Albion Vol. 18, Issue 2: Spring 2022
Table of Contents
Editorial
There Are No Coincidences: Interview with Rodney Slater of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Part 1)
Art
Laura Knight: A Panoramic View, ed. Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira
Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
TV & Cinema
Get Back by Peter Jackson
Books
Concrete Island: J. G. Ballard's Stone Dream
The Matter of England
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
Francis Barber by Michael Bundock
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
Music
Classical Reviews (Purcell and Christmas carols)
Folk & Rock: Ian A. Anderson, The Strawbs, Caravan, etc.
Albion Vol. 18, Issue 1: Autumn 2021
Table of Contents
Editorial
Noël Coward: No Rest for Lovers
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum)
Art
The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics by Sam Smiles
Gainsborough in London by Susan Sloman
Design
Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion by Shaun Cole and Miles Lambert
Cinema
Great Noises That Fill the Air
Chariots of Fire at Forty: An Appreciation
Books
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
Music
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Arnold, Vaughan Williams, etc.)
Rock & Pop: The Syn, Barclay James Harvest, and the Third Ear Band
Albion Vol. 17, Issue 2: Spring 2021
Table of Contents
Editorial
Richard Savage: The Myth of the Outsider Poet
Next Thing to Life: Nature-Printing of Ferns and Sea-Weeds
Art
Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness by Matthew Craske
London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Lisa Tickner
Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660 by Kevin Sharpe
Cinema
The Good Die Young (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
The Dig (dir. Simon Stone)
Books
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience by Peter Johnston (guest article by Martin Bell)
King Twist: A Portrait of Frank Randle by Jeff Nuttall
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
Music
Classical Reviews (Somervell, Howells, Holst, Blackford, Venables, etc)
Folk & Rock: Dyble Longdon, Between a Breath and a Breath
Albion Vol. 17, Issue 1: Summer 2020
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Ambiguous Beginnings of Canal-Boat Literature
Art
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters at the National Gallery
British Surrealism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Cinema
Sunday Bloody Sunday (dir. John Schlesinger)
Books
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
The Cato Street Conspiracy: Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland, ed. Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Exhibition Catalogue), ed. Claire Breay and Joanna Story
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays, by Peter Lake
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter
Music
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Harriet Cohen, etc)
Rock & Pop Reviews (Emily Breeze and Laura Kidd)
Albion Vol. 16, Issue 2: Winter 2020
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Coffee House in Eighteenth-Century London: A Sociable Engine of Change
Art
Antony Gormley at the Royal Academy of Arts
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery
Cinema
It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo)
Books
Fiction
The Young Visiters, and Other Works by Daisy Ashford and Her Sister
Non-Fiction
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
Westminster Abbey: A Church in History, ed. David Cannadine
Music
Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
Winifred Atwell: An Appreciation
Classical Reviews (Holst, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor, etc)
Rock & Pop Reviews (Pet Shop Boys and Gozer Goodspeed)
Albion Vol. 16, Issue 1: Summer 2019
Fifteenth Anniversary Special Edition, Nr. 2
Table of Contents
Editorial
Remembering the Peterloo Massacre
Art
Doreen Fletcher: Paintings (Review and Artist Interview)
The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture by Roy Strong
The Alfred Wallis Factor: Conflict in Post-War St. Ives Art by David Wilkinson
Cinema
Room at the Top (dir. Jack Clayton)
The Best of the British Transport Films
Sid Field and London Town
Television/Theatre
Pinter at the BBC
Books
Recent Non-Fiction
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas (Review and Author Interview)
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers edited by Kit de Waal
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment, by Lee Jackson
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
Twentieth-Century English Female Writers: Special Dossier
E M Delafield and Punch
Three Little-Fiddle-on-the-Green Sketches by E M Delafield ("When Silence Reigned," "What This War is Doing," and "Scorched-Earth Policy")
Stella Gibbons: An Appreciation
Beautiful Plot Devices: The Spoilt Young Women of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romances
Richmal Crompton's Just William Stories Revisited
Music
Classical Reviews (Elgar, Howells, Purcell, etc)
Albion Vol. 15, Issue 2: Winter 2019
Fifteenth Anniversary Special Edition, Nr. 1
Table of Contents
Editorial
Armistice 1918-A Retrospective
Visions of England in Literature of the First World War
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 by Guy Cuthbertson
The Wipers Times: An Appreciation
Art
Edward Burne-Jones (Tate Britain Exhibition Review)
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake (Catalogue Review)
Cinema
Arcadia (dir. Paul Wright)
The Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box
Books
The English on the Continent: Special Dossier
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Recent Non-Fiction
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by Nicholas J. Higham
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson
Music
Rock Reviews (Hudson-Ford, Greenslade, Renaissance and Gryphon)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Rawsthorne, Bantock, etc)
Albion Vol. 15, Issue 1: Summer 2018
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Long Auf Wiedersehen: Review of The British in Westphalia (Exhibition at the Paderborn City Museum, Germany)
Photography
Merrie Albion by Simon Roberts (Review and Interview)
Art
Bomberg by Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson
Charles I: King and Collector (Exhibition Review)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections, ed. Robin Simon and MaryAnne Stevens
Material Culture
No Time Like the Past: A Visit to Beamish Open Air Museum
Cinema
Derek Jarman's Jubilee
Fiction
Writing Without Limits: Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series
Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
E. M. Delafield's The Spirit of the Age
Non-Fiction
A Day at Home in Early Modern England by Catherine Richardson and Tara Hamling
Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World by Peter McNeil
Revolution: A History of England, Vol. IV by Peter Ackroyd
Music
Folk and Rock: Mark E Smith: Obituary and Career Retrospective
An Abandoned Orchid House by Talitha Rise
Classical Reviews (Handel, Walton, Delius, etc)
Albion Vol. 14, Issue 2: Winter 2018
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, ed. Eleanor Hughes
Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War (Exhibition and Catalogue Review)
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain, by Kate Retford
Material Culture
The Unstoppable Chintz
English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 by Christopher Gilbert
Non-Fiction Books
The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead
How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider by Stewart Lee
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Canny Fettle, Rick Wakeman, Bodast, etc)
Classical Reviews (Walton, John Sheppard, Cipriani Potter, etc)
Albion Vol. 14, Issue 1: Summer 2017
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Mark Hallett's Reynolds: Portraiture in Action
