Tag Archives: Great Britain

2010: Basilica

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Matt Simmonds: Basilica III (2010) (source)

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1880: The House

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)

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1962: Nurses’ March

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

April 1, 1962: 8,000 union nurses march for higher pay in Trafalgar Square, London. In 1958, at the worst stage of the recession, the Conservative government took a firm stand against pay increases and, having won the busmen’s strike in … Continue reading →

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2013: Struggle

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Avery: Untitled (Duculi) (2013) (source)

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1703: Forseeing Things to Come

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1703, the Scottish writer Martin Martin published A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. : Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion … Continue reading →

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1875: A Day Less for Examination

Posted on August 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Evelyn De Morgan: Life drawing of a seated male model inscribed “A Day Less for Examination” [detail] (1875) (source)

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1919: Buffer Girls

Posted on August 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Rothenstein: Buffer Girls (1919) “Buffer girls” were women workers in the Sheffield metal industries who polished cutlery and silverware.

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1825: Vale of Honey

Posted on July 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

The most contentious aspect of [the mid-19th-century British project to survey Ireland, 1825–46] is the way in which place names were anglicized, replaced by English alternatives or simply mis-recorded….Irish names were altered…mostly through the processes of “dictation” in which a … Continue reading →

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1894: Ministered to by Angels

Posted on July 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

James Tissot: Jesus Ministered to by Angels (1886-1894)

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1968: Collect Them All

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

1968 “MATCHBOX” collector’s catalogue.

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