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@soniapurnell
I am sorry for your loss Sonia. My mother died in hospital in Nov. 2020 just 4 days before her 90th birthday. We were not allowed to visit. Because the ward was so busy during the three weeks she was there we were only able to speak four times. I am haunted by her lonely death.
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@_cameronspark
Me too, and I’m one of them, triple jabbed, mask wearing hand gelling, all for nothing. 5 days ill now and it’s been awful. Anti vaxxers who compare it to a bad cold are wrong, it’s way worse. Thank goodness for the jabs, thank you NHS.
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@coldwarsteve
Marvellous Chris, but won’t the numbers of perpetrators completely overwhelm our already overcrowded prisons?
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@JackTindale
@politic_animal
Knew a civil servant in the Department of Justice. Minister at that time was Chris Grayling, who was also her MP. Most days he took same train as her, so she had to check the crowds on the platform to spot him (helpfully he was tall and bald) then go to the other end of the train
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On this day in 1944 Birmingham artist Joseph Southall died aged 83. Lifelong socialist and pacifist, published some stunning pro- peace images during World War 1. L ook at the Obliterator war machine, the doomed soldier and the third image of a lost prewar Birmingham scene.
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@V_and_A
@rebeccawynter
This apparently jokey advert is certainly more than unsettling. This photo is Elsie Howey, Malvern’s very own suffragette. Her death certificate in 1963 recorded the cause of death as acute pyloric stenosis, a rare condition, almost certainly caused by repeated force feeding.
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@oldenoughtosay
Colleague at the council once put a cat flap in the door of his old cottage. Very difficult because the wood was so hard. One day, talking to the Historic Buildings officer, he told her where he lived. I know your house she said, it’s the one with the 15th century door.
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My daughter Dr Alice Kelly has published today her book on women writers and how they dealt with the overwhelming numbers of dead in World War One. As well as an analysis of a wide range of female writers she covers how modernism is underlaid by commemoration. Well worth a read.
Look at what arrived in the post from
@EdinburghUP
: my author copies of Commemorative Modernisms! Coming soon to a bookshop near you!
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#BlackLamb24
I am way behind schedule at present but couldn’t resist sharing this photo of the ‘towered school closely resembling a small public library’ mentioned on p490. It was the word ‘towered’ that made me look it up. The architect also liked round arch windows it seems!
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Rachel Hunter Rowe of Mrs History Birmingham outlining the 100 anniversary programme of the Birmingham Civic Society at today’s launch
@BirminghamCivic
#TheCityBeautiful100
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3) Dazzle ship on the high seas from the catalogue for Dazzle : Disguise and Disruption in War and Art by James Taylor
@StBarbeMuseum
yesterday.
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Marvellous orchestra at Rhondda Rips It Up,dressed in suffragette colours ( in fact the backdrop is in shades of purple white and green too)
@WNOtweet
. Great music, singing and acting. Rise Up Women!
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This is a great article showing why material culture matters and needs to be included alongside all the other historical approaches. We are indeed all shaped by the things we use often without noticing them.
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“Hang a Blue Plaque on the Wall on the name of History’ Casey Bailey reading his poem for the 100 anniversary launch of the Birmingham Civic Society
@BirminghamCivic
#TheCityBeautiful100
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@CeliaRichards0n
This is a very moving testimony to the value of our NHS and I am so glad your son was cured. May he have a long life and prosper.
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Lord Mayor of Birmingham and Sir Gilbert Barling’s granddaughter unveil the blue plaque to Gilbert Barling as part of the launch of the 100 anniversary of the Birmingham Civic Society today
@BirminghamCivic
#the
city beautiful 100
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Pippa is fed up with waiting outside polling stations every twelve months.
#dogsatpollingstations
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Birmingham Civic Society members gather for a photo with the Barling Blue Plaque to mark the launch of the 100 anniversary events for the Society. Well done to all!
@BirminghamCivic
#Thecitybeautiful100
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#blackLamb24
Cathedral at Rab. Campanile on Euclidean principle according to husband but RW has missed one storey -'4 stories, door on ground floor, 1st storey 2 windows , next storey two windows with2 columns, highest one window with 3 columns, then balustrade, and spire.'
