East India Dock Road, site of Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest forms part of the A13, which links Aldgate in the City of London to Shoeburyness, forty miles away on the shore of the North Sea – so, not the most obvious place to build a refuge for seafarers.
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, literature, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, history, literature, poetry, Rosie Johnston • 0 Comments
Rosie Johnston congratulates Paul McLoughlin for taking on the challenge of rendering these ancient poems in contemporary English
by Jane McChrystal • history, politics, society, year 2019 • Tags: history, Jane McChrystal, politics, society • 0 Comments
At the end of part one of this article, we saw the arrival of Nellie Cressall on the Isle of Dogs.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, history, poetry, politics, year 2019 • Tags: authors, history, Neil Curry, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
Neil Curry indulges in a brief speculation on a recent parallel to a historical moment in the 17th century
by Barbara Lewis • design, exhibitions, fashion, history, society, year 2019 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, design, exhibitions, fashion, history, society •
If Brexit is the result of a backward-looking nostalgia, the Swinging London of the Chelsea Set was the opposite: it marked a determination to move on from the devastation and austerity left by World War II.
by Jane McChrystal • history, politics, society, year 2019 • Tags: history, Jane McChrystal, politics, society •
In 1962 The Westinghouse Corporation made a documentary film exploring the state of the nation as Britain continued to register the aftershocks of war, adjusted to the loss of empire and witnessed the erosion of its status as a world-class industrial nation.
by Stephanie Sears • art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, theatre, writing, year 2019 • Tags: art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, history, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, Stephanie V Sears, theatre, writing •
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, year 2019 • Tags: books, history, Neil Fulwood, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
Neil Fulwood considers Edward Mackinnon’s forceful poetic dissection of 75 years of war
by Jane McChrystal • exhibitions, history, photography, politics, society, year 2019 • Tags: exhibitions, history, Jane McChrystal, photography, politics, society •
If you can get along to Bethnal Green in the next three weeks, I highly recommend a visit to this exhibition of photographs. They document a dramatic period in the history of the East London.
by Jane McChrystal • architecture, design, exhibitions, history, society, year 2019 • Tags: architecture, design, exhibitions, history, Jane McChrystal, society •
The Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin once declared “Nothing is too Good for Ordinary People”* and as a founder of the radical Tecton group he designed municipal housing which combined the creation of healthy spaces, where people could live healthy lives, with the expression of his modernist aesthetic.
by Constance Woodring • history, politics, psychology, society, year 2020 • Tags: Connie Woodring., history, politics, psychology, society •
The Ugly Side of Beauty. Connie Woodring discusses the downside of our beauty culture as it relates to women’s physical/mental health and safety.