It’s time we started thinking differently about the Weimar Republic. Continue reading »
Tag Archives: History
A Rebel on the Imperial Throne
Making Caligula blush, Elagabalus – one of the most notorious of Rome’s ‘bad emperors’ – has become a counter-cultural hero. Continue reading »
A Witness to the Spanish Civil War
After being destroyed during the blitz, Henry Buckley’s chronicle of the Spanish Civil War is now available for the first time in 70 years. Continue reading »
Going East
More accessible than America as a destination of escape for migrating populations, the Banat of Temesvár region of Hungary, Romania and Serbia offered the promise of ‘golden mountains’ to thousands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Continue reading »
Caricaturing Charlatans: Depictions of Science in the French Revoltion
Claire Trévien casts an eye over portrayals of magic in the early years of the French Revolution. Continue reading »
‘Twas the night of All Hallows’
Looking for Halloween in the nineteenth-century. Continue reading »
Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Imitation
It may seem cliché, but Charlie Chaplin’s mother provided him an almost infinite source of raw material to fashion into comic and sentimental themes. Continue reading »
The Lancashire Witches
The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England’s most notorious witch-trial – here Philip Almond recounts the drama and paranoia of those volatile times. Continue reading »
‘Songs for the Masses’: Political Expression in the Victorian Music Hall
Fern Riddell. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 36
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket, 1875, oil on panel, 60.2 x 46.7 cm, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit) Continue reading »
