, often without acknowledgement.
In 1968 he saw one of his ideas surface without acknowledgement in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: a Space Odyssey.
Serious, systematic plagiarism, in which large chunks of text are reused without acknowledgement, is rare and these days and exposed in seconds.
This book's publishers and author, Barry Fantoni of Private Eye fame, call it an "affectionate homage" to Hawkey, although they admit it is used without acknowledgement or authorisation.
Professional comedians have been known to claim ownership over their jokes and to take action if other professionals use them without acknowledgement.
(Incidentally, the best and probably the longest piece in this book, his funny and poignant memoir of the Trinidadian vagabond David Cox, is republished without acknowledgement from a 2009 Oxfam anthology).
His play Coelina; ou, l'enfant du mystère (1800) was translated into English (without acknowledgement) by Thomas Holcroft as A Tale of Mystery and in 1802 became the very first melodrama to be seen in England.
Beyond that, he appeals to the idea – borrowed without acknowledgement from the socialist historian EP Thompson – of a "moral economy", meaning standards of acceptable behaviour that are espoused by ordinary people.
