1911

Radio Podcast #19 — 1911

Time travel through audio history with James Errington, this time joined by Cambridge 105’s own Kasia Wozniak to listen to the sounds of 1911, featuring Eastern European émigrés Al Jolson, Irving Berlin and Sophie Tucker; the future president of Poland playing some Chopin; scat singing 15 years before it was supposedly invented; a story about …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 19 (1911)

Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 1st February 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Time travel through audio history with James Errington, this time joined by Cambridge 105’s own Kasia Wozniak to listen to the sounds of 1911, featuring Eastern European émigrés Al Jolson, Irving Berlin and Sophie Tucker; the future president of Poland playing some Chopin; scat …

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1911 in Film

A Trip Through New York City Dante’s Inferno (L’Inferno) Little Nemo The Battle The Diabolical Church Window First Indy 500 The Lonedale Operator The Fall of Troy Enoch Arden David Copperfield Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen The Coffin Ship His Trust Coronation of King George V The Odyssey (L’Odissea) Alkali Ike’s Auto As A …

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Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census

If a certain war had not begun in 1914, the 1910s would likely be best remembered as a decade of progressive social unrest. Movements for workers rights and against racial segregation were now getting into full swing, and, in the UK especially, the period from 1910 to 1914 saw the most militant action of all …

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Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

1911 is an exciting time for literature, but I would venture that the most important event of the year was not Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s launch of the Futurist Manifestito, nor the publication of the first of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown novels, and not even Virginia Stephen, Leonard Woolf, Adrian Stephen, John Maynard Keynes and …

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