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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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 …
January 2 – Police fight a gunbattle on London’s Sidney Street January 18 – Eugene B. Ely becomes the first person to land an airplane on a ship February 1 – Thirty people are killed in an explosion at Communipaw, New Jersey. The blast is felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows …
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Eduard Kosmack Umberto Boccioni — The City Rises Wassily Kandinsky — Improvisation 7 Jean Metzinger – Deux Nus Albert Gleizes – La Femme aux Phlox Adolf Wölfli — Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain Christian Sass – Osterhusumer Wasser – und Windmühle Anagoria Henri Rousseau — The Dream Henri Matisse – Music Nicolae Tonitza …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h71_Xk3ROo Ramona Le Vitrail Diabolique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYaehvpqq8 New York of Today Twelth Night The Wonderful Wizard of Oz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or4OJhmoG_g The House with Closed Shutters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJxPDs8Q–Y Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland Thunderbolt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qrG-luCW0k The Abyss (Afgrunden) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q297Ks2EMpY Slippery Jim Making Christmas Crackers Frankenstein The Johnson-Jeffries Fight The Fugitive The Lad From Old Ireland Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa …
Occasionally the CoS world will bump into the news, and so it was last week, when Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was asked whether Winston Churchill was a hero or a villain and replied, after a long pause. “Tonypandy – villain” It wasn’t a surprise that the newspapers and political twitter made a big deal …
As far as I’m concerned 20th Century British Monarchs go something like this: Edward VII – Portly saucy man with big beard and elaborate clothing, had his own era. George V – Had a funny moustache and looked very much like his royal cousins? Edward VIII – Quit to get married to Wallace Simpson, bit …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) “On or around December 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered or a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like …
January 1st – U.S. President William H. Taft opens the New Year by shaking hands with 5,575 members of the general public at The White House January 11th – Charcot Island is discovered by Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, while sailing on the ship Pourquoi Pas January 13th – The first radio …
