MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean take you on a journey back to the year 1901 to listen to original, unmediated, often completely unacceptable recordings from the early days of the gramophone. This time we have rousing sort-of proto-proto-proto-jazz, stunning vocal acrobatics from a …
James and Sean take you on a journey back to the year 1901 to listen to original, unmediated, often completely unacceptable recordings from the early days of the gramophone. This time we have rousing sort-of proto-proto-proto-jazz, stunning vocal acrobatics from a Russian soprano, vaudeville comedy which may or may not have stood the test of …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 9 (1901) Read More »
Gustav Klimt – Judith and the Head of Holofernes Pablo Picasso – The Blue Room Winslow Homer — Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – The Fourth Estate Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Kullervo Rides to War Joseph Farquharson – The Shortening Winter’s Day is Near a Close Camille Pissarro – Hay …
Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost A Ride on a Tramcar through Belfast Fire! Race for the Muratti Cup at Manchester The Countryman and the Cinematograph What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City The Man with the Rubber Head Cunard Vessel at Liverpool The Big Swallow Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre Nankin Road, …
Here’s a wonderful thing. In 1994 a stack of negatives was found in a cellar by workmen demolishing a shop. The prints turned out to be the largest surviving collection of actuality films anywhere in the world, and their restoration is almost certainly the best window on to life in Edwardian England. Sagar Mitchell and …
Theodore Roosevelt towers over the Progressive Era like nobody else – he rose to fame at its inception, became president at its height and died as it was spluttering out. Viewed from the 21st century he seems like a mass of contradictions – a strongman intellectual, a populist warmonger who won the Nobel Peace Prize. …
President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6th, 1901, during a visit to the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He died eight days later of gangrene caused by the gunshot wounds. He was the third American president to have been assassinated in forty years – …
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 …
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 …
