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Join us on Friday 15 November 2024 for the ‘European Political Refugees in the UK from 1800’ conference taking place in Pigott Theatre, Knowledge Centre at the British Library. This one-day in-person event will explore the rich history of political refugees from Europe who sought asylum in the UK from...

If you really want to visit Gas Alley today, you’ll have a bit of an adventure. Less than 300 feet in length, Gas Alley runs south from Longworth Hall to Mehring Way. It is paved with cobblestones interrupted by patches of gravel and surrounded by warehouses, a couple of light industrial sheds and a Duke Energy substation. There’s a street sign at the southern terminus.No evidence remains of the little …

Barbara Stanwyck enters the 1930 film "Ladies of Leisure" -- and film history -- in a rowboat. The oars squeak. Her face is marked by mascara-streaked tears and she's clutching a broken dress strap. She's Kay, a party girl who just left a wild one on a yacht.On shore is Ralph Graves as Jerry, who's also left a wild party, this one at his Manhattan penthouse. He's gone for a …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: Are we missing the point when looking at the so-called “attainment gap” in academic achievement of some disabled pupils? A recent article in the Guardian (19 September 2024), reported an … The post Should we ‘mind the gap’ of disabled pupils’ attainment? Or is it really an indictment of how success is measured? appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Sharon Smith ⓒ Special Needs …

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the regional transportation planning body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), has launched a major effort to improve the coordination between the region’s 27 transit agencies. One element of this, just unveiled, is a regional standard for transit network maps. The goal is to have all of the region’s maps evolve toward the same style, so that it’s easier to explore the entire region’s network. …

Ramin Karimloo and Anoushka Lucas in A Face in the Crowd at the Young Vic Theatre, London. Picture: Ellie Kurttz A Face in the Crowd continues at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 9 November 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Politics as entertainment. Celebrity trumping competence and decency. The fine line between American patriotism and bigotry. It’s not hard to see why playwright Sarah Ruhl, …

It’s always a pleasure to reconnect with writers Bloom has featured in the past—especially when they reach a career milestone. Returning bloomer Meg Pokrass spoke with us about First Law of Holes (Dzanc Books), a selection of stories from the past fourteen years of her career, which is out now. Meg Pokrass Leah De Forest: First, congratulations on First Law of Holes. Meg Pokrass: Thank you so much. LDF: How …

Whilst the launch day of the 2024 Coffee and Crime Classic Crime Advent Calendar is not as highly anticipated as the release of Taylor Swift concert tickets or of a new iPhone, it has been encouraging to receive quite a few emails in September asking me if the advent calendars were going to be sold again this year. So, yes, I can confirm that not only will they be happening, …

Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed page, no other art form is so augmented (it is hoped) by being placed in sequence, a turn of the page informing the previous image as it reveals the next. …

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Last week and this, I’m very pleased to feature this interview between my good friend Thaddeus Zupančič and the esteemed architect Kate Macintosh. Kate Macintosh (b. 1937) is the architect of Dawson’s Heights housing estate in south London (1966-72), the Grade II-listed sheltered housing Macintosh Court (1969-72), also in south London, and Weston Adventure Playground in Southampton (with her life partner George Finch, RIBA Award 2005). These are her best-known …

On Monday morning, the Office of Space Commerce formally started the first phase of its long-awaited space traffic coordination system, called TraCSS. Jeff Foust reports on the milestone and its implications.

Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unheard from previously) “publisher” offering their great admiration and wanting their work as a book or chapter in their stunning new series of XXX. Buried inside the “offer” is a big fee. The approach sometimes starts out bragging about the coverage you’ll get publishing …

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