#Bryher

The History Files

@historyfiles.bsky.social

1 week ago

The History Files: Churches of the Scilly Isles

Churches of the #ScillyIsles: #AllSaints Church, #Bryher, replaced a small 1700s chapel of 'God and All Saints' which replaced a lost #medieval chapel.

www.historyfiles.co.uk/ChurchesBrit...

#history #historyfiles #churches #chapels #Scillies #churchesofthescillyisles #churchesofthebritishisles

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Barbara Hepworth works on “Curved Form, Bryher II” (1961)

Here's a wonderful article about the artist...

www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015...

#barbarahepworth #curvedform #bryher #c1961 #sculpture #modernsculpture #biomorphism #biomorphicart #biomorphicsculpture #modernsculpture #20thcentury #art

Lena Mattheis

@lenamattheis.bsky.social

1 month ago

“Queer Exiles” with Ben Robbins From Christopher Isherwood to Djuna Barnes, some of the most prolific queer writers of the 20th century wrote in exile. Ben Robbins joins me to explain how and why queer writers connected with each other in exile and how (in)voluntary movement shaped their stories. Ben shares some surprising encounters from the archives and paints a picture of some of the locations of queer exile: Berlin, Tangier and Capri.   References: Networked Narratives: Queer Exile Literature 1900-1969 Funded by the Austrian Science Fund/FWF (Project DOI: 10.55776/P35199)   https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/networkednarratives/ Ben Robbins’ “‘Marriages ought to be secret’: Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative” JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Dec. 2023, pp. 100–122, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v5i1.173. Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers http://queerexilelit.uibk.ac.at/ Robbins, Ben, and Ralph J. Poole. "Introduction: Queer Ruralisms." AmLit – American Literatures 4.2 (2024): 4-21. Ben Robbins’ Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen (University of Virginia Press 2024) https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5855/ Queer Second Cities Maria Sulimma Ben Robbins’ “Christopher Isherwood in Exile”  https://www.huntington.org/verso/christopher-isherwood-exile Harry Ransom Center Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman) Oscar Wilde W. Somerset Maugham E.F. Benson John Ellingham Brooks Romaine Brooks John Ellerman Robert McAlmon Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood Natalie Barney Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin Stephen Spender’s The Temple Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies W.H. Auden Patricia Highsmith Allen Ginsberg Claude McKay Thornton Wilder Ben Robbins. "Space, Sexuality, and Thornton Wilder's Villa Rhabani." Thornton Wilder Journal 5:1, November 2024, pp. 99-119. DOI: 10.5325/thorntonwilderj.5.1.0099  https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/thornton-wilder/article-abstract/5/1/99/392187/Space-Sexuality-and-Thornton-Wilder-s-Villa?redirectedFrom=fulltext Open access: https://ulb-dok.uibk.ac.at/urn/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-40689 William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch Alfred Chester’s Looking for Genet: Literary Essays and Reviews Susan Sontag Gore Vidal Henry James Truman Capote   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      How does Ben define ‘exile’? How is this similar to and different from ‘expat’? -      How does exile relate to class status and financial means? -      Why are queer networks so important in this context? -      What does Ben say about exile and (involuntary) movement affecting narrative form? -      How do you find out where you can safely travel?

📣 New Podcast! "“Queer Exiles” with Ben Robbins" on @Spreaker #bryher #christopherisherwood #djunabarnes #exile #exileliterature #exilenarrative #exilewriting #expat #genderexile #lgbtqiaexile #narrativemobility #queercapri #queerexile #queerexpats #queerjourney #queerliterature #queermobility

Tina Baker

@tinabakerbooks.bsky.social

1 year ago

Today is the low tide event in the #IslesofScilly when you can walk between #Tresco and #Bryher - a magical experience which features in my latest thriller #whawedidinthestorm @ViperBooks
There are secrets and darkness in my pages, but also a love story 💙

Jens Notroff

@jensnotroff.com

2 years ago

Original study:

S. Mays et al., Sex identification of a Late #IronAge #sword and mirror #cist burial from Hillside Farm, #Bryher, Isles of Scilly, #England, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 27 July 2023 (In Press, Corrected Proof)....

Jens Notroff

@jensnotroff.com

2 years ago

Does a #sword make a #warrior? Maybe, but not necessarily a man:

2,000 y/o #IronAge grave on #Bryher (Isles of Scilly), also containing #sword and mirror, is the burial of a woman, #DNA analysis of tooth enamel...