March 2019

Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 8 (1900)

A journey through the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we reach the 1900s, and hear Arthur Collins, Vess L Ossman, Arthur Pryor, and other stars of the late Victorian era. We even have a recording of Franz Joseph I of Austria & Hungary, made on a piece of wire. Join …

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1911 in Film

A Trip Through New York City Dante’s Inferno (L’Inferno) Little Nemo The Battle The Diabolical Church Window First Indy 500 The Lonedale Operator The Fall of Troy Enoch Arden David Copperfield Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen The Coffin Ship His Trust Coronation of King George V The Odyssey (L’Odissea) Alkali Ike’s Auto As A …

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Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census

If a certain war had not begun in 1914, the 1910s would likely be best remembered as a decade of progressive social unrest. Movements for workers rights and against racial segregation were now getting into full swing, and, in the UK especially, the period from 1910 to 1914 saw the most militant action of all …

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Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

1911 is an exciting time for literature, but I would venture that the most important event of the year was not Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s launch of the Futurist Manifestito, nor the publication of the first of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown novels, and not even Virginia Stephen, Leonard Woolf, Adrian Stephen, John Maynard Keynes and …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 7 (1898-1899)

This time, coming towards the end of the 19th Century, we present an overview of the music and history of 1898 and 1899 – minstrel shows, vaudeville, cakewalk, the horribly-named “coon songs” and an exciting new genre called “ragtime.” This is a one-off solo show from James, as Sean is ill, expect lots of talking …

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1910 in Art

Egon Schiele – Portrait of Eduard Kosmack Umberto Boccioni — The City Rises Wassily Kandinsky — Improvisation 7 Jean Metzinger – Deux Nus Albert Gleizes – La Femme aux Phlox Adolf Wölfli — Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain Christian Sass – Osterhusumer Wasser – und Windmühle Anagoria Henri Rousseau — The Dream Henri Matisse – Music Nicolae Tonitza …

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