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Eve Arnold 21 Mar 2012 | 12:57 am
It’s a good time to write a brief article about the life and career of the American photojournalist Eve Arnold. She died only recently, on January 4th 2012, at the impressive age of 99 at a nursing ho...
J.M.W. Turner 23 Feb 2012 | 12:49 am
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23rd April, 1775, although we can probably give or take a couple of days on that date. Turner was clearly an outstanding talent from an early age;...
William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ 26 Jan 2012 | 11:55 pm
Unlike William Blake’s ‘London’ , ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge‘ was not a critique William Wordsworth of the social values of the times in which he lived. Wordsworth was certainly capable of t...
William Blake’s ‘London’ 10 Jan 2012 | 03:21 am
Born in London in 1757, William Blake is a poet who we now view as one of the most William Blake talented of his era but who, during his lifetime, went largely unrecognised. Although we regard him ...
David Bailey – Part Two 13 Dec 2011 | 11:50 pm
David Bailey’s progress through the ranks of London’s talented photographers was as rapid as it’s possible to be. While working for the John French Studio, one of London’s major advertising photograp...
David Bailey – Part One 10 Dec 2011 | 04:48 am
In the world of photography, and especially in the confines of British photography there David Bailey can surely be no more famous name than that of David Bailey. Best known now for his participati...
Hidden Images of London 24 Nov 2011 | 01:35 am
This article is prompted by a ongoing investigation by the BBC into some 200,000 paintings that belong to the general public as taxpayers. These 200,000 are the culmination of year’s of donations and...
André Derain – French Fauvist 16 Nov 2011 | 01:18 am
Ok, so André Derain was not a Londoner but the time he spent in London was an Derain, painted by Maurice de Vlaminck, 1906 incredibly prolific one. In 1906, Derain spent enough time in London to pa...
London Quotes – Miscellaneous 12 Nov 2011 | 12:00 am
Samuel Johnson and Oscar Wilde have provided us with a wealth of witty and telling comments regarding life in London in the eras in which they resided. Of course there are many other notable characte...
History of the East End – Part Six 25 Oct 2011 | 11:55 pm
Today the East End of London has in some ways changed beyond recognition from what we have been writing about in previous articles; in other ways it has changed very little and many commentators regar...
