Straight Lines: Watling Street and Chester Chester is situated on an elbow of Watling Street, one of Britain’s major Roman roads.  One branch issues south towards London and the other runs east across the Pennines to York.  Chester’s import…

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A Child of the Jago, by Arthur Morrison The Jago is not only a geographical area but an existential state of desperation A Child of the Jago is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November…

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The Cracker Factory by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt Book Review – March 2026 Do you know what it’s like to feel wrong twenty-four hours a day? Do you know what it’s like to be disapproved of, not only for what you do and say and th…

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Abbot and Regis: A Tale of Two Townships A market town, a parliamentary borough, the head of a Union, and a parish, chiefly in the hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh; 26 miles (SE by E) from Denbigh, 18 (ESE) from Ruthin, and 187½ (N…

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The Sands of Dee Walking along the foreshore of the Dee estuary near Parkgate, enjoying the silence and the wide vista of land and sky, I was put in mind of the old poem by Charles Kingsley, The Sands of Dee.  King…

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The Ghost Signs of Montréal I attended the Montréal World Film Festival while travelling in Québec in 2016. I remember it was a slightly chaotic affair and it came as no surprise that the festival, founded in 1977, finally fo…

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Gender, Truth and Reality: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and W.B.…

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Baudelaire, Benjamin and the Birth of the Flâneur On voit un chiffonnier qui vient, hochant la tête, Butant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poète, Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets, Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets. Cha…

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Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project In many ways The Arcades Project is Benjamin’s lament for the passing of the flâneur. For Benjamin, the flâneur’s disappearance functions as a symbol for the ravages of capitalism upon metrop…

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From Streetwalker to Street Walker: The Rise of the Flâneuse In fact and in fantasy, London had become a contested terrain: new commercial spaces and journalist practices, expanding networks of female philanthropy, and a range of public spectacles . . . enab…

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Psychogeography: Taking Back the City The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automa…

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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dalloway’s Inner Flâneur In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot man…

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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism (Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and…

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The City, Modernism and the Flâneuse The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its ba…

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Towers of Flint That from this castle’s tatter’d battlements           Our fair appointments may be well perused.           Methinks King Richard and myself should meet           With no less…

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Review round up: Eliza Henry Jones & Peter James : BookerTalk Time for another batch of short reviews. The two novels I’m reviewing in this post contain elements such as folklore, witches, fantasy and ghosts for example, that seldom feature in my reading. If I d...

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Ebook covers of Chris Dalla Riva – “Uncharted Territory” and Rob Miller – “The Hours are Long but the Pay is Low”

Two great music reads – Chris Dalla Riva – “Uncharted Territory” and Rob Miller – “The Hours are Long but the Pay is Low” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t... #NonfictionNovember2025 #booksky 📚💙💡

Ian Marchant obituary Writer, performer and broadcaster with a talent for being interested in everything and a particular fascination with British counterculture

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Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC

And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Three questions for you:
1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television?
2. In what year was it broadcast?
3. From what language was the script translated into English?
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Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920) Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written by the Czech dramatist, Karel Čapek, in 1920 and was first performed on stage in 1921. It is known as Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti in the original Czech …

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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett — life with a price tag : BookerTalk Anna of the Five Towns was the first of Arnold Bennett’s novels to be set in the pottery towns of Staffordshire. Through six novels published between 1902 and 1918 he gives a realistic picture of life...

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245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney — Backlisted Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...

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Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year.  Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to…

psychogeographicreview.com/book-of-the-... As a mark of respect, here is my piece on Gillian Tindall's seminal work 'The Fields Beneath'. 2/2

Gillian Tindall obituary Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work

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Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975 | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

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Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space

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Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her proj…

. @bobbyseal.bsky.social gave Lizzy Laurance's "Rocketman" a nice review, here: psychogeographicreview.com/rocketman-by...