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18 days ago by Stevi

A lot of high end liquors try to sell you with a story. Martin Miller’s Gin has quite a doozy – after distillation, the raw spirit is shipped from England to Iceland to be combined with water to bring it to proof. Fin de Siècle I can tell you after receiving a sample bottle, and having enjoyed it in ...

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34 days ago by Luke Lefler

David Abel, Marko Whens, Tony Christy and Leo Daedalus We love what we do at Show and Tell Gallery Productions, and we ask for no more than a bit of attention paid to those whom we bring to the stage. Melissa Sillitoe signs them up, Nikia Cummings spreads the word and I gruffly co-produce and captur ...

Baron Landscape's Broken Hours - brokenhours.net/blog · 9 references

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37 days ago by rcahistoryofdesign

Drawing upon understudied collections of circus and theatre ephemera, Rachael’s work explores the ways in which female perfomers utilised objects to cultivate alternative, often overtly erotic, performance selves before proceeding to examine the movement of sexualised images of female perfomers into ...

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37 days ago by rcahistoryofdesign

Divided into three main chapters; British Socialism in the late-nineteenth century and the growing Arts and Crafts Movement; Crane’s decorative, commercial and political art and thirdly his role as an educator, Louise’s work aims to explore the relationship between Crane’s political and artistic phi ...

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42 days ago by Callum

I was delighted on Tuesday last to be invited to Maggs Bros sumptuous shop in Berkeley Square (and one of the most haunted houses in London I'm told), for an evening in memory of Baron Corvo and his most dedicated fan, the late Donald Weeks. It has been a number of years now since Weeks's death and ...

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46 days ago by Sister Pistol of Mindful Patience

*guinea pig noises* *MASSIVE GUINEA PIG NOISES!* It's entirely possible that I have just sold another story. My second sale, my first as a solo writer. Awww yeah. Who is the Queen of gay historical Frech hustlers? WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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79 days ago by Sister Pistol of Mindful Patience

Either later this evening Right. Later today, or this afternoon, I will be finishing my current project and need the input of someone who is willing to read and give me a quick once-over. If you're interested, here's what you'd be getting into: A historical romance, set in 1890's Paris, featuring a ...

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79 days ago by Business Leadership

There is a growing feeling of “fin de siecle” in Brussels these days, a sense of degeneration, of euro-depression. But people across the European Union do not seem to care. The collective EU leadership is widely seen as weak and demoralised and the Czech government has collapsed in the middle

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96 days ago by louche

Richard Marsh’s The Beetle and Bram Stoker’s Dracula were both published in 1897 - and The Beetle, believe it or not, outsold Dracula, and not just by a small margin: it was a runaway best-seller. This might surprise you, as it certainly did me, as I’d never heard of it before the start of this acad ...

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99 days ago by Lilian Nattel

It was written in the 1890’s, the time of the Yellow Book, the fin de siecle, when literature explored subjects previously forbidden under the supposition that literature was supposed to be uplifiting, provide a moral example. The fin de siecle authors wrote about affairs, sex outside of marriage, i ...

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