Queer British Art 1861-1967 : Exhibition at Tate Britain
Books
E. R. Braithwaite: An Appreciation
Michael Alexander's Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
A Garden in the Rubble: An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
Peter Marshall's Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Cinema
Chris Bernard's Letter to Brezhnev
Stuart Staples' Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
Music
Interview with Em Marshall-Luck, Founder of the English Music Festival
Folk and Rock Reviews (Caroleanne Pegg, Unicorn, Nirvana, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Bax, Elgar, etc)
Albion Vol. 13, Issue 2: Winter 2017
Table of Contents
Editorial
A Visit to Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street: Interview with Curator David Milne
Art
Tom Phillips' A Humument (Final Edition)
Paul Nash: Exhibition at Tate Britain
Eric Shanes' The Young Mr Turner
Beardsley: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Books
School Stories and Modern Children's Fantasy: Two Points on a Continuum
Frances Wilson's Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Sasha Handley's Sleep in Early Modern England
A Return to Orwell's Common Toad
Joseph Levine's The Secret History of the Blitz
Oliver Crocker's All Memories Large and Small: Review and Author Interview
Television
Alan Dossor's Johnny Jarvis
Cinema
Peter Hall's Akenfield
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Steve Hackett, 9:30 Fly, Regime, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Holbrooke, etc)
Diversions
Albion Vol. 13, Issue 1: Summer 2016
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Simon Grant, Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi's Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings
Hogarth's Legacy (Ed. Cynthia Roman)
David Solkin's Art in Britain 1660-1815
Books
Michel Faber's Undying
Anne Curry's Henry V: Playboy Prince to Warrior King
Cinema
An Epistolary Anti-Heroine: Jane Austen's Lady Susan Adapted to the Screen
Andrew Haigh's 45 Years
Alan Clarke's Penda's Fen
Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies 1916-1917
Edmond T. Greville's Beat Girl
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (The Move, Karda Estra, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Bantock, Ireland, etc)
Albion Vol. 12, Issue 2: Winter 2016
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Great War and Modern Memory Revisited
Art
Dismaland at Weston-super-Mare
Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills' David Jones: Vision and Memory
Theatre
Fractured Visions: A New French-Canadian Production of 1984
Books
Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
Robert Tombs' The English and Their History
Cinema
Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Procol Harum, Emmett Elvin, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bantock, Fribbens, Tavener, etc)
Albion Vol. 12, Issue 1: Summer 2015
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Antony Gormley's ROOM (Installation and Catalogue Review)
William Blake: Apprentice and Master (Exhibition Review)
Ravilious (Exhibition Review)
Andrea Korda's Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London
Theatre
Tristan Bernays' Teddy
Books
Conventions of Detective Fiction and the Reader's Contract in Early Dorothy Sayers Novels
Nick Papadimitriou's Scarp
Return to Green Knowe
Douglas Dunn's Terry Street
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Joan Armatrading, Sky, Karda Estra, etc)
Classical Reviews (Elgar, Walton, Billy Mayerl, etc)
Albion Vol. 11, Issue 2: Autumn 2014
Table of Contents
Obituary: Dr. Frederick Donnelly
Arthur Hansbrow’s Little Book
Editorial
Art
British Folk Art at Tate Britain: Special Feature (Exhibition and Catalogue Review)
Books
Michael Kenny’s The Politics of English Nationhood
Violet Hunt’s The Wife of Rossetti
The Sensual Versus the Ideological: Political Agency in Laurie Lee’s As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Cinema
Iain Sinclair and 70x70: The Anti-Pantheon
Amma Assante’s Belle
Andrew Kötting’s In the Wake of a Deadad
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews
Jake Thackray and Songs
Matt Berry’s Musical Career
Classical Reviews
Diversions
Table of Contents
Editorial
There Are No Coincidences: Interview with Rodney Slater of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Part 1)
Art
Laura Knight: A Panoramic View, ed. Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira
Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
TV & Cinema
Get Back by Peter Jackson
Books
Concrete Island: J. G. Ballard's Stone Dream
The Matter of England
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
Francis Barber by Michael Bundock
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
Music
Classical Reviews (Purcell and Christmas carols)
Folk & Rock: Ian A. Anderson, The Strawbs, Caravan, etc.
Albion Vol. 18, Issue 1: Autumn 2021
Table of Contents
Editorial
Noël Coward: No Rest for Lovers
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum)
Art
The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics by Sam Smiles
Gainsborough in London by Susan Sloman
Design
Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion by Shaun Cole and Miles Lambert
Cinema
Great Noises That Fill the Air
Chariots of Fire at Forty: An Appreciation
Books
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
Music
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Arnold, Vaughan Williams, etc.)
Rock & Pop: The Syn, Barclay James Harvest, and the Third Ear Band
Albion Vol. 17, Issue 2: Spring 2021
Table of Contents
Editorial
Richard Savage: The Myth of the Outsider Poet
Next Thing to Life: Nature-Printing of Ferns and Sea-Weeds
Art
Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness by Matthew Craske
London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Lisa Tickner
Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660 by Kevin Sharpe
Cinema
The Good Die Young (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
The Dig (dir. Simon Stone)
Books
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience by Peter Johnston (guest article by Martin Bell)
King Twist: A Portrait of Frank Randle by Jeff Nuttall
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
Music
Classical Reviews (Somervell, Howells, Holst, Blackford, Venables, etc)
Folk & Rock: Dyble Longdon, Between a Breath and a Breath
Albion Vol. 17, Issue 1: Summer 2020
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Ambiguous Beginnings of Canal-Boat Literature
Art
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters at the National Gallery
British Surrealism at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Cinema
Sunday Bloody Sunday (dir. John Schlesinger)
Books
Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain by Hashi Mohamed
The Cato Street Conspiracy: Plotting, Counter-Intelligence and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland, ed. Jason McElligott and Martin Conboy
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Exhibition Catalogue), ed. Claire Breay and Joanna Story
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays, by Peter Lake
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter
Music
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Harriet Cohen, etc)
Rock & Pop Reviews (Emily Breeze and Laura Kidd)
Albion Vol. 16, Issue 2: Winter 2020
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Coffee House in Eighteenth-Century London: A Sociable Engine of Change
Art
Antony Gormley at the Royal Academy of Arts
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery
Cinema
It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo)
Books
Fiction
The Young Visiters, and Other Works by Daisy Ashford and Her Sister
Non-Fiction
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
Westminster Abbey: A Church in History, ed. David Cannadine
Music
Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
Winifred Atwell: An Appreciation
Classical Reviews (Holst, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor, etc)
