Seabirds on Inner Farne Island, Northumberland (all the nice gulls love a Taylor). Copyright © Isabel Taylor 2019

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)
 

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