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East End Vernacular

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Henry Silk and East End Vernacular is the title of an exhibition currently at Abbott and Holder of Museum Street, London.  It celebrates not only the work of the basket weaver and East End Group member Henry Silk (1883-1948) but … Continue reading

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Review of 2017

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It’s January and time to look back over 2017 and see what was achieved and consider a continuing and disturbing e-book industry trend. Your blogger has been carrying out such an exercise since The Story Bazaar web-site began in January … Continue reading

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REFERENDUM II – the Hero Returns

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Coming soon to a TV/radio/polling station near you! Contrary to recent reports of his disappearance into the black heart of supremacist America the fedora wearing, self-appointed People’s Champion is about to make his comeback. Nigel Farage, for it is he, is … Continue reading

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Did the earth move for you?

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It may have done if you visited the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. It had been years since I went to the Earth Galleries, accompanying visiting friends who had young children, so I was unprepared … Continue reading

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Rachel Whiteread

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Rachel Whiteread is one of a handful of modern British artists whose name is known beyond the modern-art loving population, to the wider general public. British enthusiasm for modern and/or conceptual art has definitely increased in the early years of the … Continue reading