Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together
The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart
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Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together
The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart
classified ad, 1940:
"Boulestin Restaurant, 25 Southampton Street, CG. Renowned cuisine and wines. Perfect Air-Raid Shelter. Closed Sundays."
often wondered what this was originally ... opened 1864, the Victoria Club, for bookmakers and betting men ... bookies regularly met there for call-overs (I hesitantly think pre-race bets amongst themselves to help decide on odds offered to public? if anyone has better explanation, please tell me)
a music revival in 1930s ... Ridgeways Late Joys was a nostalgic restaging of late-Victorian/Edwardian music hall songs which would become 'The Good Old Days' TV show in the 1970s (and continues to this day at www.playerstheatre.co.uk) ... equivalent of going to some 70s/80s retro pop night now?
Screenshot of the homepage of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies digital archive.
I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions:
harrisslist.prisms.digital
#HarrissList #DH #WIP
"batiked", lovely.
Pair of doors with studded brass edging and decorative flourishes against a peach background and, in the transom window above, a fan of golden arrows
Enjoying the decorative artistry in this doorway in Prague, from round 1900 (Arnim Schulz) www.flickr.com/photos/arnim...
hesitantly think not but I am terrible at faces
absolutely. wonder if @tricksterprince.bsky.social has avy thoughts on them
I know the world is awful BUT
VICTORIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!
Richard Hogsflesh Rogers
(1851-1913)
any 1920s arts/theatre people following me who can place this front row? ... they're in the 1926 news reel about the theatre (mocking it as for 'high-brows') and I'm sure carefully set up for the camera, but I'm still wondering if they're well-known figures or caricatures of 'artsy' people
cheers, it's an odd one ... no obvious place to fit it in the book but I think I need to ... short-lived expressionist theatres are few and far between!
except not 'ramp up' here where I've seen it but definitely 'ramps' on its own. it is curious.
a staged shot of the audience at Long Acre's tiny and short-lived avant-garde theatre, The Gate Theatre Salon, held in a top floor of a converted warehouse c.1925-1927 ... not familiar with 20s theatre, but searching around, the date and pic suggests a production of Ernst Toller's Masse Mensch
seem to be seeing price 'ramps' in WWII press, rather than 'hikes' ... when did 'hike' take over?
cannot help thinking that the resolutely cheerful tone of the papers would be the thing I hated most, had I lived in WWII London
I regret to inform you no such undertaking has been received and that I am still at war.
'many of the architectural challenges are caused by the so-called Tower being in a traditional but imaginatively restrictive "vertical" alignment ...'
Amazing how terrifying new dances always are. Here is a great little YouTube video excoriating "the Stomp" in Australia, 1963...
youtu.be/5ZF-NVQZ034?...
to be fair, jitterbug really one where you could have someone's eye out, but yes, all the same :-)
Trivia point: “Litter Bug” was a term derived from jitterbug. Ads on NYC transit.
Lol. I called this on day 1
WWII London faces its greatest peril: jitterbugging
some geezer in a teeny tiny car popping up the shops.
Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris
Maurice Zalewski, 1950
honestly seems like everyone has; it probably is the power of AI to create the multiple sites and identities etc.
it does sound proper literary; unlike Lee Jackson, which is thoroughly implausible.
I had another from 'Glasgow'. They were going to do wonders for me.