Rock & Pop Reviews (Pet Shop Boys and Gozer Goodspeed)
Albion Vol. 16, Issue 1: Summer 2019
Fifteenth Anniversary Special Edition, Nr. 2
Table of Contents
Editorial
Remembering the Peterloo Massacre
Art
Doreen Fletcher: Paintings (Review and Artist Interview)
The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture by Roy Strong
The Alfred Wallis Factor: Conflict in Post-War St. Ives Art by David Wilkinson
Cinema
Room at the Top (dir. Jack Clayton)
The Best of the British Transport Films
Sid Field and London Town
Television/Theatre
Pinter at the BBC
Books
Recent Non-Fiction
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas (Review and Author Interview)
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers edited by Kit de Waal
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment, by Lee Jackson
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
Twentieth-Century English Female Writers: Special Dossier
E M Delafield and Punch
Three Little-Fiddle-on-the-Green Sketches by E M Delafield ("When Silence Reigned," "What This War is Doing," and "Scorched-Earth Policy")
Stella Gibbons: An Appreciation
Beautiful Plot Devices: The Spoilt Young Women of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romances
Richmal Crompton's Just William Stories Revisited
Music
Classical Reviews (Elgar, Howells, Purcell, etc)
Albion Vol. 15, Issue 2: Winter 2019
Fifteenth Anniversary Special Edition, Nr. 1
Table of Contents
Editorial
Armistice 1918-A Retrospective
Visions of England in Literature of the First World War
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 by Guy Cuthbertson
The Wipers Times: An Appreciation
Art
Edward Burne-Jones (Tate Britain Exhibition Review)
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake (Catalogue Review)
Cinema
Arcadia (dir. Paul Wright)
The Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box
Books
The English on the Continent: Special Dossier
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Recent Non-Fiction
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by Nicholas J. Higham
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson
Music
Rock Reviews (Hudson-Ford, Greenslade, Renaissance and Gryphon)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Rawsthorne, Bantock, etc)
Albion Vol. 15, Issue 1: Summer 2018
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Long Auf Wiedersehen: Review of The British in Westphalia (Exhibition at the Paderborn City Museum, Germany)
Photography
Merrie Albion by Simon Roberts (Review and Interview)
Art
Bomberg by Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson
Charles I: King and Collector (Exhibition Review)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections, ed. Robin Simon and MaryAnne Stevens
Material Culture
No Time Like the Past: A Visit to Beamish Open Air Museum
Cinema
Derek Jarman's Jubilee
Fiction
Writing Without Limits: Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series
Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
E. M. Delafield's The Spirit of the Age
Non-Fiction
A Day at Home in Early Modern England by Catherine Richardson and Tara Hamling
Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World by Peter McNeil
Revolution: A History of England, Vol. IV by Peter Ackroyd
Music
Folk and Rock: Mark E Smith: Obituary and Career Retrospective
An Abandoned Orchid House by Talitha Rise
Classical Reviews (Handel, Walton, Delius, etc)
Albion Vol. 14, Issue 2: Winter 2018
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, ed. Eleanor Hughes
Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War (Exhibition and Catalogue Review)
Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain, by Kate Retford
Material Culture
The Unstoppable Chintz
English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900 by Christopher Gilbert
Non-Fiction Books
The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead
How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider by Stewart Lee
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Canny Fettle, Rick Wakeman, Bodast, etc)
Classical Reviews (Walton, John Sheppard, Cipriani Potter, etc)
Albion Vol. 14, Issue 1: Summer 2017
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Mark Hallett's Reynolds: Portraiture in Action
Queer British Art 1861-1967 : Exhibition at Tate Britain
Books
E. R. Braithwaite: An Appreciation
Michael Alexander's Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
A Garden in the Rubble: An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
Peter Marshall's Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Cinema
Chris Bernard's Letter to Brezhnev
Stuart Staples' Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
Music
Interview with Em Marshall-Luck, Founder of the English Music Festival
Folk and Rock Reviews (Caroleanne Pegg, Unicorn, Nirvana, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Bax, Elgar, etc)
Albion Vol. 13, Issue 2: Winter 2017
Table of Contents
Editorial
A Visit to Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street: Interview with Curator David Milne
Art
Tom Phillips' A Humument (Final Edition)
Paul Nash: Exhibition at Tate Britain
Eric Shanes' The Young Mr Turner
Beardsley: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Books
School Stories and Modern Children's Fantasy: Two Points on a Continuum
Frances Wilson's Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Sasha Handley's Sleep in Early Modern England
A Return to Orwell's Common Toad
Joseph Levine's The Secret History of the Blitz
Oliver Crocker's All Memories Large and Small: Review and Author Interview
Television
Alan Dossor's Johnny Jarvis
Cinema
Peter Hall's Akenfield
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Steve Hackett, 9:30 Fly, Regime, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Holbrooke, etc)
Diversions
Albion Vol. 13, Issue 1: Summer 2016
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Simon Grant, Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi's Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings
Hogarth's Legacy (Ed. Cynthia Roman)
David Solkin's Art in Britain 1660-1815
Books
Michel Faber's Undying
Anne Curry's Henry V: Playboy Prince to Warrior King
Cinema
An Epistolary Anti-Heroine: Jane Austen's Lady Susan Adapted to the Screen
Andrew Haigh's 45 Years
Alan Clarke's Penda's Fen
Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies 1916-1917
Edmond T. Greville's Beat Girl
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (The Move, Karda Estra, etc)
Classical Reviews (Vaughan Williams, Bantock, Ireland, etc)
Albion Vol. 12, Issue 2: Winter 2016
Table of Contents
Editorial
The Great War and Modern Memory Revisited
Art
Dismaland at Weston-super-Mare
Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills' David Jones: Vision and Memory
Theatre
Fractured Visions: A New French-Canadian Production of 1984
Books
Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
Robert Tombs' The English and Their History
Cinema
Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Procol Harum, Emmett Elvin, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bantock, Fribbens, Tavener, etc)
Albion Vol. 12, Issue 1: Summer 2015
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art
Antony Gormley's ROOM (Installation and Catalogue Review)
William Blake: Apprentice and Master (Exhibition Review)
Ravilious (Exhibition Review)
Andrea Korda's Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London
Theatre
Tristan Bernays' Teddy
Books
Conventions of Detective Fiction and the Reader's Contract in Early Dorothy Sayers Novels
Nick Papadimitriou's Scarp
Return to Green Knowe
Douglas Dunn's Terry Street
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Joan Armatrading, Sky, Karda Estra, etc)
Classical Reviews (Elgar, Walton, Billy Mayerl, etc)
Albion Vol. 11, Issue 2: Autumn 2014
Table of Contents
Obituary: Dr. Frederick Donnelly
Arthur Hansbrow’s Little Book
Editorial
Art
British Folk Art at Tate Britain: Special Feature (Exhibition and Catalogue Review)
