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 …
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 …
