In January Dulwich Picture Gallery will present The Jubilee Series, its seventh annual lecture series, honouring 60 years of HM The Queen’s reign. Launched on 3 January by Professor Lord Peter Hennessy with his title [...]
Articles tagged history
Don McCullin- “Shaped by War”
The Imperial War Museum is currently hosting “Shaped by War,” a truly striking display of the works of Don McCullin, one of the most influential British photographers of our generation. “Shaped by War” is the [...]
Lambeth Pottery
Anyone who lives in Dulwich and likes a bit of gardening will know that six inches below the ground lies thick and heavy London clay. I was doing some digging in my garden the other [...]
Marriage Portraits - A Version of Online Dating
In the days before photography, marriage portraits were often used as part of the marriage arrangement process between the rich and wealthy. However these types of portraits still exist in our present day society through [...]
Acting up: A view from the stage
Black Londoners In Wartime, Many Stories To Tell…
Angela Corrias learns about Black London in WW2. We’ve all studied the Second World War from many angles, but the mainstream textbooks are more likely to cover political and social mega-events, forgetting smaller, but by [...]
