Tag: historical
Hafez and Jones: Poets United for Peace
(Above) frieze at University College, Oxford chapel showing Sir William Jones taking notes from Hindi speakers and scholars, (top) roof of Hafez tomb …
Read moreThe Making – and Unmanning – of the Welsh Collier
MIners’ houses, Trealaw, Rhondda Valley by Isabel Alexander, from Miner’s Day. Miner’s Day by BL Coombes, with illustrations [‘Rhondda images’] …
Read moreThe Bloodless Boy
London, New Year’s Day 1678, twelve years after the Great Fire and eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell’s republic and the restoration of the mo …
Read moreLady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
I began reading Victoria Owen’s account of Lady Charlotte Guest, knowing little about Lady Charlotte and what she accomplished. On concluding the book …
Read moreAnna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
The genesis of Anna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles was her research into Gwen John’s letters and diaries as part of a residency at the A …
Read moreOdetta in Babylon and the Canada Express
Published in 1968, twelve years after Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Gregorio Kohon’s Odetta in Babylon and the Canada Express was, if not quite a landmark, t …
Read moreThe History of Wales in Twelve Poems, A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Welsh Poetry
The art of the poetry anthology is a competitive arena. You have the celeb selections (Amis on Larkin, Cerys Matthews on her whims), the ‘authoritativ …
Read moreThe Queen of Romance, Marguerite Jervis: A Biography by Liz Jones
Bookclub discussing the biography, The Queen of Romance, by Liz Jones, about the mass-selling romance novelist Marguerite Jervis (1886-1964), who was …
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