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Gay rights and lesbian visibility

By Jill Gardiner / 7 January 2020 / Comments Off on Gay rights and lesbian visibility

…Microcosm [2] The Microcosm (1967 Panther ed.): 271 [3] Barber, Dulan (1973) ‘Maureen Duffy talking to Dulan Barber’ Transatlantic Review Vol. 45 Spring 1973: 7 [4] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013h930] accessed 26.10.20. [5]…

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Dickensfest

By Clare Brant / 1 May 2012 /

…– T.S. Eliot, Peter Ackroyd and Dickens (in that order!) – had all been drawn to explore London at night, darkly. The writer might have mentioned Virginia Woolf as another…

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Finding Maureen Duffy in the Archives

By Patricia Methven / 7 January 2020 / Comments Off on Finding Maureen Duffy in the Archives

…propose to cover five themes: ‘what the College Archives tell us’, ‘the imperative to write’, ‘evidence of working methods’, ‘the genesis of ideas’, and ‘rights’ or ‘why writing matters’. I…

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Moving Past Present: Digitally Reanimating the Gaiety Girls

By Rob Gallagher / 6 March 2017 /

…to sharing more of the material we discovered and created in the course of the project on Strandlines. Dr. Rob Gallagher Postdoctoral researcher, King’s College London Ego-Media Project @r_gealga http://kcl.academia.edu/RobGallagher…

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Göttingen and the Strand: Publishers and Princes

By Michael Trapp / 15 January 2018 /

…German state of Hanover. And it was under the patronage of George III’s father, George II, Georg-August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Hannover), that Hanover’s university, the Georg-August-Universität was founded in Göttingen in…

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Dan Kirmatzis: Strand series

By Strandlines Editors / 27 April 2020 /

…simply as a photographer. The medium of photography lends itself to categorisation, so I’m often asked if I’m a portrait-, street-, documentary-, or still-life- photographer.   Whilst my preferred medium…

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Monet’s Pied-à-terre

By Théophraste Fady / 9 September 2019 /

…below were painted from his Savoy window, and the third from St Thomas’s. Left: Waterloo bridge (1903), by Claude Monet (via Claude-Monet.com)   Right: Charing Cross bridge (1899-1901), by Claude…

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ADAM: “four artists in an office off the Strand”

By Francesca Allfrey / 25 January 2021 /

…work by @mariannelwalker, @a_aaartist, @samcarvosso, and @harry.gammer_flitcroft; 002 included @tabsclouds, @tobyupsonofficial, @healing.grotto and @araceli.gomezcastro; 003 featured @______prawn, @konrad_jakubowsky, @tom_railton and @kimmi_mcintosh. Find work from each series on the ADAM Instagram…

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Alienation on the Strand; Solitude in Street Haunting

By James Mumford / 30 November 2020 /

…to find in the reconciliation of these a new profound understanding. I cannot recommend it enough – particularly for lonely first-years on the Strand. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Consulted Works: Virginia Woolf, Street…

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The Adelphi and Robert Adam

By Paul G. / 1 October 2020 /

…the Adelphi, London, 2017 (accessible at https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/survey-of-london/tag/adelphi/) [7] G H Gater and E P Wheeler (ed), Survey of London: Volume 18, St Martin-in-The-Fields II: the Strand, London, 1937, pp. 99-102…

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