I was in London yesterday, and had a little time free to visit this exhibition about the history of recorded sound at the British Library. Having something so exactly match up with my interests is a very lucky co-incidence – and if anything my expectations were exceeded, though it is by no means a large …
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There certainly are quite a lot of these this year.
The second modern Olympics takes place in Paris. Events include angling, cannon shooting, life saving, pigeon racing, fire fighting and ballooning. The Boxer Rebellion in China escalates into a full-blown war between China and a coalition of western forces The Boer War continues, with heavy losses on both sides, and the expansion of concentration camps …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Is this a new century? Difficult to get agreement on this one, but it’s certainly a new decade, and changes are very much in the air; changes that haven’t quite filtered through entirely to the mix you’re about to hear, but which …
Kamal-ol-molk – The Doshan Tappeh Street Almeida Júnior – Saudade (Longing) Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream Claude Monet — Charing Cross Bridge John F. Peto — Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book Nikolaos Gyzis – Behold the Bridegroom Arriving Paul Gauguin – Deux Tahitiennes Thomas Eakins – Wrestlers Vilhelm Hammershøi – Ida Reading …
The Devil in a Convent Momijigari The Kiss in the Tunnel War Footage From 1899 (later compilation) The Pillar of Fire King John The Dreyfus Affair Upside Down; or, the Human Flies Street Scene, Mansion House, London The Mysterious Knight The Mysterious Portrait
Are you Uncle Vanya? I am. [Gunshot sounds] Ouch! – The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Conflict raged across the world in the closing years of the 19th century, from the Spanish-American war to colonial wars in Africa and the Boxer Rebellion in China. To focus on these big-picture events only would miss perhaps a more important fight – that of the newly awakened voice of labour against the ruling classes …
At the closing of the Victorian age, the Boer War saw the British discover they were not invincible after all – and though they ultimately won, the consequences would set the stage for South Africa’s history up until the present day. This documentary series goes into the story well, and includes plenty about the British …
The British Empire was never the positive, civilizing force that it was sold as, but the Victorians seemed, as a whole, to either sweep any misgivings under the carpet or consider them less important than their blossoming sense of national pride. It’s only in the dying years of the era that cracks start to appear …
