The Disintegrated Convict (1907) A Silent Film Review

After brutally beating a prisoner, the police leave him alone in his cell but soon they (and the audience) learn of the man’s powers to change form and bend the laws of physics to make good his esc…

Claire Madden: the forgotten feminist - LSE History

Kelly Bosomworth explores the archive of Claire Madden, held at the Women's Library since 1999. She was a gender equality campaigner and member of the Six Point Group.

JOSEPH TRAPANESE finds himself in the belly of a WHALEFALL - ON THE SCORE

Inside a 20-year career encompassing over 120 scores, Joseph Trapanese has travelled to many strange worlds and put uncountable characters in no small end of inconceivable fates they must struggle […]

Inside the Grolier Club, a book lover’s paradise in Manhattan

Lauren Kane browses the stacks and shelves at this New York haven for bibiliophiles since 1884

Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch The Archive — Corridor8

“The archives must never be a dead place, a worshipping of the past.” Joan Nestle  As the queer theorist Ann Cvetkovich tells us: “gay and lesbian

Treasures of National Records of Scotland: Plan of the order at the Battle of Culloden

The Battle of Culloden was fought on 16 April 1746 between the King’s army, commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and the Jacobite army, under Charles Edward Stuart, resulting in a roy…

A broom, a place, and all that gathers between | Garland Magazine

Nikki Beem follows a Sunhouse Craft broom from a Kentucky broomcorn field to the floor it will sweep, tracing the relationships it gathers.

East Dudgeon on the High Seas, or vice-versa

Or lighthouse-keeping. Or, in fact, lightship-keeping. I read about MEN OF THE LIGHTSHIP aka MEN OF LIGHTSHIP ’61’ in Dai Vaughan’s amazing Portrait of an Invisible Man — fr…

"Moving Back to the State Where I Grew Up Was a Big Deal for Us" — Scaling Down and Embracing...

Bright, airy spaces are played off against dramatic moodiness to bring out the best of both in a design duo’s home

Review: Steve Reich's “Music for 18 Musicians”: Staged Variations at the Park Avenue Armory -...

Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians,” three times in a row, is an exercise in endurance. Not just for the musicians – it’s an athletic feat for them – but for the audience, too. Alan Pierson’s...

Changing LTM cameras to M Mount and learning camera repair (Part 1)

to learn advanced repairs that I haven't done before and to satisfy my curiosity if an LTM mount camera can be converted to M mount

Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books @Grolier Club | Collector Daily

WICKER - Hammer to Nail

(The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 15-18 in Middleburg, VA. Check out Chris Reed’s Wicker movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What if...

Shovel Dance Collective – Everything in Readiness

With “Everything in Readiness”, Shovel Dance Collective have combined vision and virtuosity, intuitive gristle and scholastic rigour to create the best folk album of the year.

Flea Bite: Missed Connections - The Magazine Antiques

Since 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design.

Playing for Cardiff City for £1 a Week

Football transfer fees and player wages have been very much in the headlines in recent months. The scale of the fees and the salaries paid in the modern era would have astounded players from other …

Rediscovering John Flaxman, neoclassical master

University College London holds the largest collection of works by the sculptor John Flaxman. His plaster models for funerary monuments and drawings show why, 200 years after the artist’s death, his...

'It is hard to imagine a more perfect realisation of Baillie Scott’s ideal of domestic harmony':...

Church Rate Corner in Cambridge — home of Michael Nedo and Gillian Moore — is a lovingly maintained house that perfectly captures the spirit of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement and the domestic ideals of...

The Kanazawa Phonograph Museum: Music from a Time Capsule

Copper has an exchange program with selected magazines, where we share articles between publications. This one's from Germany's FIDELITY Magazine.   Did you know that Japan’s infamous “overtourism”...

100 Objects #21: Window from the House of D - 99% Invisible

In 1932, the Women’s House of Detention—New York City’s first women’s prison—opened in the heart of Greenwich Village. It was opened to make “wayward” women quiet, private, and properly feminine. And...