I had a great day yesterday seeing the author Amy Key. I also bought the book and got her singange at the emd of the conversation ( Read more... )

Eric Hobsbawm "Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz" (Abacus)


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Sometimes I have this magpie mind picking up facts and snippets of info from all over the place, and the net. This was one such snippet that intrigued me enough to read.

What did classical composers say about the Beatles?If I remember rightly, the composer and musicologist Wilfred Mellors, who was a professor of music at the University of York, ( Read more... )

I watched another fascinating Arena arts program on BBC iPlayer. It was called
B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011v76/arena-b-catling-where-does-it-all-come-from?xtor=ES-211-[48792_PANUK_DIV_47_IPL_Editorial2021_RET_ABC]-20211127-[bbcfour_arenabcatlingwheredoesitallcomefrom_factualarts]An eye- ( Read more... )

Today is another day to celebrate females as this day is the date that British women first got the vote a century ago. Apart from the well known suffragette movement , its militant wing, there was thousands of ordinary women, known as suffragists, who campaigned successfully to have their voices heard too ( Read more... )

Many many years ago when i did Open University one of the second level courses i took was on The Enlightenment. A fascinating area of history and arts. One of my favourite painters from that period is Caspar David Friedrich whom was an 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter and generally considered the most important German artist of his ( Read more... )

This is probably my favourite Pre-Raphaelite painting. It is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the painting is called "Beata Beatrix".


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I shall be reading more about the Italian Renaissance today, as i picked this book up for fifty pence in Faversham on Monday, and will be taking it along with me on my visits.


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Today after the portentous wet rained out morning i took a trip over to Miadstone when the sun came out. I did a visit to Next and purchased some after shave cologne. I then took the bus over to Chatham to do a visit to a travel agents.

Whilst in Maidstone i picked up four books at fifty pence each in The Works January Sale.

These are -

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A trip to Tunbridge Wells yesterday to do three visits. Also had enough time to peruse Halls Bookshop again , and picked up a few bargains , particularly this one for 50 pence -


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