Tag: social history
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People Make Television
The offbeat East London gallery Raven Row returns with a treasure trove of 1970s participatory TV, providing a panoramic social history of a tumultuous time
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John Cornish – interview: ‘It would be unfair just to look back on my father’s career as that of a good pictorial social historian – his artwork has aesthetic quality; it is real and immersive’
The son of the artist Norman Cornish, whose work is synonymous with mining life in the County Durham town of Spennymoor, looks back at his father’s life and artistic legacy
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Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 9 December 2005-26 March 2006 National Museum of Australia, Canberra 21 April-4 June 2006 The exhibition ‘Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era’ has succeeded in seizing the imagination of thousands…
