MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS As we are coming towards the end of the 19th Century, I 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.” Centuries …
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 …
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Anna Klumpke – Portrait of Rosa Bonheur Arnold Böcklin — Plague Edwin Austin Abbey — King Lear, Act I, Scene I Ivan Aivazovsky — Among Waves José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior — The Inopportune L. A. Ring — Ved frokostbordet og morgenaviserne Odilon Redon – The Cyclops Teodor Axentowicz — Self-portrait Thomas Eakins — Salutat …
The Astronomer’s Dream Dewar’s – It’s Scotch! (The first advert) Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine” Eiffel Tower The Four Troublesome Heads A Switchback Railway Queen Victoria Arrives at a Royal Garden Party The Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat Tommy Atkins in the Park The Famous Box Trick Santa Claus Adventures of …
It might not be the most reprinted newspaper editorial of all time, but the J’Accuse letter resonates all the way to the dark heart of the 20th Century like nothing else. Antisemitism, inter-European rivalries, the politics of industrial hate – it stands as both a grim foretelling of these forces and an example of the …
Reading The Island of Doctor Moreau, I thought it must be the darkest of Wells’s science fiction stories, but The War of the Worlds represents some solid competition on that front. As stories of alien invasion go, it’s remarkably bleak and lacking in heroism. After the aliens land in the suburbs of London (the …
1898 is quite a memorable year for one big reason; it marks the start and end of the Spanish-American war, the first adventure of the USA’s imperial phase, and the making of one of its most zeitgeist-setting leaders, Theodore Roosevelt. On the plus side this means the year is easier to research, but on …
It’s one of those stories that barely seems credible; British-led construction workers building a railway across Kenya and Uganda are picked off and eaten by a pair of unusually cunning lions. Traps are laid, but the lions manage to outwit the hunters at every stage, until in a final showdown they are defeated by a …
Oscar in his third and final act was perhaps on the surface a different sort of animal; withdrawn and solemn, altogether lacking in the choice witticisms that made his name. I like to think that nothing had changed – here is the honesty and compassion that I see in his essays and his novel, just …
 War The Spanish—American War The Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen. 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece, leading to the establishment of the autonomous Cretan State. Other Conflict (inter-human) Émile Zola’s “J’accuse…!” letter is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper …
