The Centuries of Sound episode for 1915 is now up for Patreon subscribers – get early access and my radio podcast where I discuss the music at https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound January 1 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. January …
Giorgio de Chirico – The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street August Macke – Farewell StanisÅ‚awa de KarÅ‚owska — Swiss Cottage Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Potsdamer Platz Giacomo Balla – Mercurio transita davanti al sole Franz Marc – Animals in a Landscape Fernand Léger — Nature morte (Still life) Pablo Picasso – Ma Jolie Oskar …
His Musical Career Gertie the Dinosaur Fantômas Contre Fantômas Salomy Jane His Prehistoric Past The Patchwork Girl of Oz The Magic Cloak of Oz His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz Cabiria Judith of Bethulia Absinthe Mabel’s Strange Predicament Bathing Costumes In the …
So, I have bought this book, but unfortunately have not had time to read it. Sorry Nigel Jones, it does look good. If I have time later this year I’ll return here to write something about it. Nigel Jones – Peace and War: Britain in 1914
One of the most widely-known stories of the first world war is the Christmas truce. The British soldiers hear the Germans singing ‘Silent Night’, they venture out into no-man’s land, exchange gifts and have a game of football. Much of this story appears to be true, though it is important to remember that the front …
As part of their BBC WW1 Centenary commemorations, this excellent series covered events as they occurred, exactly 100 years in the past. And then, after 49 days, they stopped, which is a huge shame all round. I want this to be a permanent feature. Here are the 49 episodes of 1914 Day By Day.
The date was Bank Holiday Monday, 3 August 1914, and it was destined to be a day of final, irrevocable and fateful decision. Even as the camera shutter fell, preserving this carefree scene, the larger issues of peace and war continued to hang in the balance… Nearly thirty-six hours later, Britain would declare war on …
On September 1st 1914, Martha, the last passenger pigeon in existence died. Three hundred years before, when the first settlers were arriving in North America, it was the most common bird in the continent, with up to 5 billion individuals. The story of the passenger pigeon is that of colonial destruction and contempt for the …
The sudden slide from the tranquil Indian summer of the Edwardian age into a state of chaos previously inconceivable is quite the tale, but telling it has always been hard. It’s not only that it’s a complicated story, it’s that much of the work in piecing together what happened was done well after the events …
There will be a lot of coverage here of the early part of the first world war, as there are so many fantastic resources available. The BBC in particular launched into the project of making something new about these years with such a degree of creative enthusiasm that it set vastly unrealistic expectations for the …
