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Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Vis…
3 years, 5 months ago
1922: Wimbledon
In a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – the year the BBC was founded – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the…
3 years, 5 months ago
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets …
3 years, 5 months ago
1922: Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Touki Bouki
A motorbike adorned with a zebu skull is one of the central images of Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film, whose title translates as The Journey…
3 years, 5 months ago
Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson is the subject of a BFI season and in this film she plays part of a love triangle in John Schlesinger's follow up to his Oscar winning…
3 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Archiving the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth ties
From the kit for athletes to interviews which tell us the impact of race times changing – Islam Issa hears about an oral history project in Scotland …
3 years, 5 months ago
Futurism
"The beauty of speed. Time and space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created the eternal, omnipresent speed." Part o…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modernism around the world
Murals which aimed to synthesise the history and culture of Mexico, Japanese novels exploring urban alienation, an exhibition of Bauhaus paintings fr…
3 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping
How a disaster in the 1922 led to new thinking about record keeping. Ahead of the ICHORA conference Dr William Butler, Head of Military Records and …
3 years, 5 months ago