Books
Michael Kenny’s The Politics of English Nationhood
Violet Hunt’s The Wife of Rossetti
The Sensual Versus the Ideological: Political Agency in Laurie Lee’s As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
Cinema
Iain Sinclair and 70x70: The Anti-Pantheon
Amma Assante’s Belle
Andrew Kötting’s In the Wake of a Deadad
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews
Jake Thackray and Songs
Matt Berry’s Musical Career
Classical Reviews
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 11, Issue 1: Spring 2014
10th Anniversary Edition
Table of Contents
The Marvellous in the Ordinary: A Conversation with Iain Sinclair
Approaches to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Comparison
Is There an English National Costume? Six Possible Contenders
Editorial
Art
Alan Powers' Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer
Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913-1963, Exhibition and Catalogue Review
Mary Rose Beaumont, Jane England and John Mack's 'From There to Here': The Art of Michael Buhler
Andrew Causey's Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself
Books
Malcolm Chase's 1820: Disorder and Stability in the United Kingdom
H V Morton's What I Saw in the Slums
Alan Johnson's This Boy
We Did Not Fight: 1914-18 Experiences of War Resisters, ed. Julian Bell
Huntly Gordon's The Unreturning Army
Cinema
The Big Melt
Epic of Everest
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Frank Turner, Oliver Wakeman, Galahad, etc)
Classical Reviews (Handel, Moeran, Elgar, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 10, Issue 2: Autumn 2013
Table of Contents
The Influence of Legal Theory and Changing Ideas of Property on the Levellers' Franchise Campaign
Editorial
Art
A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War: Exhibition Review
Andrew Causey's Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects and Philip Vann and Gerald Hastings' Keith Vaughan
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life: Exhibition and Catalogue Review
Books
Non-Fiction: Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Fiction: David Peace's Red or Dead
Barry Hines' The Gamekeeper
Television
Jack Rosenthal: An Appreciation
Cinema
Way of the Morris
A London Trilogy: The Films of St Etienne 2003-2007
Music
Interview with Malcolm Taylor OBE about the Full English Digital Archive
Folk and Rock Reviews and Interviews (Ange Hardy, Guy Manning, Dave Radford, Simon Godfrey, Andy Tillison)
Classical Reviews (Bax, Howells, Britten, etc)
Diversions
Table of Contents
The Influence of Legal Theory and Changing Ideas of Property on the Levellers' Franchise Campaign
Editorial
Art
A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War: Exhibition Review
Andrew Causey's Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects and Philip Vann and Gerald Hastings' Keith Vaughan
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life: Exhibition and Catalogue Review
Books
Non-Fiction: Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Fiction: David Peace's Red or Dead
Barry Hines' The Gamekeeper
Television
Jack Rosenthal: An Appreciation
Cinema
Way of the Morris
A London Trilogy: The Films of St Etienne 2003-2007
Music
Interview with Malcolm Taylor OBE about the Full English Digital Archive
Folk and Rock Reviews and Interviews (Ange Hardy, Guy Manning, Dave Radford, Simon Godfrey, Andy Tillison)
Classical Reviews (Bax, Howells, Britten, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 10, Issue 1 : Spring 2013
Table of Contents
A Land of Lost Content: Visions of Enclosure in English Literature
Shakespeare Reinvented: Stratford and the Bard
Editorial
Art
Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings
The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Books
Reto Suter's Political Utopias at the Time of the French Revolution Debate in England, 1789-1796
The Letters of John Lennon, edited by Hunter Davies
Simon Jenkins' A Short History of England
Dominic Sandbrook's Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain 1974-1979
Ruth Wheeler's Truxxe Trilogy: Review and Author Interview
Television
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Cinema
Roundabout 1963: A Year in Colour
Julien Temple's London: The Modern Babylon
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Richard Thompson, Spriguns, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bridge, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, etc)
Interviews: Chris Wade of Dodson and Fogg, The Fierce and the Dead, Thieves' Kitchen, and Wilson McQueen of Ebony Tower
Diversions
Table of Contents
A Land of Lost Content: Visions of Enclosure in English Literature
Shakespeare Reinvented: Stratford and the Bard
Editorial
Art
Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings
The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Books
Reto Suter's Political Utopias at the Time of the French Revolution Debate in England, 1789-1796
The Letters of John Lennon, edited by Hunter Davies
Simon Jenkins' A Short History of England
Dominic Sandbrook's Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain 1974-1979
Ruth Wheeler's Truxxe Trilogy: Review and Author Interview
Television
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Cinema
Roundabout 1963: A Year in Colour
Julien Temple's London: The Modern Babylon
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Richard Thompson, Spriguns, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bridge, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, etc)
Interviews: Chris Wade of Dodson and Fogg, The Fierce and the Dead, Thieves' Kitchen, and Wilson McQueen of Ebony Tower
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 9, Issue 2: Autumn 2012
Table of Contents
John Dee and English Magic
Editorial
Art
The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields
The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (exhibition review)
Hogarth's Industry and Idleness
Jane Rye's Adrian Heath
Damien Hirst at the Tate Modern (exhibition review)
Books
Andro Linklater's Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
Peter Ackroyd's The History of England: Volume 1: Foundation
Em Marshall-Luck's Music in the Landscape: How the British Countryside Inspired Our Greatest Composers
Dominic Sandbrook's Popular Histories
Television
Interview with Dominic Sandbrook and Review of The 70s
Cinema
Roll Out the Barrel
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Seahorses, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Gary Boyle, Robert Wyatt, etc).
Interview with Mark Chadwick of the Levellers
The Albion Band Reborn
Classical Reviews (Delius, Elgar, Byrd, Jennings, Holst, Goossens, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 9, Issue 1: Spring 2012
Table of Contents
The Teddy Boys: England's First Distinct Youth Subculture
Editorial
Art
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer (exhibition review)
Frances Spalding's Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped
Edward Burra (book and exhibition review)
Michael Bracewell and Nicholas Cullinan's Alessandro Raho
Books
Robin Hood Identified?
Jeremy Paxman's Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Cinema
Christopher Monger's Voice Over
Here's a Health to the Barley Mow
Television
Follyfoot
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Be-Bop Deluxe, Decameron, David Bedford, Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, Bowerman, Elgar, Bridge, Bliss, Harvey, Arnold, etc) Diversions
Albion, Vol. 8, Issue 2: Autumn 2011
Table of Contents
The Mystery and Tragedy of the First Chinese Woman in England
Editorial
Art
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World (exhibition and catalogue review)
Nicholas Tromans' Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum
Rachel Campbell-Johnston's Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer
Thomas Houseago: What Went Down
Books
Chiang Yee's The Silent Traveller in London
James Curtis: The Slang King
Michael Wood's The Story of England
Gustav Temple's Am I A Chap?
