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At Studio Voltaire on Thursday evening an interesting talk by the Tate’s Martin Myrone, lead curator British Art to 1800 in conjunction with their exhibition Putti’s Pudding, exploring work by Cookie Mueller and Vittorio Scarpati. Mueller was a writer and … Continue reading
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It was when we reached the road at the top of our lane that we saw the people. Groups of two or three, dressed in Sunday best, all heading in one direction, into the very centre of the old town. … Continue reading
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On Tuesday evening I went along to Hammersmith and the Blue Anchor, a pub overlooking the River Thames. I was there for this month’s meeting of History by the River, an event run by the Historical Writers Association and its … Continue reading
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It is said that there are only six degrees of separation between any two people. In his 1929 book of short stories Everything is Different, Frigyes Karinthy suggested in Chain Links that, as the networks which people used to communicate … Continue reading
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Homage to Catalonia
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As I write this post the police and the Guardia Civil are on the streets of Barcelona and other Catalan towns and cities engaged in running battles with supporters of Catalan independence. Many of today’s UK Sunday newspapers ( at … Continue reading →
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