June 2019

1914 in Art

Giorgio de Chirico – The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street August Macke – Farewell StanisÅ‚awa de KarÅ‚owska — Swiss Cottage Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Potsdamer Platz Giacomo Balla – Mercurio transita davanti al sole Franz Marc – Animals in a Landscape Fernand Léger — Nature morte (Still life) Pablo Picasso – Ma Jolie Oskar …

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The Christmas Truce & The Football Match

One of the most widely-known stories of the first world war is the Christmas truce. The British soldiers hear the Germans singing ‘Silent Night’, they venture out into no-man’s land, exchange gifts and have a game of football. Much of this story appears to be true, though it is important to remember that the front …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 11 (1903)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 22nd June 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another journey back in time with original recordings from the year 1903. This episode features sounds from as far afield as Tanganyika, Moscow, Kyoto and New York, and songs about cars, ducks, and bread and marmalade. Introduced by James Errington. Listen to the show on …

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Mark Bostridge – The Fateful Year: England 1914

The date was Bank Holiday Monday, 3 August 1914, and it was destined to be a day of final, irrevocable and fateful decision. Even as the camera shutter fell, preserving this carefree scene, the larger issues of peace and war continued to hang in the balance… Nearly thirty-six hours later, Britain would declare war on …

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Martha, The Last Passenger Pigeon

On September 1st 1914, Martha, the last passenger pigeon in existence died. Three hundred years before, when the first settlers were arriving in North America, it was the most common bird in the continent, with up to 5 billion individuals. The story of the passenger pigeon is that of colonial destruction and contempt for the …

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BBC WW1 – Month of Madness

There will be a lot of coverage here of the early part of the first world war, as there are so many fantastic resources available. The BBC in particular launched into the project of making something new about these years with such a degree of creative enthusiasm that it set vastly unrealistic expectations for the …

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