MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS A journey through the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we reach the 1900s, and hear Arthur Collins, Vess L Ossman, Arthur Pryor, and other stars of the late Victorian era. We even have a recording of …
A journey through the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we reach the 1900s, and hear Arthur Collins, Vess L Ossman, Arthur Pryor, and other stars of the late Victorian era. We even have a recording of Franz Joseph I of Austria & Hungary, made on a piece of wire. Join …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 8 (1900) Read More »
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 …
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 …
Jonathan Schneer – London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis Read More »
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 …
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 …
