The Edwardian Era is a short one – a decade at its basic understanding, 14 years in its extended version – but it’s nevertheless an age that lives on in the memories more than any royalty-based-group-of-years since. Usually it’s referred to as a pleasant break between the stern seriousness of the Victorians and the horrors …
Trawling through the years there’s always a lot of talk of the ending of one era and the beginning of another. Much of it is the sort of bluster engaged in to promote an area of study. In 1901 with the start of the 20th century, the death of Victoria (and later McKinley) and the …
These days you can’t move for historical reenactment shows, but back in the heady days of 1999 the concept was new, and hadn’t been swallowed up by the often frustrating enforced narratives and predetermined “journeys” which have now made the subgenre barely watchable. The members of the family tasked with living in 1900 find the …
The funeral of Queen Victoria is held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later. Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year old schoolteacher from Bay City, Michigan, became the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls …
Psst – come and join my Patreon here – https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound – and get access to our radio podcasts in January! MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Escaping a blinkered view of early 20th century recorded music sometimes seems like an impossible task. If the Edwardian era is …
Time inexorably marches on at a 12x speed, and sometimes there isn’t the opportunity to fully immerse myself in the moment. I bought this book at Oxfam two weeks ago, but have only had time to read the introduction and two chapters. The one on entertainment was excellent, its description of the cultural value of …
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Vilhelm Hammershøi — Sunbeams Aurelia de Sousa – Self-portrait Pablo Picasso – Le Moulin de la Galette L.A. Ring – Sommerdag ved Roskilde Fjord J. W. Waterhouse – Destiny Ambrose McEvoy — Bessborough Street, Pimlico Maximilien Luce — Notre Dame de Paris William Orpen — Herbert Everett Mary Cassatt – Young Mother Sewing Thomas Eakins …
Joan of Arc Explosion of a Motor Car The One-Man Band Grandma’s Reading Glass Namo Village, Panorama Taken from a Rickshaw Messrs Lumb and Co Leaving the Works, Huddersfield Going To Bed Under Difficulties Le Danse Des Saisons Let Me Dream Again How It Feels To Be Run Over As Seen Through a Telescope The …
I’ve somehow owned a copy of this book since childhood but hadn’t thought to read it until now. It’s weird, and not always in a fun way. I was reminded most of the Grimm fairly tales, with their meandering, unstructured, unresolved plots, confused morals and sudden lurches into violence. The prose itself is a disconcerting …
The turmoil that would break into the horrors of the first half of the 20th century was already well underway around the world. In China, a nation due to spend most of those fifty years engaged in civil war, the crisis was already here. Neglected by the Qing Dynasty, humiliated by defeat to western nations …
