New blog post by Ian Stone: 'With Due Acknowledgement: From Bermondsey’s Tanneries to The London Journal', reflecting on his research on the Leathersellers’ College in Bermondsey and its archival presence, and its place in his wider research and teaching: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#St....
It's time for another 🧵 on one of the articles that made up our 50th anniversary special, 'London's Past Today'. This time, it is the turn of 'ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques', by Nur Sobers-Khan & Shahed Saleem.
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
‘Three British Mosques’ was co-curated by Shahed Saleem, Christopher Turner, and Ella Kilgallon and exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale 202...
My MP. I actually feel slightly kinder to him now...
Agreed.
I’m not entirely sure how they would have done it successfully, but it would have been cool for the last season to start with Janeway being on Earth and the season doing flashbacks to the lead up. (I also really fucking hate time travel, which is affecting me here 🤣)
New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...
This observation from Stefan Collini in the LRB is striking. I don’t think it’s true anymore: there’s a level of glee that seems to underpin the cuts to staff & courses. Rather than being seen for the failure of leadership it obviously is, VCs can crow about their ability to make tough decisions.
