1930s

The Rise and Fall of Spurious George

Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…

2 years ago

Ronald Blythe, Akenfield, and The Age of Illusion

I follow the art historian Richard Morris on Twitter and his tweets are a daily delight - each one providing…

2 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

4 years ago

Aubade

An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. By the 1930's it was…

7 years ago

Before Disaster

"Fool and scoundrel guide the State." That's true enough. In the early 1930's when this was written speeding traffic on…

8 years ago

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

15 years ago