Kim Newman. The story of ‘the first Noel’ is so steeped in violence that no film version of the Nativity has been able to cope with it. Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Non-Christmas Christmas Cinema
One of the best things about Christmas is the sheer volume of films on the television schedule. I’m sure many, if not all of you, have by now bought the Christmas Radio Times, reached for your favourite highlighter pen and marked which films you want to watch, sky + or illegally download. As our blog … Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 7
A.Y. Jackson, Le Calvaire or Wayside Cross, Saint-Urbain, 1929, Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 66 cm, Private collection Continue reading »
Have Yourself a Henry James Christmas
Henry James left America for England in 1876 and stayed for the next three decades. Here, taken from his travel memoir English Hours, James describes a late-19th century Christmas spent in the North of England. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 6
William Morris, Woodpecker, 1885* Continue reading »
El Estudiante (The Student): Film Review
Jens Andermann. Continue reading »
Arthur O’Shaughnessy: The Original Mover and Shaker
Dinah Roe. Continue reading »
English Traits and the British Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson visited England twice. The first unpublished in 1833, the second as a celebrated essayist in 1847. Here, from English Traits, Emerson gives his two-cents on The Times’ influence in Victorian society. Continue reading »
Escaping Chelmno
Patrick Montague. Chelmno was the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibór, and Belzec. Within days of opening, the first attempts to escape occured. Continue reading »
Capital Sentences
James Gregory. Continue reading »
