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The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022)

Simon

‘For the first time since the eighteenth century, England is making a real contribution to an international art.’ (Nicolete Gray, impresario of the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition, 1936. But was it?) ‘The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars’ by Frances Spalding is a...

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British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)

Lawrence

The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original research on all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by British colonialism before...

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Grief in the Cinema

Lawrence

‘It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees.’ Do you know that Joni Mitchell song? ‘I wish I had a river I could skate away on?’ It’s such a sad song, and not really about Christmas at all, but I was thinking about it tonight as I was decorating my Christmas tree and unwrapping funky...

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