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Lakes, sonnets and cinematographs
H.D. Rawnsley, via Wikipedia If you visit the Lake District, there is one name in particular that is both omnipresent and yet almost completely invisible. There is much that promotes, celebrates or...
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Just a Brixton shop girl
Postcard of Margaret Leahy, “The Daily Sketch Girl” The first feature film that Buster Keaton directed, The Three Ages, is not perhaps as familiar as it should be. A comic history of love in...
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Harry Short – a marginal life
Filming the 1895 Derby. Image via BFI I find this photograph fascinating. Not for the man with the motion picture camera that looks like some form of primitive machine gun, not for the late Victorian...
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Harmony constant
Michael Nesmith, from the cover of Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash Michael Nesmith has died. You feel like a part of you has disappeared when a voice that has been at the back of your head for as...
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The floor of heaven
The Eisinga Planetarium Down a roadside divided by a canal, in the Dutch town of Franeker, you come across a smart museum frontage close to to a traditional Dutch brick building bearing the word...
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The lost garden of Evelyn Dunbar
Evelyn Dunbar, ‘Herbaceous Border at The Cedars’ (c.1934), via Liss Llewellyn Ever since Eden was lost, we have been trying to find it again. Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors that followed him...
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Lines on a poet and a scientist
Miroslav Holub (via Bloodaxe Books) The poet was a scientist The scientist was a poet The one always saw the world with the eyes of the other ‘In the microscope’, for instance Here too are cemeteries,...
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100 portraits of Frank Auerbach
Promotional video for the Frank Auerbach exhibition An exhibition is currently running at the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert gallery in London: Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits. It brings together...
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Charles Darwin’s daily round
Down House Down House, Charles Darwin’s home for forty years, lies in the village of Downe, south of Orpington in what is technically the London Borough of Bromley, but is a part of Kent really. Darwin...
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O Pioneers!
Alice Rosenthal, via Science Museum Group, CC BY 4.0 I have two definitions of what history is, which I wrote years ago and have repeated several times thereafter – and here they are again: 1. History...
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Stephen Herbert
Stephen Herbert (with reconstruction of a William Friese Greene/Frederick Varley stereoscopic camera) On 21 February 1996, the former Regent Polytechnic Theatre at the University of Westminster hosted...
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