Reading Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge as a piece of music
Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...
All the King’s Censors
Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...
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Auschwitz survivor Albrecht Weinberg: ‘Everything can go back to the way it was in the 1930s’
At 99, and after having survived three concentration camps, this citizen decided to return the Order of Merit after the ...
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The best typography of the 1930s
As the world faced a second global war, among the politics and propaganda, the 1930s saw significant change in the way people communicated through design – particularly as the written word ...
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Steamed Meat Roll From 1930 - Old Cookbook Show
Today on the Glen And Friends Old Cookbook Show we take a look at a 100 year old Depression Era recipe from a country Church Community Cookbook. Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford pleads guilty to ...
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Limelight: the forgotten British film that goes backstage in 1930s London theatre world
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Anna Neagle was one of Britain’s most ... including Michael Powell’s 1935 feature Her Last Affaire. David’s 50-year-old print of Limelight was scratched and had missing ...
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Driving blind: NYC subways steered by 1930s tech, paper maps and a lot of hope
But that was the 1930s. Nearly a century later ... Unfortunately, the buttons they’re pushing are so old they regularly break. To make matters worse, the companies that manufactured the buttons ...