Showing posts with label 1900s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1900s. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

'Low Class foreigners' and men dancing with men: Police raid Italian club in Soho (1900)

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A police raid on an Italian-run club in Soho in 1900 led to fighting with police outside and the proprietors being jailed. The Co-operative ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Dancing London (1902): 'riotous hilarity' and 'rhythmic revolution'

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'Living London: its work and its play, its humour and its pathos, its sights and its scenes,' edited by George Robert Sims , is a re...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

'Death from Excessive Dancing' - Bermondsey 1903

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From: South London Press, 3 January 1903: ' The Fatal Thirteen -Death from excessive dancing Dr Waldo held an inquest at the Southwa...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Bruce Turner - Pavlova

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Bruce Turner's painting 'Pavlova' is a remarkable early modernist image of a dancer in motion painted in around 1912. I saw it y...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Irish dancing in London, 1902

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An interesting early 20th century photograph of people out dancing in London (click on photo to enlarge). It comes from Living London by GR...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

More vinyl archaeology

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I've posted before on Excavated Shellac, a site dedicated to '78 rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the w...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Colette: sex and dance in Fin de Siecle Paris

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The French novelist Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette (1873 -1954), known as Colette, lived life to the full in Fin de Siecle Paris, a period des...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Radio anniversary

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On this day just over 100 years ago - 24 December 1906 - the first audio radio broadcast of music took place in an experiment by Reginald Fe...