Tagged With: UK
Donegal locals campaign to turn beached boat into work of art.
Ireland Bád Eddie, AKA Eddie’s Boat, on a beach in Gweedore, County Donegal, has featured in a Clannad video. Photograph: Brian Lawrence/Alamy Fishing vessel Bád Eddie has become a tourist attraction since being abandoned on a Gweedore beach in 1977 link to article
Architects hope to tear down garden fences of England’s future homes.
Finalists in design contest plan communal gardens to boost social integration on estates Direct link to The Guardian By Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent Sun 23 Aug 2020 15.13 BST Igloo has proposed car-free, self-build estates with communal gardens. Photograph: Homes for the Future Could it be farewell to the traditional back garden? Architects shortlisted by … Continuer la lecture
A fascinating guided tour of 500 years of Medicine History
Featuring three thousand objects and covering an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is the magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world. Showcasing extraordinary medical artefacts from the collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum Group, including the world’s first MRI scanner, Fleming’s penicillin mould, … Continuer la lecture
18th and 19th centuries Indian painting: when Art meets History
Guest curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an unprecedented opportunity to see these vivid and highly original paintings … Continuer la lecture
Steve McQueen unveils his epic portrait of London’s Year 3 pupils
Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen unveils his epic portrait of London’s Year 3 pupils This epic display of portraits appears in a year when Britain’s education system has been challenged as never before. These photographs of all Year 3 pupils in London schools show the old ordinary life with entire classes posed … Continuer la lecture
Tackling racism on social media : who is responsible?
Tackling racism on social media is just the tip of the iceberg By Owen Jones Amid the anger over Wiley’s bigoted tirade, let’s not forget the newspapers that have been peddling prejudice for years ‘Grime artist Wiley – with his half a million followers – unleashed a tirade of undiluted antisemitism on to … Continuer la lecture
Robert Burns : the making of a national figure
University of Glasgow introduces you to the life, works and global celebrity of Robert Burns
Giving Life: from Myth to Reality
WHO GIVES LIFE TO WHOM ? Here are some examples that will give you some ideas … Michelangelo’s painting : the creation of Adam The Myth of Prometheus Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Isaac Asimov’s short story : True Love Why do some people write stories and become writers ? Here … Continuer la lecture
Women, their roles and their fights
Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain from the BBC gender in 19th Century Britain the role of women gender and morality The Fight of the Suffragettes in America from HISTORY.com The Fight for the Vote in Britain Emma Watson Speech at the UN He for She Campaign Advertising : fighting stereotypes … Continuer la lecture
The Thought-Fox
Poem read by author THE THOUGHT-FOX I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness: Cold, delicately as the dark snow, A fox’s … Continuer la lecture