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Happy 150th Birthday to Charles Rennie Mackintosh -my own photo of one of the many streptocarpus which my wife successfully grows in our kitchen. The basket is from Guatemala
@78Derngate
#Mackintosh150
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Just to prove the point, yesterday I saw a programme from the Rep 25th Anniversary Season (1938) where the then General manager, Cyril Phillips says :...without the help of the Civic Society and its supporters we might not have celebrated this Jubilee
#thecitybeautiful100
The Birmingham Civic Society saved the Rep during a funding crisis on the 1920’s so it is good to see both organisations still mutually supporting each other now
#thecitybeautiful100
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2) the 1900 Eagle Assurance building in Birmingham, home to the
@JavaLoungeUK
. Lovely arts and crafts decoration, the Eagle, brick panels, alternate rounded and triangular window heads , lovely ground floor doors with Buddhist temple arches...
@BirminghamCivic
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#SPQRtogether
I need a lot of help understanding Roman history, like starting with the significance of their names - quick guide here so Marcus Tullius Cicero is praenomen - 1st name, nomen - then clan name and then cognomen - family name. (Cont)
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John Drinkwater’s Lines for the Opening of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1913,
#HistoricTheatresDay
, first purpose built repertory theatre in England and a powerhouse of innovation outside London
@Grailgirl
@TheOldRep
#madeinBirmingham
Good poem too!
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Tribute to Maud Gill; 5 actors play the 5 roles she undertook as first female Stage Manager in UK during WW1
@BirminghamRep
@TheOldRep
part of On This Stage today. Maud was a good actor too. Last event in
@BirminghamCivic
100 anniversary
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2) Here’s the leaf print of Walt Whitman which Prof Schultz just showed at
@cultcommwar
- a visual reference to Leaves of Grass and now he’s talking about and showing a leaf series of the Lilianquist Civil War soldiers portraits and referring to Whitman’s poem Reconciliation
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RIP, W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) who has died today. A lovely poet.
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@imnjupiter
‘In some ways, to explore Ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking on a tightrope, a very careful balancing act.’ Mary Beard
#SPQRtogether
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Well I would say this, but
@DrAliceKelly
has organised a stunning workshop. Roll Up! Roll Up!
Please RT: Register now for our second
@CultCommWar
workshop, IWM London, 11 Dec 2017: Lest We Forget? Reconsidering
#FWW
Memory, feat. keynotes from
@PaulCumminsMBE
and
@jeremydeller
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Today’s eclipse in Arkansas at partial stage projected on the ground through a mini colander I picked up in the Target near our hotel
@imnjupiter
@ds228
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@DaveThroup
The bluebells in the field off Old Hollow are not bad too ( and you could smell them).
#TesstheDog
was sniffing at the smellier wild garlic in the woods below. The newly constructed small animals and insect house looks good. And Elgar is decorated for the well dressing.
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Rita MacLean now explaining the life of Gilbert Barling, who became Chair of the Birmingham Civic Society in its early years whom the Society is honouring with a blue plaque as part of its centenary celebrations
@BirminghamCivic
#The
CityBeautiful100
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#SPQRtogether
- Mary Beard is on BBC Radio for the next few weeks talking about being Roman ….
On Tuesday 21st (9.00 a.m
@BBCRadio4
) the next episode of Being Roman features a Roman squaddie. Some of his letters survive, and he's a terrible moaner - not to mention seeming to be more interested in shopping than active service. Also soon on Sounds
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@dog_rates
Here is
#TesstheDog
having a well deserved shower and I am now going to rename her Argument….
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#BlackLamb24
p.258 about Our Lady of the Rocks, a church on an island near Perast: ‘This island is artificial banked up round a small rock…’ Wikipedia has a photo and a note that people still throw rocks into the sea, at sunset on 22 July which enlarge the island.
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Great community singing of suffrage songs by the Welsh National Opera Community Choir before tonight’s performance of Rhondda Rips It Up. Rise up,Women!
@WNOtweet
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Scene On This Stage backstage theatre tour
@TheOldRep
today
@BirminghamRep
founder Barry Jackson ponders first modern costume Shakespeare in his office 1923 - great to see scenes I could previously only imagine.
@BirminghamRep
@BirminghamCivic
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Missed this one on the International Day of Peace. Southall was a dedicated pacifist and campaigner for peace all his life, drew and painted powerful images for the cause like this one, but also worked for improvements in Birmingham through
@BirminghamCivic
#thecitybeautiful
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Great tour today by
#BournevilleVillageTrust
and
@BirminghamCivic
on women at Bourneville, including Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, Trade Unionist Julia Varley, educationalist Dora Partridge, artists I didn’t know - Norah Yoxall and Mary sargent Florence and Quaker Bertha Bracey
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Looking forward to this tonight. William Haywood, one of the founders of Birmingham Civic Society alongside John Drinkwater, its first secretary and a talented architect. He designedBirminghams first skyscraper, sadly never built.