The Sociocultural Struggle in English Literature: E M Forster's Leonard Bast and Thomas Hardy's Jude Fawley
Cinema
James Hill's Lunch Hour
Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins
Television
Alan Plater's The Beiderbecke Trilogy
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Peter Bellamy, Amazing Blondel, Martin Simpson, Sandy Denny, etc)
Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator: Interview and Retrospective
Classical Reviews (Delius, Hurd, Martelli, Dubery, Elgar, Blackford, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 8, Issue 1: Spring 2011
Table of Contents
A Lasting Appeal: The Art of English Bell-Ringing
Editorial
Photography
Simon Wheatley's Don't Call Me Urban! The Time of Grime
Art
Cate Haste's Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint
Diane Waggoner's The Pre-Raphaelite Lens
Kathleen Palmer's Women War Artists
Books
Why Robin Hood Can't Be Caught
Three Books, Two Authors, Two Englands: A Comparison of the Inter-War Travelogues of J. B. Priestley and H. V. Morton
Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane's The British 'B' Film
Two Into One Will Go: Thoughts on the Double Lives of Four Fictional English Heroic and Anti-Heroic Characters
Cinema
Barney Platts-Mills' Private Road
Clive Donner's Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
David Lean's Brief Encounter
Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain, 1951-1977
Music: Folk and Rock Reviews (Blue Aeroplane, The Albion Band, Graham Bond, Peter Bardens, etc)
Classical Reviews (Byrd, Corp, Elgar, Villiers Stanford, Dowland, Grainger, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 7, Issue 2: Autumn 2010
Table of Contents
Thomas Jefferson, John Lilburne and the English Levellers
Editorial
Art
Review of Henry Moore at Tate Britain
Review of Caro, edited by Karen Wilkin
Books
Magnus Mills: An Overview
Robin Hood Through the Ages
Helen Bradley's Northern Whimsy
Review of Punch Goes to War, 1939-1945, edited by Helen Walasek
Cinema
Review of Peter Watkins' Privilege
Review of Carol Reed's A Kid for Two Farthings
Music: Folk and Rock Reviews (David Rotheray, Beggar's Hill, Rainbow Chasers, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sorabji, Byrd, Moeran, Holbrooke, Purcell, Matthews, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 7, Issue 1: Spring 2010
Table of Contents
Alfred Wallis and William Barnes: Two Naive Artists and Their Environments
George Orwell and the Supernatural
Editorial
Art
Review of Forced Journeys
Review of Marco Livingstone's Peter Blake: One Man Show
Photography
Interview with Justin Partyka
Review of Simon Roberts' We English
Interview with Rankin
Books
Non-Fiction
J B Priestley's English Journey
Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate's The Book of English Magic
Fiction
Andrea Levy's Small Island
Chris Petit's Robinson
Cinema
Chris Petit's Radio On
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Mr Love & Justice, the Albion Band, Thunderclap Newman, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Haydn Wood, Holbrooke, Elgar, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 6, Issue 2
Autumn 2009
Fifth Anniversary Edition, No. 2
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art: Review of Blake's 1809 Exhibition and Catalogue
Banksy versus Bristol Museum: Review
Photography
Review of England Observed: John Gay (1909-1999)
Still Lives: The Photography of Tony Ray-Jones
Books: Reviews of Recent Non-Fiction
Orientalism and the East (End): Review of Paul Newland's The Cultural Construction of London's East End David Gervais's Literary Englands
Forgetting Empire: Review of Simon Featherstone's Englishness
Fiction
Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood
Classics of Englishness, Part 2
Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood Cycle
T H White's The Once and Future King
Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy
E P Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
Gothic Pastoral: Isherwood and Upward's The Mortmere Stories
The Stories of 'Saki'
Helen Walasek's The Best of Punch Cartoons
Cinema Corner
Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room
Music
Review of the Free Reed Revival Re: Masters Series
Folk and Rock Reviews (The Liverpool Scene, Little Johnny England, Jimmy Campbell, etc)
Classical Reviews (Creith, Bate, Eccles, Goossens, York Bowen, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 6, Issue 1
Winter 2009
Fifth Anniversary Edition, No. 1
Table of Contents
Interview with Billy Bragg
Editorial
Frothy Coffee: Continental Influence in Mid-Century England
Art
Review of Tatiana String's Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII
Books
Recent Non-Fiction
Michael Charlesworth's Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Paper Empires: Review of Angelia Poon's Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period
The CPRE's Icons of England
Classics of Englishness, Part 1
The Englishness of Nikolaus Pevsner (Review of The Englishness of English Art)
John Cowper Powys' Weymouth Sands: A Personal View
Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie
Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford
Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude
Henry Green's Back
Market Economy vs. Moral Economy: E. P. Thompson and the Craft of the Social Historian
Raymond Williams' Culture and Society
Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Cinema Corner
Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Neil Ardley, Status Quo, Simon Care, Lindisfarne, etc)
Classical Reviews (Lambert, Handel, Monckton, Ireland, Leighton, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 5, Issue 2
Summer 2008
Table of Contents
The Whitechapel Boys and the Great War
The War Within: Siegfried Sassoon's War Poetry, 1914-1919
Editorial
Art
Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group: Review of the Tate Britain Exhibition
Ian Walker's So Exotic, So Home-Made: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography
Whitechapel at War: Review of the Ben Uri Gallery Exhibition
In Search of the Live Ordinary: Interview with Karen Lubbock of Karen Magazine
Books
Spotlight on Paul Kingsnorth and Real England: The Battle Against the Bland --Review and Author Interview
Jean Moorcroft Wilson's Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet--A New Life
Byron Rogers' The Green Lane to Nowhere: The Life of an English Village
Poetry: Daljit Nagra's Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Cinema
Anton Corbijn's Control
Lionel Jeffries' The Railway Children
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Lazenby, Frank Turner, Steeples, Phil Harding, Lark Rise Band, etc)
Classical: Report on the Second English Music Festival
Classical Reviews (Avison, Rubbra, Vaughan Williams, Rawsthorne, Sterndale Bennett, Bache, etc)
Diversions
'Always Merry and Bright': A Reflection on English Music-Hall
The Winter 2008 edition was dedicated to the memory of Alexander Flux, 1984-2007
Albion, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Winter 2008
Table of Contents
The Rural Ideal and the English Countryside, 1945-2000
Burst Water-Pipes and Roasted Chestnuts: George Orwell's Wartime Writings on Englishness
Editorial
Society
Suits You, Sir: An Interview with Gustav Temple of The Chap
Art
Obituary of Alexander Flux
Interview with Cathy Lomax of the Transition Gallery
Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith's Millais
Books
Non-Fiction
Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland: Review and Author Interview
James Bond: Palliative for Post-Imperial Depression? (Review of Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain)
John Betjeman's Tennis Whites and Teacakes
Arthur Aughey's The Politics of Englishness
Roger Ebbatson's An Imaginary England
Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head
Fiction
Review of David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
Cinema
Silence is Golden: A Reflection on English Silent Cinema (Review of A Cottage on Dartmoor)
Harry Watt and Basil Wright's Night Mail: Review
Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives: Review
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Cropredy Folk Festival, Martin Simpson, Pete Doherty, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bax, Tippett, Moeran, Arnell, Ireland, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Summer 2007
Table of Contents
English Radicalism Dossier
Talking About the New Jerusalem: A Potted History of English Radicalism, including an interview with Leon Rosselson (the eighth article in the Exploring Englishness series.)
The Yorkshire Rebellion of 1820: What Caused It?
Thoughts on the Disunited Kingdom and an English Parliamentary Republic
James Parkinson: The Radical Surgeon of Hoxton
Editorial
Art
Spotlight on the Public Catalogue Foundation: Recording Our Artistic Heritage (Interview with Sonia Roe)
Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, edited by Jan Marsh
Timothy Wilcox's Samuel Palmer
Mark Hallett and Christine Riding's Hogarth
Margaret Garlake's The Sculpture of Reg Butler
Sam Smiles' The Turner Book
Books
Non-Fiction
Imran Ahmad's Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West (Review and Author Interview)
Craig Taylor's Return to Akenfield
Joe Bennett's Mustn't Grumble: An Accidental Return to England
Annette Hope's Londoners' Larder: English Cuisine from Chaucer to the Present
Fiction
Clare Sudbery's The Dying of Delight (Review and Author Interview)
James Hawes' Speak for England
Gwendoline Riley's Joshua Spassky
Cinema
Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ken Russell's Elgar
Three Cases of Murder
Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
Steve Roberts' Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Shane Meadows' This is England: A Psychoanalytical Review
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Rick Wakeman, Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band, Jamie T, etc.)
Classical Reviews (Holst, Frank Bridge, Elgar conducts Elgar)
Sheffield: Sound City (a look at the Sheffield music scene)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 4, Issue 1: Winter 2007
Table of Contents
Exploring Englishness: Domesticity (the seventh article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Through My Eyes: Englishness versus Britishness
Editorial
Society
Poverty in England: Living it Down
Art & Architecture: Banksy: Sneak Like a Revolutionary
Freda Constable's The England of Eric Ravilious
The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880-1940
Artists in Arcadia: The Brotherhood of Ruralists
Books: Spotlight on England in Particular and Common Ground (Sue Clifford and Angela King Interview)
Fiction: Diana Evans' 26a
Non-Fiction
Billy Bragg's The Progressive Patriot
Francis Meynell's The Week-End Book
Cinema: Look Back in Anger and the Emergence of the 'Angry Young Man'
Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood
Review of Basil Dearden's The League of Gentlemen
Free Cinema: A Retrospective (Interview with Walter Lassally)
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Pet Shop Boys, Seth Lakeman, the Strawbs, etc.)
