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Julie Browner and Man Ray, LA, 1946
Lee Miller’s first colour snap for Vogue. @tate.bsky.social
Tony Mangan launched two journals with Frank Cass in the late 1990s. ‘Soccer and Society’ and ‘Sport in Siciety’ were ahead of their time, and have since joined IJHS in the ranks of elite outlets for sports research. RIP. @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
CHESS (January 1936)
Raymond Keene, OBE
"I turned down the OBE because it's not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who've got it." Ken Loach #honourslist 📷Mark Huba
This was our bestseller when I worked in the foreign languages dept at Foyle’s in the mid-1980s.
Chess table
This will not end well.
FT, 6-7 Dec 2025
Founded in 1867, A History of the Dublin Chess Club for #ChessTuesday with a group pic of members in its centenary year. DYK women players were admitted to the club in 1919. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social
'For Kramnik, withdrawal of his legal action against Navara could be seen as a sign of strength, not weakness.' www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra...
'The current battles over online cheating are a grimly undignified, barely intelligible mess with, as their hub, nothing better than X/Twitter.
There must be a better way.'
Fred Yates
Fred Yates (1884-1932), six-times British Chess Champion, died on this day. The Yorkshireman beat most of the great masters of his time and was in the world's top 20. He scraped a living as a player and journalist and was killed by a leak from a faulty gas fitting while asleep.
#ChessTuesday insight: Krogius reminds us it’s far more valuable to reflect on our own play than to just study the board and others 🧠♟️ 1976. #ChessPsychology from the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. @richardjameschess.bsky.social ecfchess Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature #garylanechess
Hilary Thomas.
There were indeed only two issues - the project bankrupted the publisher, who is serving a long prison sentence for various serious crimes.
The Story of the Dundee Chess Club (1984) for #ChessTuesday from its foundation in 1847, to its win of the Richardson Cup and a visit from Alekhine and beyond. Plus a gorge cover! From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library.@richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature @garylanechess
‘After 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, Leonard Barden is still going strong. In all that time he has never missed a week – rain or shine, in sickness and in health. And now, officially, he is a record-breaker.’
By @seaningle.bsky.social
Paganini’s chess set. #Genoa
Happy birthday to Leonard Barden (96) whose Guardian chess column is 69.
Black to play and win.
Young chess star Shambavi Hariharan sparkles at the English Championships. oxfordcitychessclub.com/news/
Me too.
George Thomas reached two #Wimbledon semi-finals and four quarter-finals between 1907 and 1912.
Sir George Thomas on chess obsession and Rubinstein's deathwish. www.kingpinchess.net/2025/07/a-cr...
Chess and the Nazis www.kingpinchess.net/2025/07/ches...
A call from Leonard Barden saves the world championship match. The Field, 13 July 1972
Well played!
