Singing the century
Folk is in vogue. So much so that in July 2011 the folk scene’s brightest young things appeared across the glossy pages of the world’s most stylish magazine. It could be said, however, that without the...
View ArticleBack on the road to Wigan Pier
It is the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, in which he travelled to the north of England to see how ‘the poor’ lived. In his new book, The Road to Wigan...
View ArticlePenguin Pool, London Zoo: A Modernist Parable
From his arrival in Britain in 1931 the Georgian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin brought his experience of the Soviet revolution in 1917 and the turbulent debates about art and politics in Paris in...
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