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Monthly Archives: June 2020

Revive 45: bonus trax 2

Culture

Revive 45: bonus trax 2

Posted on 26 June 2020 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

Mike Batt, Paper Lace, Mr Big, the Surprise Sisters & many more. ALWYN TURNER rounds up some failed 45s from 1975. Continue reading →

‘Looking for vibrations’

Culture

‘Looking for vibrations’

Posted on 20 June 2020 by undergroundculture12 • Leave a comment

BEN FINLAY on Glastonbury, visions of Albion and the underground press. Continue reading →

Camden and the North

Culture

Camden and the North

Posted on 17 June 2020 by Lion & Unicorn • Leave a comment

David Storey’s 1960 novel, Flight Into Camden, revisited by SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading →

Sporting comebacks II

History / Sport

Sporting comebacks II

Posted on 14 June 2020 by Paul Saffer • Leave a comment

PAUL SAFFER on how sport came back with renewed purpose after its suspension in WW2. Continue reading →

Sporting comebacks I

History / Sport

Sporting comebacks I

Posted on 13 June 2020 by Paul Saffer • Leave a comment

As sport returns from its spell on the bench, PAUL SAFFER looks at how it came back after World War I. Continue reading →

Rear-view review: The Day the Queen Flew to Scotland for the Grouse Shooting

Culture

Rear-view review: The Day the Queen Flew to Scotland for the Grouse Shooting

Posted on 5 June 2020 by Dan Atkinson • Leave a comment

It’s 1968 and England is in a state of civil war. DAN ATKINSON investigates. Continue reading →

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A good night for Corbyn
Boris Johnson: An obituary
Time takes a cigarette
Final Cut: Children of Men (2006)
Remembering Chirgwin
'Disreputable men'
Hold your hands out, naughty boys
Final Cut: Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999)
Imperial fiction: The Secret Adversary
First lines: 1970s - part 1

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The Twitter

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Final Cut: Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999)
Time takes a cigarette
Calling all cliches: Lurching to the Right
Final Cut: Now Barabbas Was a Robber (1949)
The censoring of Sexton Blake
Final Cut: Children of Men (2006)
Privatising the NHS
Diane Abbott: a tribute in tweets
Final Cut: The Tunnel (1935)
Calling all (historical) cliches: Winters of Discontent

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