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Thoughts from a Mountain: October 2014
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Thoughts from a Mountain. I Started out with Nothing and I Still Got Most of It Left" (Seasick Steve). Starcat 1 by my favourite artist. Wednesday, 22 October 2014. An aside: "How", you might well ask, "does the car journey last as long as the bus journey, especially as you don't stop in the five major towns en route? And indeed: "Isn't it cheaper and more environmentally friendly to use public transport? I suppose that the composition has changed since then. This was a. River in the extreme background.
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Thoughts from a Mountain: November 2014
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Thoughts from a Mountain. I Started out with Nothing and I Still Got Most of It Left" (Seasick Steve). Starcat 1 by my favourite artist. Sunday, 23 November 2014. WHY BOB GELDOF AND HIS MATEYS WON'T BE SHAMING ME INTO PARTING WITH MY HARD-EARNED PENNIES. Oh how it warmed the cockles of my heart to see Sir Bob Geldof and his superannuated millionaire mateys bestir themselves once again for the poor benighted Africans! Oh how much self-loathing and hatred I felt as I mused upon the fact that U2 gave away t...
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The History Bucket: Christina Broom, Photographer
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket." [Mrs Lintott, "The History Boys" by Alan Bennett]. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Christina Broom, Photographer. A great exhibition currently on at the Museum of London. For those lucky enough to live in London or are able to get there! Read about Christina Broom. The UK's first female press photographer, at the London Historians. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Thoughts from a Mountain: August 2014
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Thoughts from a Mountain. I Started out with Nothing and I Still Got Most of It Left" (Seasick Steve). Starcat 1 by my favourite artist. Sunday, 31 August 2014. On Sanlúcar de Barrameda. As I have mentioned in previous posts, Sanlúcar. De Barrameda is a relatively undiscovered jewel among the smaller coastal Andalusian cities – and its catchphrase “. Calidad de vida”,. Or “Quality of Life” is one of the truest I have ever come across. For further general information click on. A panoramic shot of the beach.
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The Lost Victorian: December 2015
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Monday, 21 December 2015. Have Yourselves a Spooky Little Christmas. This will be the last blog before Christmas, and possibly before New Year, so I'd like to take the opportunity to wish all my friends, family, followers and readers all the joy of the season. Art by Robin Carey, (c) 2015. Quick round-up, including the cutomary blowing of trumpet: 2015 has been a great year: My debut novel is out ( The Lazarus Gate. In case you haven't heard! And I've also had two books published by Osprey. Last week I v...
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The Lost Victorian: December 2016
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016. 8220;There is probably a smell of roasted chesnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories – Ghost Stories, or more shame for us – round the Christmas fire.”. Charles Dickens, Telling Winter Stories, 1859. Every year at about this time, I tend to turn my reading to ghost stories. Okay, who am I kidding? After the success of A Christmas Carol. Dickens took to publishing festive ghost stories annually in the periodical All the Year Round.
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The History Bucket: The "Charlotte Bronte of wood and stone"
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket." [Mrs Lintott, "The History Boys" by Alan Bennett]. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The "Charlotte Bronte of wood and stone". Heritage England has a current blog post on women architects. Click here. Jenny Uglow has written a book about her, The Pinecone. Images from UK Telegraph Review. Heaps more images on Flickr. Thanks to all photographers who have shared them!
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ST:ART: February 2011
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Culture, Comment, Features. Tuesday, 1 February 2011. Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction. When David Hockney’s iPad art was shown in. Rebecca Barrs, who has had several solo exhibitions, specializes in high-speed photography. The first experiments in this field took place in the nineteenth century with the most prominent exponent being Eadweard Muybridge. In contrast Barrs, whose latest work can be seen at. It may have been better, however, if the work had been allowed to speak for itself. Instea...
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ST:ART: Heard the one about the Painter and the Pistol?
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Culture, Comment, Features. Monday, 27 June 2011. Heard the one about the Painter and the Pistol? Hidden Paintings of the West Midlands. Once upon a time we knew what to expect from the BBC. While entertainment naturally dominates the schedule there's always been a place for programmes in which someone who gives the impression they know what they're talking about leads the viewer on an educational journey. Sadly these programmes are becoming a rarity. Here things began to get interesting - particularly f...
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Mending their manners | Victorian Paris
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Interview with Iva Polansky. Life in 19th Century Paris. Laquo; 12 events that influenced 19th century Paris. The Scarcity of Water. March 21, 2011 by Iva P. Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles. By Charles C. Fulton. Text written in 1873. More on the subject:. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Otto von ...
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