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[oursin]

Just too late for IBARW:

So horrific are the images conjured up by 'Strange Fruit' that Billie Holiday always performed it with her eyes closed. Caryl Phillips, who used the title for his first play, traces the song's dark history.

Australian novelist Kate Grenville found success with novels about her country's violent history.

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[forthwritten]

I'm sure I remember seeing posters for a club night called "strange fruit"...not quite sure what the promoters were thinking, or indeed if they were.

I'm looking forward to the International Slavery Museum opening - the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery was very interesting if occasionally not terribly accessible (lots of printed information, which I liked and read most of but which my friends read a bit more selectively). Having spoken to several people involved in the project, I'd be interested to see what form it takes.

[chickenfeet2003]

EEEEEE! these were even scarier as a full-page spread in the Guardian Weekend Magazine

I grew up in that wretched town and now lemur_catta wants a set.

Styles and Vickery

[jonquil]

And Amazon goes ka-ching!

However, this: "In the 1780s, the traveller John Byng was one of many to note that fashionable display was now not limited to the wealthy. "I meet milkmaids on the road with the dress and looks of Strand misses."

has been the complaint for as long as there have been social classes. Why did they keep passing and passing and PASSING sumptuary laws? Because people have always bought the finest clothes they could afford, proper places be damned.

[clanwilliam]

Re the meerkats: I look forward to breaking m31andy's brain with those.

No, no, I had nothing to do with a certain magazine being dedicated to meerkats recently.

[ankaret]

*joins you and Ben Goldacre in horror*

I think that actually trumps the time that a cheery young volunteer at the holiday playscheme for children at my brother Gavin's school climbed into the minibus, noticed two Downs Syndrome kids and announced brightly 'Oh! Are they brothers?'