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Thursday, December 19, 2013

The End

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Here endeth the blog. Thanks for your interest - particularly to those of you who have taken the trouble to contact me over the past few y...

Jurgen Schadeberg at Hensol

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This photograph shows patients at Hensol Castle hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan. The building, a castellated mansion in the gothic styl...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

I'r Gad

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I'r Gad is a splendid collection of photographic images that records in book form half-a-century's worth of Welsh-language prote...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Teen Anthems

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It's the parenthetical addition that makes it a contender for best song title ever. I Hate Oasis (And I Hate The Beatles) remains an a...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Iris Murdoch in Cardiff

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In 1980 writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch  was in Cardiff in preparation for the debut performance of The Servants . This was a three ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Coming Out

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Coming Out (1977) was one of the key gay texts of the 1970s. In his book leftist author Jeffrey Weeks charted the emergence of a modern ...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Hot Lips Pub in Merthyr

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There are theme pubs and then there are theme pubs. You can keep your faux oirish bars, give me a drinking-hole based upon '70s telev...
Friday, December 06, 2013

William Vandivert in Pant-Y-Waun

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These two great portraits were taken by American photographer William Vandivert in April, 1940. According to captions they were part o...