Classical Reviews (The Primrose Piano Quartet, and Classic Children's Songs)
Levellers Rising (Interview with Mark Chadwick, DVD and Concert Reviews)
Diversions: Historical Figures and Political Subversion in English Nursery Rhymes (a Mere Bagatelle)
Albion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: Summer 2006
Table of Contents
Feature: English Eccentricity (the sixth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Art & Architecture
Renewal and Decline: English Art and the Countryside
Books
Fiction
Capturing Everyday Beauty: an Interview with Gwendoline Riley
Non-Fiction
Westwood and Simpson's The Lore of the Land
Richard Weight's Patriots
Gerry Hanson's England, My England
Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy
Antony Easthope's Englishness and National Culture
Poetry
John Betjeman's Collected Poems
George Szirtes' An English Apocalypse
Cinema
Landscapes of the Heart: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
Music
Spotlight on Em Marshall and the English Music Festival
Diversions
English Folk-Songs Explain'd: Singing the Travels
Poetry: Lines Written Upon Being Ambushed by a Wasp
Albion, Vol. 3, Issue 1: Winter 2006
Table of Contents
Feature: The English and 'Abroad' (the fifth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Through My Eyes: Marmite, Croissants, and Ikea (A less-than-serious reminiscence of living abroad in France and Sweden)
Art & Architecture
British Bricks in England: Imperialism, Industrialisation and Victorian Architecture
Books
Fiction
Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl: Review and Author Interview
Julian Barnes' Arthur and George
Zadie Smith's On Beauty
Raymond Briggs' Ethel & Ernest: A True Story
Poetry
Roger McGough's Collected Poems
Simon Armitage's All Points North
Non-Fiction
Godfrey Smith's The English Companion
Richard Lewis' The Magic Spring: My Year Learning to be English
Antony Miall and David Milsted's The Xenophobe's Guide to the English
Christopher Winn's I Never Knew That About England
William Black's The Land That Thyme Forgot
Spotlight on Persephone Books: Reclaiming Our Feminine Literary Past
Cinema
The Horror of it All: Dynamics of Class and Power in the Hammer Gothics
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love
Andrew Kötting's Gallivant
Nick Love's The Business
Jean Renoir's The River
Danny Boyle's Millions
Music
Popular Releases
Folk and Acoustic Releases
Diversions
The Best Yorkshire Pudding Outside Yorkshire
Albion, Vol. 2, Issue 2: Summer 2005
Table of Contents
Feature: English Emotional Life (the fourth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Through My Eyes: R.I.P. Stiff Upper-Lip?
Books: Books on Englishness (Feature)
Kate Fox's Watching the English: Review and Author Interview
Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity
Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Michael Bracewell's England is Mine: Pop Culture in Albion from Wilde to Goldie
Cinema
Review of Carry On Nurse
Music: Jake Thackray: A Retrospective (Feature)
The Fall's album reissues (Feature)
Folk and Acoustic Releases
Rock and Pop Releases
Diversions
In Defence of English Food
An Elizabethan Syllabub
Poetry: The Best Lover
Albion, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Winter 2005
Table of Contents
Feature: Englishness and the Class System (the third article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: Review of H G Wells's The History of Mr Polly
Cinema: Working-Class Neo-Realism (Review of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Kes)
Music: Interview with Steve Cox of Mr Love & Justice
Mr Love & Justice's Homeground
James Turner's Best Albums of 2004
Review of the Streets' A Grand Don't Come for Free
Diversions
A Modern Trifle
English Customs: Apple-Tree Wassailing
Proverb
Albion, Vol. 1, Issue 2: Summer 2004
Table of Contents
Feature: The English Sense of Humour (the second article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody
Geoffrey Willans' Molesworth quartet
Cinema: Henry Cornelius' Passport to Pimlico
An Appreciation of Charters and Caldicott
Music: Interview with Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg and Chris Leslie
Fairport Convention's Over the Next Hill
Review of the Morris On Series of Albums
Interview with Ashley Hutchings
Diversions
English Food: A Decadent Summer Pudding
Humour: Gather Ye Pigeons While Ye May
80 on the A64
The Back Pages
Albion, Vol. 1, Issue 1: Winter 2004
Table of Contents
Feature: The Rural Myth (the first article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: J L Carr's A Month in the Country
Cinema: John Schlesinger's Billy Liar
Music: Interview with Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy's Anglicana
Diversions
English food: Beer Bread
Humour
Proverbs
Table of Contents
John Dee and English Magic
Editorial
Art
The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields
The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (exhibition review)
Hogarth's Industry and Idleness
Jane Rye's Adrian Heath
Damien Hirst at the Tate Modern (exhibition review)
Books
Andro Linklater's Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
Peter Ackroyd's The History of England: Volume 1: Foundation
Em Marshall-Luck's Music in the Landscape: How the British Countryside Inspired Our Greatest Composers
Dominic Sandbrook's Popular Histories
Television
Interview with Dominic Sandbrook and Review of The 70s
Cinema
Roll Out the Barrel
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Seahorses, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Gary Boyle, Robert Wyatt, etc).
Interview with Mark Chadwick of the Levellers
The Albion Band Reborn
Classical Reviews (Delius, Elgar, Byrd, Jennings, Holst, Goossens, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 9, Issue 1: Spring 2012
Table of Contents
The Teddy Boys: England's First Distinct Youth Subculture
Editorial
Art
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer (exhibition review)
Frances Spalding's Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped
Edward Burra (book and exhibition review)
Michael Bracewell and Nicholas Cullinan's Alessandro Raho
Books
Robin Hood Identified?
Jeremy Paxman's Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Cinema
Christopher Monger's Voice Over
Here's a Health to the Barley Mow
Television
Follyfoot
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Be-Bop Deluxe, Decameron, David Bedford, Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, Bowerman, Elgar, Bridge, Bliss, Harvey, Arnold, etc) Diversions
Albion, Vol. 8, Issue 2: Autumn 2011
Table of Contents
The Mystery and Tragedy of the First Chinese Woman in England
Editorial
Art
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World (exhibition and catalogue review)
Nicholas Tromans' Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum
Rachel Campbell-Johnston's Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer
Thomas Houseago: What Went Down
Books
Chiang Yee's The Silent Traveller in London
James Curtis: The Slang King
Michael Wood's The Story of England
Gustav Temple's Am I A Chap?
