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5 days ago · Photo: Getty Images To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies and the 10th of CapX, we’ve been republishing CPS pamphlets from our archive. This week, it’s Gertrude Himmelfarb’s 1987 paper ‘Victorian Values and Twentieth-Century Condescension’.
3 days ago · Price: £14.99. Dr Nigel Aston, review of The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity, (review no. 415) For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and ...
5 days ago · The wartime photos include a shot of the royal couple inspecting bomb damage at Buckingham Palace in London in 1940 and a 1943 family snap captured at Royal Lodge in Windsor, showing a young ...
4 days ago · The Groundbreaking Story Of The First Photograph In History And The Innovative Man Behind It. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photo ever, "View from the Window at Le Gras," from his estate in France in 1826 or 1827 using a technique he'd invented called heliography and a camera obscura. Today, most of us walk around with an incredibly ...
1 day ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
5 days ago · A photo of the photographic print by Man Ray titled Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein (1922) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022. A black and white gelatin silver print of the named literary figures in Stein's salon in 1922. Below the image are Man Ray's signature and the year written in pencil. Public domain image. 5. Pioneer of Literary ...
5 days ago · The cafe’s name is also a reference: New Yorker Gertrude Ederle is most well-known for being the first woman to swim the English channel, but she also was a performer in the 1939 Aquacade show.
