In my day job I sometimes take groups of kids to this place, the Scott Polar Museum in Cambridge. Before we go on trips there we do an activity which involves making a list of what you would take with you on a trip to the Antarctic. This is an odd task to give them, …
Today is the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The story of the “unsinkable” liner hitting the iceberg is so famous it hardly seems worth retelling for the umpteenth time, except perhaps for the producers of Entertainment Tonight, who reported on the sinking of the Costa Concordia with this headline So, here’s a …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) “Why was the phonograph valued so highly as a means of musical progress? To answer this question we must recognise two perceptions widely held in early twentieth-century America: that classical music was a powerful cultural and musical force to which Americans sadly lacked exposure, and …
January 1 – The Republic of China is established as Dr. Sun Yat-Sen takes the oath of office as the Provisional President at Nanjing. January 8 – The African National Congress is founded as the South African Native National Congress in a four-day meeting at Bloemfontein. January 9 – The 130 foot tall Equitable Building, …
Jean Metzinger — La Femme au Cheval Albert Gleizes – La Chasse Marc Chagall — I and the Village Souza Cardoso – Greyhounds Franz Marc – The Yellow Cow Umberto Boccioni – The Laugh Roger de La Fresnaye – Artillery Paul Signac — Antibes the towers Paul Émile Chabas – Matinée de Septembre Henri Matisse …
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 …
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 …
Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census Read More »
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 …
Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Read More »
Civic disasters in the pre-regulation days of the early 20th century are on a scale I find hard to comprehend, but the thing that shocks the most isn’t the loss of human life, it’s the careless way it was thrown away. The 145 lives lost in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York were largely …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) Listening chronologically to music in this way, one of the things I have noticed is that there are sudden lurches forward in certain years. 1911, for all its quality, is not one of those years. Most of what you can hear in this mix sounds …