@BirminghamCivic
Learn more about the man behind the latest
#BluePlaque
unveiled in
#Birmingham
@WellyRealAle
talk by
@TheSJHartland
@GunmakersBrum
TODAY!
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The Birmingham Civic Society saved the Rep during a funding crisis on the 1920’s so it is good to see both organisations still mutually supporting each other now
#thecitybeautiful100
We've been working to protect and support our city's cultural heritage for 100 years. Find out how you can become a member, and play your part.
#thecitybeautiful100
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@Samantharhill
There’s one of my heroes Deleuze and Guattari too….with angry letter from Lucan included and a promise of rhizomatic connections….
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@TPTFootball
@brunoog97
Marvellous story and his love for Newcastle is a touching sign of how far the team and the city have come from neglect to respect
#NUFC
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At the launch of the centenary celebrations of the Birmingham Civic Society, one of whose founders was John Drinkwater who I study. Opening words from the Chair, architect Gavin Orton
@BirminghamCivic
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#SPQRtogether
Amusing aside when Mary Beard is speaking of the meeting of senators on December 5 to discuss the imprisoned conspirators. ‘This time the senators met in the temple of the goddess Concord, or Harmony, a sure sign that affairs of state were anything but harmonious.’
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#SPQRtogether
short day today but a lot packed into 6 pages, covering 19C painting of showdown in senate, buildings of Rome, Roman costume and the different ranks of society and the Catiline plot and its defeat and Cicero’s downfall, Bravo Mary Beard, great writing/explanation.
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@secrettory12
Don’t put out any water for them either, they can get plenty of good quality liquids ( and solids) from our local rivers….
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#BlackLamb24
1) So RW had a lesson in belly-dancing from the woman called Astra pp308-9! By then she was in her forties. Sadly the lesson seems not to have worked. ‘ vous n’avez pas de quoi’. I learn something new every day about RW and her interests from reading this book.
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Watts and Darwin’s discussions and indeed, the meetings of the Lunar Society must have been well, stellar. For me the Lunar Society is one of the glories of the Enlightenment and it’s great it was made in the West Midlands too
@LunarSoc
@TheIronRoom
@erasmusdarwin
@HLFWestMids
@JamesKel1
@TheIronRoom
@HLFWestMids
Isn't it interesting to imagine what Watt and Darwin once talked about? When you are in the Lichfield area and interested in
#jameswatt2019
,
@erasmusdarwin
house is also organising 2 James Watt lectures
@HistoryWM
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#SPQRtogether
, well this is a timely thread today…
The proscription of Cicero was one of the most grisly and tragic events of the late Roman Republic.
Why was Cicero, a former Consul and respected member of Roman politics, selected to be proscribed?
Let's do a deep dive into the proscription of Cicero.
/Thread 🧵
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#SPQRtogether
Great reflections by
#Mary
Beard on writing history and the multiple versions of Cicero’s story in Roman historiography and later Renaissance and classical scholarship,
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@HighburyTrust
@BHeritageWeek
@heritageopenday
singing World War1 songs at Highbury Hall Birmingham, commemorating the Use of the Hall 1915-1919 as a VAD Hospital
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@JaniceGreer34
This is Roget’s grave, round the corner from where I live in West Malvern, U.K. The local joke is that it has the big stone over it to say ‘P.M .Roget lies here, at rest, pushing up daisies, ready to meet his Maker, dead as a doorknob,…etc etc
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Marvellous tee shirt in the Shop at the Museum of the City of New York (they have a good exhibition on the struggle for female suffrage in the States). Wonderfully subversive.
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Elsie Howey, Malvern's very own suffragette was born OTD in 1884. Still remembered by older people in Malvern for her husky voice caused by damage from multiple episodes of force feeding. On one occasion nearly all her teeth were broken. Much respect due.
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Last of the photos from the National Parks tour
@joiedevivre9
from yesterdays visit to the Bears Ears National monument ( said ears, top left) then to the National Bridges park within the area, small, quiet with stunning stone bridges, park sign is even a stone bridge.
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Many happy returns
#thecitybeautiful100
@BirminghamCivic
Can’t get to the picnic but will be speaking tomorrow at Birmingham and Midland Institute at 1pm
@bmi1854
on Making the City Beautiful -how the poet John Drinkwater helped set up the Birmingham Civic Society
Happy Birthday to us! 100 years ago today, Birmingham Civic Society was first formed. Today, we celebrate with a FREE family picnic at
@SohoHouseMuseum
1- 4pm. We hope you can join us there.