The Sociocultural Struggle in English Literature: E M Forster's Leonard Bast and Thomas Hardy's Jude Fawley
Cinema
James Hill's Lunch Hour
Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins
Television
Alan Plater's The Beiderbecke Trilogy
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Peter Bellamy, Amazing Blondel, Martin Simpson, Sandy Denny, etc)
Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator: Interview and Retrospective
Classical Reviews (Delius, Hurd, Martelli, Dubery, Elgar, Blackford, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 8, Issue 1: Spring 2011
Table of Contents
A Lasting Appeal: The Art of English Bell-Ringing
Editorial
Photography
Simon Wheatley's Don't Call Me Urban! The Time of Grime
Art
Cate Haste's Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint
Diane Waggoner's The Pre-Raphaelite Lens
Kathleen Palmer's Women War Artists
Books
Why Robin Hood Can't Be Caught
Three Books, Two Authors, Two Englands: A Comparison of the Inter-War Travelogues of J. B. Priestley and H. V. Morton
Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane's The British 'B' Film
Two Into One Will Go: Thoughts on the Double Lives of Four Fictional English Heroic and Anti-Heroic Characters
Cinema
Barney Platts-Mills' Private Road
Clive Donner's Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
David Lean's Brief Encounter
Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain, 1951-1977
Music: Folk and Rock Reviews (Blue Aeroplane, The Albion Band, Graham Bond, Peter Bardens, etc)
Classical Reviews (Byrd, Corp, Elgar, Villiers Stanford, Dowland, Grainger, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 7, Issue 2: Autumn 2010
Table of Contents
Thomas Jefferson, John Lilburne and the English Levellers
Editorial
Art
Review of Henry Moore at Tate Britain
Review of Caro, edited by Karen Wilkin
Books
Magnus Mills: An Overview
Robin Hood Through the Ages
Helen Bradley's Northern Whimsy
Review of Punch Goes to War, 1939-1945, edited by Helen Walasek
Cinema
Review of Peter Watkins' Privilege
Review of Carol Reed's A Kid for Two Farthings
Music: Folk and Rock Reviews (David Rotheray, Beggar's Hill, Rainbow Chasers, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sorabji, Byrd, Moeran, Holbrooke, Purcell, Matthews, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 7, Issue 1: Spring 2010
Table of Contents
Alfred Wallis and William Barnes: Two Naive Artists and Their Environments
George Orwell and the Supernatural
Editorial
Art
Review of Forced Journeys
Review of Marco Livingstone's Peter Blake: One Man Show
Photography
Interview with Justin Partyka
Review of Simon Roberts' We English
Interview with Rankin
Books
Non-Fiction
J B Priestley's English Journey
Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate's The Book of English Magic
Fiction
Andrea Levy's Small Island
Chris Petit's Robinson
Cinema
Chris Petit's Radio On
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Mr Love & Justice, the Albion Band, Thunderclap Newman, etc)
Classical Reviews (Sullivan, Haydn Wood, Holbrooke, Elgar, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 6, Issue 2
Autumn 2009
Fifth Anniversary Edition, No. 2
Table of Contents
Editorial
Art: Review of Blake's 1809 Exhibition and Catalogue
Banksy versus Bristol Museum: Review
Photography
Review of England Observed: John Gay (1909-1999)
Still Lives: The Photography of Tony Ray-Jones
Books: Reviews of Recent Non-Fiction
Orientalism and the East (End): Review of Paul Newland's The Cultural Construction of London's East End David Gervais's Literary Englands
Forgetting Empire: Review of Simon Featherstone's Englishness
Fiction
Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood
Classics of Englishness, Part 2
Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood Cycle
T H White's The Once and Future King
Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy
E P Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class
Gothic Pastoral: Isherwood and Upward's The Mortmere Stories
The Stories of 'Saki'
Helen Walasek's The Best of Punch Cartoons
Cinema Corner
Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room
Music
Review of the Free Reed Revival Re: Masters Series
Folk and Rock Reviews (The Liverpool Scene, Little Johnny England, Jimmy Campbell, etc)
Classical Reviews (Creith, Bate, Eccles, Goossens, York Bowen, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 6, Issue 1
Winter 2009
Fifth Anniversary Edition, No. 1
Table of Contents
Interview with Billy Bragg
Editorial
Frothy Coffee: Continental Influence in Mid-Century England
Art
Review of Tatiana String's Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII
Books
Recent Non-Fiction
Michael Charlesworth's Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Paper Empires: Review of Angelia Poon's Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period
The CPRE's Icons of England
Classics of Englishness, Part 1
The Englishness of Nikolaus Pevsner (Review of The Englishness of English Art)
John Cowper Powys' Weymouth Sands: A Personal View
Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie
Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford
Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude
Henry Green's Back
Market Economy vs. Moral Economy: E. P. Thompson and the Craft of the Social Historian
Raymond Williams' Culture and Society
Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Cinema Corner
Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950
Music
Folk and Rock Reviews (Neil Ardley, Status Quo, Simon Care, Lindisfarne, etc)
Classical Reviews (Lambert, Handel, Monckton, Ireland, Leighton, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 5, Issue 2
Summer 2008
Table of Contents
The Whitechapel Boys and the Great War
The War Within: Siegfried Sassoon's War Poetry, 1914-1919
Editorial
Art
Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group: Review of the Tate Britain Exhibition
Ian Walker's So Exotic, So Home-Made: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography
Whitechapel at War: Review of the Ben Uri Gallery Exhibition
In Search of the Live Ordinary: Interview with Karen Lubbock of Karen Magazine
Books
Spotlight on Paul Kingsnorth and Real England: The Battle Against the Bland --Review and Author Interview
Jean Moorcroft Wilson's Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet--A New Life
Byron Rogers' The Green Lane to Nowhere: The Life of an English Village
Poetry: Daljit Nagra's Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Cinema
Anton Corbijn's Control
Lionel Jeffries' The Railway Children
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Lazenby, Frank Turner, Steeples, Phil Harding, Lark Rise Band, etc)
Classical: Report on the Second English Music Festival
Classical Reviews (Avison, Rubbra, Vaughan Williams, Rawsthorne, Sterndale Bennett, Bache, etc)
Diversions
'Always Merry and Bright': A Reflection on English Music-Hall
The Winter 2008 edition was dedicated to the memory of Alexander Flux, 1984-2007
Albion, Vol. 5, Issue 1
Winter 2008
Table of Contents
The Rural Ideal and the English Countryside, 1945-2000
Burst Water-Pipes and Roasted Chestnuts: George Orwell's Wartime Writings on Englishness
Editorial
Society
Suits You, Sir: An Interview with Gustav Temple of The Chap
Art
Obituary of Alexander Flux
Interview with Cathy Lomax of the Transition Gallery
Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith's Millais
Books
Non-Fiction
Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland: Review and Author Interview
James Bond: Palliative for Post-Imperial Depression? (Review of Simon Winder's The Man Who Saved Britain)
John Betjeman's Tennis Whites and Teacakes
Arthur Aughey's The Politics of Englishness
Roger Ebbatson's An Imaginary England
Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head
Fiction
Review of David Mitchell's Black Swan Green
Cinema
Silence is Golden: A Reflection on English Silent Cinema (Review of A Cottage on Dartmoor)
Harry Watt and Basil Wright's Night Mail: Review
Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives: Review
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Cropredy Folk Festival, Martin Simpson, Pete Doherty, etc)
Classical Reviews (Bax, Tippett, Moeran, Arnell, Ireland, etc)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Summer 2007
Table of Contents
English Radicalism Dossier
Talking About the New Jerusalem: A Potted History of English Radicalism, including an interview with Leon Rosselson (the eighth article in the Exploring Englishness series.)
