A springtime posy of linkspam

[oursin]

Dept of, this makes historian and archivist cringe:
Marriages are Made in Bond Street by Penrose Halson review.
This person has apparently obtained ownership of, or at least access to, the archive of the Heather Jenner Marriage Bureau: 'the agency and its archive eventually ended up in the hands of Penrose Halson, the author of this book' - enquiring minds would like to know a bit more about that - and has written up this fascinating record of social history in a manner that both the reviews I've read of it so far find deplorable: She has written up the Bureau’s history in the camp style of a Boots Library romance, which has a certain period appropriateness but is otherwise intensely annoying.
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Can I get a resounding AAAAARGH and then get out a codfish?
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Dept of, erasure of pioneers:
Homintern by Gregory Woods review, in which the author is described as 'a pathbreaker for gay studies in academia' for a study published in 1987 (channels K Williams going 'Infamy!!').
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Dept of, give this man this week's Dorothy Parker tribute award:
“describing De Botton as a thinker is like calling someone who just about knows how to turn on a tap a hydraulics engineer”
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Dept of, if only this WAS a surprise and a shock:
She takes a good picture: six forgotten female pioneers of photography.
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Dept of, okay, I think he has a point, but I still think the ponceyness police need to keep an eye on him, possibly issue an informal warning:
Lonely rangers: the dark side of westerns.
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Dept of Commemorations:
The lives of others: 150 years of London’s blue plaques.
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Dept of Nothing New Under The Sun, Condemned to Repeat It, etc etc:
The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale review - penny dreadfuls take the rap for a Victorian murder, plus ca change.
Today’s worship of children borders on the perverse - again, I have a feeling that I have read similar diatribes concerning earlier generations - usually formulated as 'when I was little the family patriarch got the best bits at the dinner table, now I'm the family patriarch the children do'. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2440927.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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