#thecitybeautiful100
.
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Another great performance tonight of No Petticoats Here with the marvellous Louise Jordan at Bromyard, Herefordshire singing about inspiring women of World War 1
@nopetticoats
#WW1
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Lovely. Well done Suzanne and
@BirminghamCivic
#thecitybeautiful100
A little birthday GIFt from me for
@BirminghamCivic
on their 100th birthday TODAY!
#TheCityBeautiful100
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@cultcommwar
- final sentence of Marita Sturken’s presentation is really powerful, asking us to go beyond competitive memorialisation which privileges certain lives only - ‘The capacity to grieve the Other is one of the acts that make us most human’. Agreed.
@DrAliceKelly
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My daughter Alice Kelly's Zoom talk on 'Coming Home: Edith Wharton's War Stories' is Wednesday 2 September at 5pm UK time. It's based on her book Commemorative Modernisms (July 2020), email: transatlantic.women
@gmail
.com to register
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#SPQRtogether
. (1) Really interesting discussion by
#MaryBeard
about using literary analysis techniques of reading against the grain to counter a dominant viewpoint which has come down to us through history. She is speaking of Cicero and I quote her in the next tweet…
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Unsurprisingly in the vast number of words in
#BlackLamb24
I have found a typo p 315 ‘I can understand that such a ceremony as this can revive all sorts of apprehensions’ I said tartlessly…. I assume it should be tactlessly, but tartlessly is a lovely notion.
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Loie Fuller is mentioned in
#BlackLamb24
when West is discussing the Croat dancer. West doesn’t like either dancer but Fuller was remarkable as a dancer- Art Nouveau in motion, , art promoter and self made woman.See her dance in via
@YouTube
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@joiedevivre9
Not sure if I’m answering your question but I’m becoming more and more interested in the tools RW uses to keep our attention. Are the reports of what people said based on memory and a diary and rewritten in hindsight? Does her husband really say the things she attributes to him?
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Great commemorative tribute!
#thecitybeautiful100
@BirminghamCivic
We're bursting with
#civicpride
here. It's the
@BirminghamCivic
centenary year. The
#citybeautiful
@BrumHour
@TheCultureHour
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Full disclosure - this is by my youngest daughter so I am in proud Dad role here. That said, it’s well worth a read. Constructive debate never grows old.
Here's my piece for
@ConversationUK
on Peter Jackson's
#WWI
film They Shall Not Grow Old. Please share!
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@ichoosemag
There’s something quite touching about this photo of an old feller going to visit someone and taking a last minute present.
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(2) So this already makes me think about how Roman society was structured and the importance of clan and family. Also gender - in these first pages of Ch.1 the chaps are all introduced by their 3 names, even if they are soon cut down to just their family name like Cicero (cont)
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Alice Kelly introducing the afternoon session of the 3rd conference of CultCommWar - about Seeing War - am really looking forward to learning about some other wars as well as WW1
@cultcommwar
@DrAliceKelly
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Jason Larkin
@cultcommwar
giving a view as a photojournalist of how the past conflicts are presented by museums across 6 countries 2010-26, which has led him to question museum presentations more generally and collective memory-think Bletchley Park for example....
@DrAliceKelly
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Emma Hanna covering 5 elements of FWW commemoration - participatory, performative, problematic, profitable and political. Jeremy Deller's Somme Event seems to me to cover 4 of these (don't think it was profitable)
@cultcommwar
#FWWmemory
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@MichaelRosenYes
At a local authority I worked for in the 90’s Environmental Health were called out to a terraced house to look at a yellow snake curled round the cable to the light in the dining room. It has come from the pet shop next door and had worked its way through the floors and ceiling.
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#BlackLamb24
RW describes the corso in Dubrovnik, p233, ‘the street is full of all the human beings in the town that feel able to take part in the life of their kind’ -the custom of the promenade, early evening, walking out to see and be seen, happens in Spain and Italy too.
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Best wishes
@FoyerFederation
and to Alastair on this appointment. It was one of the best experiences of my life to chair the board 10 years ago and I learned so much. Good luck.
We are delighted to announce that Alastair Wilson, Chief Executive of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, has joined the Foyer Federation as the Chair of the Board of Trustees:
@prospect_us
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@todbooklady
@StroudStory
@CarolineIrwin3
@JWNairn
@SlCathy
@churchartnature
@chartres_Fiona
@PosyHill1
@mutley7781
@2019Ifaw
@JudyADoherty
And in the churchyard are the restored gravestones of two railwaymen killed in a boiler explosion in 1840. At my school in the 1960’s we had to learn the poem on the memorial to Joseph Scaife - ‘My engine now is cold and still, no water does my boiler fill etc etc. ‘
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Catalan diaspora after the Spanish Civil War brought many intellectuals to U.K.
