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 …
Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census Read More »
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 …
Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Read More »
Civic disasters in the pre-regulation days of the early 20th century are on a scale I find hard to comprehend, but the thing that shocks the most isn’t the loss of human life, it’s the careless way it was thrown away. The 145 lives lost in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York were largely …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) Listening chronologically to music in this way, one of the things I have noticed is that there are sudden lurches forward in certain years. 1911, for all its quality, is not one of those years. Most of what you can hear in this mix sounds …
January 2 – Police fight a gunbattle on London’s Sidney Street January 18 – Eugene B. Ely becomes the first person to land an airplane on a ship February 1 – Thirty people are killed in an explosion at Communipaw, New Jersey. The blast is felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows …
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 …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 7 (1898-1899) Read More »
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 …
Ramona Le Vitrail Diabolique New York of Today Twelth Night The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The House with Closed Shutters Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland Thunderbolt The Abyss (Afgrunden) Slippery Jim Making Christmas Crackers Frankenstein The Johnson-Jeffries Fight The Fugitive The Lad From Old Ireland Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa A Christmas Carol As It Is …
Occasionally the CoS world will bump into the news, and so it was last week, when Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was asked whether Winston Churchill was a hero or a villain and replied, after a long pause. “Tonypandy – villain” It wasn’t a surprise that the newspapers and political twitter made a big deal …
As far as I’m concerned 20th Century British Monarchs go something like this: Edward VII – Portly saucy man with big beard and elaborate clothing, had his own era. George V – Had a funny moustache and looked very much like his royal cousins? Edward VIII – Quit to get married to Wallace Simpson, bit …
