Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 9th November 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another adventure into the history of recorded music with James Errington, this time joined by veteran BBC presenter & producer Tony Barnfield to listen to and talk about the sounds of 1908, right at the heart of the era when music hall and vaudeville dominated …
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January 1 – HMY Iolaire sinks off the coast of the Hebrides, 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. January 1 – The Czechoslovak Legions occupy the Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. January 3 — The Faisal—Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal …
John Nash – Oppy Wood, 1917, Evening Georgia O’Keeffe – The Flag Anna Airy – Women Working in a Gas Retort House John Hodgson Lobley – Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916 Joan Miró – La casa de la palmera Arkady Rylov – In High Azure Boris Kustodiev – The Merchant’s Wife Jean Metzinger – …
The Cook Father Sergius A Dog’s Life The Heart of Humanity Out West The Sinking of the Lusitania The Bond Are Crooks Dishonest? La dixième symphonie [The Tenth Symphony] Tarzan of the Apes The Bell Boy I Don’t Want To Be A Man Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley The Outlaw and His Wife The Blue Bird …
Over at BBC Radio 4’s Home Front website there is a fascinating article about the first Women’s international match, between England and Ireland in 1917 Mr Brennan has unearthed newspapers from the time which describe the match as “international” and report that it attracted 20,000 spectators. The Lord Mayor of Belfast kicked off the match …
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This isn’t a gif from a fiction movie – it’s actual footage from the first world war which has been cleaned up, extra frames added to bring it up to 26 per second, and then colorised. It’s the kind of thing which sets new standards for how we can use original sources to bring the …
The first and easily the most accessible of Joyce’s three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of the early life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictionalized version of Joyce who will later appear in Ulysses. Cut down from a gigantic experimental autobiography, the work took Joyce the best part …
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The death of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous “Mad Monk” of Russia is the stuff of weird history legend. The story passed down by his assassin (and mentioned in the less accurate account given by Boney M in the mid 1970s) is as follows Yusupov began to panic as Rasputin appeared to consume enough cyanide to …
After my very mixed feelings about the DW Griffith’s beautiful, appalling racist epic The Birth of a Nation, I was keen to check out the next film he made, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages. I’d heard that it was made to address the divisions caused by the controversial release of The Birth of a …
