Science, art and society in the early 20th century are related by Oto Bihalji-Merin (1938).
The picture is Die Windsbraut by Oskar Kokoschka painted 1913-
1914
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Sunday 19 April 2015
Sunday 12 April 2015
Shelf Appeal (1933) was a monthly publication "devoted to the planning, designing, manufacturing and display of the package." It was associated with Package Omnibus "The first encyclopaedia of packaging" (1936)
We Women All Agree |
Students of marketing, sociology, gender, media, art and design, psychology, and shopaholics, will be fighting one another to get in.
Friday 10 April 2015
Thursday 9 April 2015
In two world wars, Britain and Germany struggled to starve each other's civilian populations. In Wales and England women formed Women's Institutes to produce food and goods and linked up with the land army of women replacing men in the fields. Jam making was part of the war effort.
In 1915 home and country meant food for the nation.
In 1919 it meant home and countryside.
In 2002 it meant saving the world.
In 1915 home and country meant food for the nation.
In 1919 it meant home and countryside.
In 2002 it meant saving the world.
Monday 6 April 2015
As a madwoman in search of God Margery Kempe was a traveller who explored medieval Europe and the middle east.
An urban business wife and mother in a feudal agricultural society, her perception that she was married to God led to her being called both a harlot and a lollard. She was restrained in her own home, and sometimes in prison, at a time when institutional confinement of insane people was rare. Today she is an Anglican saint.
An urban business wife and mother in a feudal agricultural society, her perception that she was married to God led to her being called both a harlot and a lollard. She was restrained in her own home, and sometimes in prison, at a time when institutional confinement of insane people was rare. Today she is an Anglican saint.
Friday 3 April 2015
With clues from other researchers (thank you) I have found the primary sources for that 1620 "Petition of the Poor Distracted Folk of Bedlam"
This is two centuries after Margery Kempe and eighty years after Thomas Moore's frenzied heretic and Juan Ciudad Duarte
This is two centuries after Margery Kempe and eighty years after Thomas Moore's frenzied heretic and Juan Ciudad Duarte
Tuesday 31 March 2015
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