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Hetan ShahWhen the copyright of Peter Pan ran out, Great Ormond Street hospital was given a perpetual right to future royalties. What if we started doing this for other works? Artists could agree to opt into this. It could be a great income stream for the arts. Worth a think www.thetimes.com/article/28cf...
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mortLe philosophe, un des leaders du mouvement situationniste, prônait une liberté d’expression radicale. Son « Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations » avait contribué à l’éclosion du mouvement de Mai 1968. Il s’est éteint mardi 28 juillet à 92 ans.www.lemonde.frNew to me: España Esclavista: "The main goal of this website ... is to showcase and highlight the many material traces of Spain's slave-holding past that still exist in our towns and cities today." espanaesclavista.es (en español, obviamente) #History #EnslavedHistory
Inicio - España esclavistaEspaña Esclavista es una herramienta para divulgar los legados materiales del pasado esclavista español y ofrecer recursos e información sobre dicha realidad.espanaesclavista.esRevealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #QueerHistory
Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collectivePioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorshipwww.theguardian.comMore #PublicDomain UK Govt vols, released from snippet view: Annual Report on Hong Kong: 1959: books.google.co.uk/books?id=iBv... 1961: books.google.co.uk/books?id=0iD... 1965: books.google.co.uk/books?id=QSL... 1967: books.google.co.uk/books?id=LCP... 1975: books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ir...
Annual Report on Hong Kongbooks.google.co.ukRevealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #QueerHistory
Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collectivePioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorshipwww.theguardian.comOn Burnham's minister for AI: Blog post version: pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/21/n... Personally, I'm undecided whether this decision is pathetically stupid, or dangerously stupid.
New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the CabinetAndy Burnham, Britain’s new Prime Minister, is steering a careful course between being the new face of hope for a tired nation, and frantically assuring his backers that nothing will change. But Bu…pivot-to-ai.comDavid GerardNew UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv9wcfCogw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]
"Douglass’s 19-month tour of Britain and Ireland began in Liverpool in 1845 and, for much of the time, Manchester was his base." #slavery #abolition #history www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick DouglassAnnual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britainwww.theguardian.comFor Haydon's painting of the Mock Election see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moc... And also the companion picture, Chairing the Member: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairin... #CarceralHistory #History
The Mock Election - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgpasttensehistories#OnThisDay in penal history, 1827: Kings Bench Prisoners hold mock election, satirising the farcical election process of the time. wp.me/p74yfw-aU
#OnThisDay in penal history, 1827: Kings Bench Prisoners hold mock election, satirising the farcical election process of the time. wp.me/p74yfw-aU
Today in penal history: Kings Bench Prisoners hold mock election, 1827.“Nothing during the last year excited more curiosity than the Mock Election, which took place in the King’s Bench Prison; as much from the circumstances attending its conclusion, as from the …wp.me
Interesting review that touches upon the rejection of modernism by many British left-wing artists. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Laugh out loud moment: "Picasso was held in disdain: some AIA artists .... maintained that Guernica was a lesser work of political art than their own efforts."
Owen Hatherley · Raised on Spam: British Communist ArtThe Artists International Association created the sort of art which has had critical manure heaped on it since the 1940s...www.lrb.co.ukLondon Review of Books‘The AIA created the sort of art which has had critical manure heaped on it since the 1940s: realist, figurative, agitational, achingly sincere.’ Owen Hatherley on British anti-fascist art in the 1930s. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Votes and Proceedings released from snippet view into the #PublicDomain by Google Books: 1921: books.google.co.uk/books?id=GCB... 1924: books.google.co.uk/books?id=CyF... 1926: books.google.co.uk/books?id=UyF... 1929: books.google.co.uk/books?id=HyJ... 1933: books.google.co.uk/books?id=RCN...
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