The Yorkshire Rebellion of 1820: What Caused It?
Thoughts on the Disunited Kingdom and an English Parliamentary Republic
James Parkinson: The Radical Surgeon of Hoxton
Editorial
Art
Spotlight on the Public Catalogue Foundation: Recording Our Artistic Heritage (Interview with Sonia Roe)
Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, edited by Jan Marsh
Timothy Wilcox's Samuel Palmer
Mark Hallett and Christine Riding's Hogarth
Margaret Garlake's The Sculpture of Reg Butler
Sam Smiles' The Turner Book
Books
Non-Fiction
Imran Ahmad's Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West (Review and Author Interview)
Craig Taylor's Return to Akenfield
Joe Bennett's Mustn't Grumble: An Accidental Return to England
Annette Hope's Londoners' Larder: English Cuisine from Chaucer to the Present
Fiction
Clare Sudbery's The Dying of Delight (Review and Author Interview)
James Hawes' Speak for England
Gwendoline Riley's Joshua Spassky
Cinema
Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ken Russell's Elgar
Three Cases of Murder
Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
Steve Roberts' Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Shane Meadows' This is England: A Psychoanalytical Review
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Rick Wakeman, Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band, Jamie T, etc.)
Classical Reviews (Holst, Frank Bridge, Elgar conducts Elgar)
Sheffield: Sound City (a look at the Sheffield music scene)
Diversions
Albion, Vol. 4, Issue 1: Winter 2007
Table of Contents
Exploring Englishness: Domesticity (the seventh article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Through My Eyes: Englishness versus Britishness
Editorial
Society
Poverty in England: Living it Down
Art & Architecture: Banksy: Sneak Like a Revolutionary
Freda Constable's The England of Eric Ravilious
The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880-1940
Artists in Arcadia: The Brotherhood of Ruralists
Books: Spotlight on England in Particular and Common Ground (Sue Clifford and Angela King Interview)
Fiction: Diana Evans' 26a
Non-Fiction
Billy Bragg's The Progressive Patriot
Francis Meynell's The Week-End Book
Cinema: Look Back in Anger and the Emergence of the 'Angry Young Man'
Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood
Review of Basil Dearden's The League of Gentlemen
Free Cinema: A Retrospective (Interview with Walter Lassally)
Music
Folk, Rock and Pop Reviews (Pet Shop Boys, Seth Lakeman, the Strawbs, etc.)
Classical Reviews (The Primrose Piano Quartet, and Classic Children's Songs)
Levellers Rising (Interview with Mark Chadwick, DVD and Concert Reviews)
Diversions: Historical Figures and Political Subversion in English Nursery Rhymes (a Mere Bagatelle)
Albion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: Summer 2006
Table of Contents
Feature: English Eccentricity (the sixth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Art & Architecture
Renewal and Decline: English Art and the Countryside
Books
Fiction
Capturing Everyday Beauty: an Interview with Gwendoline Riley
Non-Fiction
Westwood and Simpson's The Lore of the Land
Richard Weight's Patriots
Gerry Hanson's England, My England
Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy
Antony Easthope's Englishness and National Culture
Poetry
John Betjeman's Collected Poems
George Szirtes' An English Apocalypse
Cinema
Landscapes of the Heart: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
Music
Spotlight on Em Marshall and the English Music Festival
Diversions
English Folk-Songs Explain'd: Singing the Travels
Poetry: Lines Written Upon Being Ambushed by a Wasp
Albion, Vol. 3, Issue 1: Winter 2006
Table of Contents
Feature: The English and 'Abroad' (the fifth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Through My Eyes: Marmite, Croissants, and Ikea (A less-than-serious reminiscence of living abroad in France and Sweden)
Art & Architecture
British Bricks in England: Imperialism, Industrialisation and Victorian Architecture
Books
Fiction
Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl: Review and Author Interview
Julian Barnes' Arthur and George
Zadie Smith's On Beauty
Raymond Briggs' Ethel & Ernest: A True Story
Poetry
Roger McGough's Collected Poems
Simon Armitage's All Points North
Non-Fiction
Godfrey Smith's The English Companion
Richard Lewis' The Magic Spring: My Year Learning to be English
Antony Miall and David Milsted's The Xenophobe's Guide to the English
Christopher Winn's I Never Knew That About England
William Black's The Land That Thyme Forgot
Spotlight on Persephone Books: Reclaiming Our Feminine Literary Past
Cinema
The Horror of it All: Dynamics of Class and Power in the Hammer Gothics
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love
Andrew Kötting's Gallivant
Nick Love's The Business
Jean Renoir's The River
Danny Boyle's Millions
Music
Popular Releases
Folk and Acoustic Releases
Diversions
The Best Yorkshire Pudding Outside Yorkshire
Albion, Vol. 2, Issue 2: Summer 2005
Table of Contents
Feature: English Emotional Life (the fourth article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Through My Eyes: R.I.P. Stiff Upper-Lip?
Books: Books on Englishness (Feature)
Kate Fox's Watching the English: Review and Author Interview
Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity
Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Michael Bracewell's England is Mine: Pop Culture in Albion from Wilde to Goldie
Cinema
Review of Carry On Nurse
Music: Jake Thackray: A Retrospective (Feature)
The Fall's album reissues (Feature)
Folk and Acoustic Releases
Rock and Pop Releases
Diversions
In Defence of English Food
An Elizabethan Syllabub
Poetry: The Best Lover
Albion, Vol. 2, Issue 1: Winter 2005
Table of Contents
Feature: Englishness and the Class System (the third article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: Review of H G Wells's The History of Mr Polly
Cinema: Working-Class Neo-Realism (Review of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Kes)
Music: Interview with Steve Cox of Mr Love & Justice
Mr Love & Justice's Homeground
James Turner's Best Albums of 2004
Review of the Streets' A Grand Don't Come for Free
Diversions
A Modern Trifle
English Customs: Apple-Tree Wassailing
Proverb
Albion, Vol. 1, Issue 2: Summer 2004
Table of Contents
Feature: The English Sense of Humour (the second article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody
Geoffrey Willans' Molesworth quartet
Cinema: Henry Cornelius' Passport to Pimlico
An Appreciation of Charters and Caldicott
Music: Interview with Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg and Chris Leslie
Fairport Convention's Over the Next Hill
Review of the Morris On Series of Albums
Interview with Ashley Hutchings
Diversions
English Food: A Decadent Summer Pudding
Humour: Gather Ye Pigeons While Ye May
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The Back Pages
Albion, Vol. 1, Issue 1: Winter 2004
Table of Contents
Feature: The Rural Myth (the first article in the Exploring Englishness series, in which we attempt to pin down and dissect various aspects of the English character.)
Editorial
Books: J L Carr's A Month in the Country
Cinema: John Schlesinger's Billy Liar
Music: Interview with Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy's Anglicana
Diversions
English food: Beer Bread
Humour
Proverbs