@Civil_War_Spain
Letter, issue 99 of the CambridgeAlimni mag mentions role of Batista I Roca. Anglo Catalan website has picture of him with others, 1954. Many were still around in 70’s when I joined.
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#BlackLamb24
RW must have been feeling hungry when she described Trogir, a city on an island across a 'milk-white sea...It is one of those golden-brown cities; the colour of rich crumbling shortbread, of butterscotch, of the best pastry, sometimes of good undarkened gravy.'
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See Alice Kelly's essay in this volume on Katharine Mansfield in wartime -on a new 'political Mansfield' and need for more work on letters
Special issue of
@modcultures
on the First World War LIVE! Guest edited by
@afrayn
whose intro is open access here:
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#NYRBWomen23
Our spoons came from Woolworths. So much observation in so few words. Really acute on English class issues, on women’s lives and male attitudes. For example,ch.13, visit to her brother and his wife, and that ‘it was common to wear silk stockings in the country’.
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At Cultures and Commemorations of War conference 2,organised by Alice Kelly (full disclosure, my daughter). It's in the Orpen Room at IWM where there are 8 of his paintings including this wonderful self portrait Ready to Start
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Two walks on the hills today with
#TesstheDog
totalling 5 miles, ball catching, carrying a piece of heavy wood (that dog must have neck muscles like Charles Atlas) and a nice start to todays sunset though it was nothing special at the end.
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A wholly unexpected ( and well explained) Banksy exhibition today at the Cathedral Museum in Gallipoli, Italy. Since the Banksy pieces are scattered among the standing collection of church artefacts there are some startling juxtapositions.
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This is good news. I mentioned Concillor Cottrell in my short talk for the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Birmingham Civic Society and it’s great that
@sianllroberts
and
@BirminghamCivic
are unveiling a blue plaque to this Labour pioneer.
Looking forward to speaking about former teacher & first Labour woman Birmingham City Councillor Mary Ellen Cottrell tomorrow at
@BirminghamCivic
blue plaque unveiling
@WomensHistBham
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For
#WorldTheatreDay
here are photos of women actors in John Drinkwater's Rebellion, an early production at the
@BirminghamRep
, first purpose built Repertory Theatre in Britain, inaugural season 1913-14, costumes by Sarah Rochelle Thomas, the only known photos of her work
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Haven't found much genuinely amusing so far in
#BlackLamb24
but the description of the paintings in the first castle was funny - 'enormous flushed nudes which would have set a cannibal's mouth watering'
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Back in the UK, getting over the jet lag and reunited with
#TesstheDog
on a walk on the hills doing what she does best ( chasing and catching a ball or frisbee) and admiring the bluebells in the field and the sheer amount of yellow dandelions in the playing field.
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At tonight’s
@unibirmingham
Distinguished Lecture by Prof Margaret McMillan on the peace process after World War 1, 100 years after the Versailles Treaty. Big audience, enjoyable lecture. I did not know before that she is the great grand-daughter of David Lloyd George.
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#BlackLamb24
Trogir's history of Catharism makes RW write about Manichaeism, '...in the beginning of time a kingdom of light and a kingdom of darkness' later confused by aggression by the dark, 'the origin of the present world which Mani very aptly called The Smudge'.
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6) I went to this exhibition yesterday
@StBarbeMuseum
to find out more as the Birmingham Repertory Theatre patron and designer Barry Jackson was on the staff of the Dazzle Unit during 1917-18 thanks to the theatre Manager, John Drinkwater getting him a posting.
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Look what I woke up to find this morning. Just as the forecast said.
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4) Dazzle was about making ships all too visible but breaking up their form to confuse the eyes of Uboat commanders. It drew on new artistic approaches too such as vorticism -here is a detail from Nevinson’s Returning to the Trenches of 1915.
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A drizzly and misty walk on British Camp, part of the Malvern Hills with
#TesstheDog
today. Love the sweeping fortifications and amazed they were dug by ancient people using bone picks. For Tess though it’s just an opportunity to chase rabbits - see downhill in bottom right photo
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Well done Louise
@nopetticoats
, looking forward to your concert in Malvern on 7 October
Verdun's statue to the women of the First World War.
#WW1
#FWW
#women
#history
Continuing the
@nopetticoats
#battlefield
tour
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