Art, Film, Photography

Bitter Strawberries

     Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…

7 years ago

My gaze is clear as a sunflower

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

7 years ago

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...…

7 years ago

Partition

"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details,"  - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…

7 years ago

Under the Radar: The Hedge Hoppers and the Hardest Day

After early mist the morning of Sunday August 18 1940 was bright with clear skies. It came to be known…

7 years ago

The Land Girl

The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…

7 years ago

Ballad of the Three Spectres

In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…

7 years ago

Mud Soup

Some culinary disasters can be repurposed. Here is Glen Baxter on polenta: And then there are times when you just…

7 years ago

Russian – American Romance

Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…

7 years ago

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…

7 years ago