Very Victorian in style.
23.02.2026 16:30
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Very Victorian in style.
Haha. I see what you mean. I think HMP Leeds and Lincoln look very similar in this respect too.
😆 - although I do remember watching the Hull Prison Riots on television back in the Summer of '76.
Gotta love Sluggo, an old time museum guard.
Nice. I'll be in Hull later this week, down Hedon Road way (the cemetery not the clink😀)
Film director Carlos Saura's empathetic lens on the poverty striken Spain of the early 1950s. Perhaps many of these people had moved to the cities within a decade. Many on today's Spanish right seem nostalgic for the social relations, deference and power structure which governed those years.
Chubby-faced baby smiling for the camera, 1960s.
Seriously looking like a diet of beef dripping and marmite soldiers for me, swigged down with a bottle of stone ginger pop.
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Drawing in black, red and blue coloured pencil, captioned a Paris beauty: it depicts the head and shoulders of a white woman facing left in profile with her face in heavy shade inside a blue and red border. She is dressed in a very chic 1940s fashion with coiffed dark hair
A Paris Beauty, created c.1940s, by an individual who was compelled to live at Netherne Hospital.
This drawing on the fly leaf of a library book predates the art therapy studio there: such existing creativity using purloined & improvised materials led directly to the studio’s establishment in 1946
Two books: Matthew Stibbe "Civilian Internment during the First World War" and Panikos Panayi "Prisoners of Britain"
Some weekend reading. #Internment
😆You're right. He has moved about a bit - and I think he may well be living at Woodhouse Moor...along with Queen Victoria.
Nice. Sir Robert Peel standing aside the former Courthouse (Post Office), and what is possibly a contingent of the 4th West York Militia. St. Anne's RC Cathedral can be seen at the top of Park Row. I always find the inclusion of dogs at play a welcome addition in these type of illustrations. 🐶😀
Front cover of 'Bethlem Hospital: A History of Care and Control' by Evelyn Cross. The image shows a Victorian (?) institution viewed through open gates. Two statues stand on the gate posts
So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.
Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.
Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...
...I stumbled onto this book.
And not just you: have you seen this statement from the ICRC? www.icrc.org/en/article/i... The implication is that people are accusing them of hiding records that AI insists exist but has actually just hallucinated.
Perfect Sunday afternoon listening.
Pancho Barnes was one of the stunt flyers. A remarkable lady who more than cemented her name on aviation history.
Our first talk of 2026 is on 21 January at the Grosvenor Museum by Prof Tim Grady of @HistArchChester on German War Graves and the British: The Great Exhumation Mission of 1962.
Non-members very welcome [£5 cash/cheque at the door].
Indeed...and the tour guide's personalisation of 'Jack' in the opening scenes of Ep. 2 was like listening to someone referring to the Yorkshire Ripper as 'Peter'.
Josep (2020). Powerful animated film about Catalan artist Josep Bartolí's experiències after the Spanish Civil War in a French concentration camp and his relationship gendarme, and later in Mexican exile with Frida Kahlo. www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ja...
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It's the liminal space you mention in the original post, and that between the abandonment and the body politic and the pretence that the situation is improving under the present incumbent.
Sports but make it art
Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua (2025) / Francis Bacon, “Self Portrait with Injured Eye” (1972)
I like the look of the texture. This looks quite tactile.
That feeling when you find 60 pages of unpublished and unedited interviews with survivors from the My Lai Massacre...
Photo is from the CID investigation at My Lai, Nov 1969. Incense sticks have been placed in cans from the C-rations left by Charlie Company.
Theatre bill for A Christmas Carol, Leeds Playhouse, 20 November 2025 - 17 January 2026.
Stage at Leeds Playhouse showing part of the set for A Christmas Carol with large illuminous clock in the background, 17 December 2025.
I thoroughly enjoyed the matinee performance of A Christmas Carol at the Leeds Playhouse yesterday. A fabulous reworking of the script by Deborah McAndrew and expertly delivered by Reese Dinsdale and cast. Great to see "signing" used in parts of the performance too. #ChristmasCarol #Scrooge
Is that "Glenda Brownlow" in the opening shot? I also thought I saw "David Hunter" moonlighting in an episode of Dr Who I was watching the other night.
Glad you managed to resolve the till/telex conundrum!
Yes. Both very dark and uncompromising depending on the storyline and part played by each.
I was playing with the idea of looking at the role of Pulcinella and Commedia dell’arte as a theme for my u/grad dissertation many years ago. My research interests had changed by the third year, focusing on the rise of the juvenile delinquent in the mid-19th century instead.
A 'blink and you miss it' system of ginnels from memory. Is the route fairly unique, do you think, in terms of what it offers at either end? Some of the ginnels I remember were haphazard and probably unplanned affairs in and around the heavy industrial areas. Eg. Holbeck and Hunslet.
Stanley Baxter: "Mr Christmas" to many and a great panto dame.
