Showing posts with label Ian Nairn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ian Nairn. Show all posts
Saturday, July 05, 2025

The Victorian age and the 1950s both took place in colour

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Embed from Getty Images One of the best things about subscribing to the London Review of Books is that it grants you access to the magazine...
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Monday, August 28, 2023

The Joy of Six 1157

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"The never-not-mentioned 'slick campaigning machine' of the SNP was true in about 2006-11, but after the landslide 2011 electio...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Ian Nairn in Pimlico, 1970

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The great architectural critic celebrates the village of Pimlico and its two post-war estates at Churchill Gardens and Lillington Street.
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Six of the Best 832

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"More than any other English-language narrative filmmaker, Roeg apprehended Tarkovsky's notion of "sculpting in time" wit...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

This is Their Life by Jonathan Meades (1979)

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Published in 1979 complete with a foreword by Mike Yarwood, this is a collection of brief pen portraits of television stars of the day. ...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

Six of the Best 604

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Alistair Carmichael writes on the Commons debate on the Investigatory Powers Bill: "The Bill is rotten to its core and I wish we cou...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Ian Nairn visits Bolton and Preston

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This film was made in 1975 for the BBC series Nairn's Journeys. He was so right about the dismal shopping arcades of that decade.
Friday, January 16, 2015

Jonathan Meades on how writers invent places not describe them

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Jonathan Meades reviews Nairn's London for the Literary Review and in the course of doing so says something profound about topograph...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Ian Nairn in Huddersfield and Halifax

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The other day we saw Nairn visit Barnsley . Here is is in two more Yorkshire towns. Nairn's "football towns" theme here ob...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Ian Nairn visits Barnsley

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Thursday, May 01, 2014

Six of the Best 435

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"The United Kingdom has tumbled down global press freedom rankings in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry and the government’s reaction t...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Ian Jack on Ian Nairn

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There are still five days left on the BBC iPlayer to watch this week's moving documentary on Ian Nairn . Ian Jack , who appears in the...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Six of the Best 422

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"It seems very much to be the old Strathclyde’s way or no way at all. That’s a huge mistake. Policing needs in Glasgow are totally di...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Six of the Best 407

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"You could say capitalism is a means to an end, the end being lifting humanity out of poverty in order to enable it to lead the good ...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Northampton Past and Present 1

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I have come across a series of short videos (cut from one longer film) about the history and buildings of Northampton. They were shot in 1...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham

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It takes courage to open a new bookshop today: there is only a Waterstones left in Leicester (though we still have a Waterstones and an i...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Ian Nairn in Northampton

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The site of this lost arcade in Northampton is occupied by the Grosvenor Centre, which is the shopping centre you find yourself in (if you...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Jonathan Meades talks about Museum Without Walls

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When writing about Ian Nairn the other day I mentioned Jonathan Meades' recent book Museum Without Walls . Here he is on Loose Ends...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

The Ian Nairn revival

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Ever since I posted a video of Ian Nairn - a figure I had heard of but did not know a great deal about - I have been coming across refere...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Ian Nairn: From Leeds into Scotland

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Jonathan Glancey profiled the late Tom Nairn in 2010: Writers and journalists, including JG Ballard, Will Self, Jonathan Meades, Patric...