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The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, EC2
Very lively- interested particular about Burbage. Thanks for interesting colour tips!
Yesterday, I went to look for “The Old Blue Last”, a pub which featured in a book I was reading.
“The Old Blue Last stood at the top of Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, a snub-nosed, imposing three-storey brick building curved like the bow of a boat…..”
‘Career of Evil’ by Robert Galbraith, Chapter 12.
I sketched standing outside the estate agents Fraser and Co.
This pub is now owned by “Vice Magazine” (“VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.”). Their website helpfully publishes a history of the pub:
“…in 1576 a venture capitalist named James Burbage built a venue called The Theatre where The Old Blue Last…
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9 Greek Islands – Mykonos
The Island where Captain Corelli’s Mandolin was set !
I have written seven books about the history of places I have travelled to.
I travel because my own father always said he would travel after he’d retired, but he never got the chance because he died from cancer when he was 49. I travel for him when I go to places as well as for myself.
If you are interested in history and / or travel then you should check out these books. Please bear in mind the books are travelogues rather than travel guides and so cover the places I visited and the experiences I had.
This book keeps it simple and covers nine Greek Islands: Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Samos, Syros, Paros, Tinos, Delos, and Mykonos. They are all different and all lovely.
This is an excerpt on Mykonos.
It may seem strange to include Mykonos in a book about history, but there’s plenty of things…
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A very useful summary of an important text.
This second volume of Norman Davies’ history begins with a nation that has vanished from the map of Europe; the idea of Poland survives nevertheless, and he shows us the problems national aspirations can cause. His account of the period is wide-ranging, comprehensive, and he demonstrates a deep level both of sympathy with, and understanding of, the situation of Poles during those years; he is a historian widely read and respected in Poland. Given the absence of a country of which to record the history, he examines things thematically: church, language, history and race create a sense of a nation.
Unless you are prepared to go into great depth, you will never unpick or make sense of the incredible complexity of Polish history, culture and society. Davies manages to do all of this, making things clear and evident, as well as acknowledging that there’s often a touch…
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Interesting – like the interiors and general energetic approach.
Earlier this year I wrote a series of articles looking at members of the Camden Town Group and their outer circle, including Douglas Fox Pitt (1864–1922). A century ago today, on 19 September 1922, Fox Pitt died. This article, based on my earlier account, commemorates the centenary of his death.
Douglas Fox Pitt was the son of Augustus Lane Fox, better known under his later name of Lieutenant-General Fox Pitt Rivers, whose anthropological and archaeological collection formed the basis of the Pitt Rivers Museum in the University of Oxford. He had changed his name when he inherited a country estate substantial enough to support him and his family in the style that they desired.
Young Douglas Fox Pitt didn’t need to work, and found it hard to choose an occupation. He initially started to train as an architect, then went to Canada and South America to farm for a while…
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Mourning and the Movement
I have been perusing in a somewhat feckless manner an introductory chapter in Blake Morrison’s carefully written “The Movement” subtitled, English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s. Here he mentions a poem about Plymouth by Philip Larkin which begins-
A box of teak, a box of sandalwood,
A brass-ringed spyglass in a case,
A coin, leaf thin with many polishings,
(Collected poems page 166)
This appears to be an early poem which concludes with a stanza that explains in which Larkin says of his intentions for his poetry……
Let my hands find such symbols, that can be
Unnoticed in the casual light of day,
Lying in wait for half a century
To split chance lives across, that had not dreamed
Such coasts had echoed, or such seabirds had screamed.
Now when today mourning takes place with great pomp and ceremony it is somewhat salutary to turn to Keith Douglas killed fighting in the Second World War, admired by Movement poets, and his splendid and sparse poem-
Simplify me when I’m Dead
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Waterfall, Sivas Province, Turkey
She looks rather cheeky!!
A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Catalan illustrator and cartoonist Ana Maria Smith (c.1880-1954)
Self-portrait, 1917 / Drawing / Cerdanyola Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain
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Excellent- the roaring twenties!!
A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Spanish figurative painter Marisa Roësset Velasco (1904-1976)
1. Self-portrait, 1924 / Oil on canvas / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2. Self-portrait, 1926 / Painting / Collection of artist’s niece
3. Self-portrait Lying on the Floor, 1927 / Painting / Private collection
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Love the coloured inks in that third pre-art nouveau image!
At the time of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, there was more to the movement than painting alone. Several of those showing their work were sculptors, and quite a few showed prints. Among the latter was Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914), who did paint early in his career but was first and foremost a prolific engraver and print-maker.
Born in Paris, he initially trained as a lithographer, but then went to work for Guichard, who had been a pupil of JAD Ingres. A portrait of his was accepted for the Salon in 1852. After that youthful success, he concentrated on engraving and etching, rather than painting, and was part of the nineteenth century revival of print-making in France. He later went to work in the Sèvres porcelain factory, before working for Haviland, the manufacturer of Limoges porcelain, in 1870.
He was a long-standing friend of Manet and Whistler, as well as…
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