Sports historian James Hamilton marvels at the pioneering works of film, sound and photography which, once lost, are now freely available again on the internet, and he ponders their profound impact on our sense of history... One of the joys of sports history is that you get to involve yourself in the work of media pioneers: ... Read More...
Society
Mr Slang explains why finds one particular word to be the most offensive in the English language... Occasionally, when I toss some new offering onto the great heap of the unsold that is publishing (for if every birth is a death postponed, so are mint and shiny first editions merely the ... Read More...
Rita Byrne Tull continues her series of Dabbler letters from America with a look at the thorny issue of Church and State... I could not have chosen a more eventful time for my first visit to America than the summer of 1969. Americans were still reeling from the assassination of Robert ... Read More...
Rita Byrne Tull continues her series of Dabbler letters from America... When I flew across the Atlantic so many years ago I didn’t realize that I was also traveling on a high-speed escalator up the social classes. The notion that America is a classless society is, of course, a myth. Just ... Read More...
Motown continues to exert its influence on popular music, as today’s acts use those lovely swooping vocal harmonies and up-and-down melodies over contemporary beats. The best modern songs - Outkast’s Hey Ya, Amy Winehouse’s Rehab, Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls and, above all, Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy – are as catchy as ... Read More...
