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People of the Strand: Alice and Kimberley at Two Temple Place

By Francesca Allfrey / 29 June 2020 /

…from their blog ‘Voices from Two Temple Place’. I can’t recommend the blog enough, and applaud the blog’s mission to be an ‘inclusive online platform dedicated to showcasing the many…

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Events Programme for February 26-6 March 2019

By Clare Brant / 3 February 2019 /

…is hosting a series of events in association with CLWR as part of the Arts & Humanities Research Institute’s pop-up research studios, taking place in KCL’s East Wing (Surrey Street,…

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Digging in the Archives with Patricia Methven: An Interview

By Clare Brant / 30 September 2012 /

…including teaching doctoral students, developing online teaching packages, escorting distinguished visitors, organizing events, and of course managing the Archive Service, special collections and Information Management. Her work also gives Patricia…

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Moving Past Present: Digitally Reanimating the Gaiety Girls

By Rob Gallagher / 6 March 2017 /

In the 1890s the Strand’s Gaiety theatre became famous as the home of a new genre: the musical comedy. The brainchild of Irish impressario George Edwardes, musical comedies like A…

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‘Gaiety George’ and the Making of Modern Celebrity

By Rob Gallagher / 13 September 2017 /

…Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy. London: Praeger, p.20 [v] Gundle, Glamour, p.130 [vi] Ibid. [vii] Constance Collier (1929). Harlequinade: The Story of My Life. London: John Lane, p.61 [viii] Thomas…

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Thirteen Lions

By Rob Gallagher / 17 September 2018 /

The work of illustrator, graphic designer and game maker Maz Hemming, Thirteen Lions is a webcomic retelling the story of the Gunpowder Plot. It’s now being published online in instalments….

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Strandlions

By Clare Brant / 25 September 2018 /

…Sotheby’s in 2015 amid great excitement for £9.3 million. More usually lions mouths’ feature as fountains, as if water poured out like truth. Perhaps it does. The roar coming from…

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Class of 2020: Graduating From a Distance

By Sarah Mir / 17 April 2020 /

…without change […] But the people knew Time, and in the Township lamps flicked into life like fairy lights. Here and there the lights came on behind shabby curtains […]…

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Fruity Wordplay and Weird Forests: Now Play This 2019

By Rob Gallagher / 9 April 2019 /

…year the theme is community. In many cases, this means works designed to spur competition and collaboration – works like Patrick LeMieux’s Octopad, in which the duties usually assigned to…

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A Gondola Party at The Savoy

By Théophraste Fady / 29 July 2019 /

…each screaming out for more research! The Savoy’s Early History: At the time of the Gondola party, the Savoy was relatively new to the ever-expanding London metropole, and even newer…

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