Archive: Part 2
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.) Through My Eyes: R.I.P. Stiff Upper-Lip? Books: Books on Englishness (Feature) Review of Kate Fox's Watching the English Review of Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity Review of Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination Review of Michael Bracewell's England is Mine: Pop Culture in Albion from Wilde to Goldie Cinema Corner: Review of Carry On Nurse Music: Jake Thackray: A Retrospective (Feature) Review of the Fall's album reissues (Feature) Reviews: Folk and Acoustic Releases
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.) Through My Eyes: Marmite, Croissants and Ikea (A less-than-serious reminiscence of living abroad in France and Sweden) British Bricks in England: Imperialism, Industrialisation and Victorian Architecture Review of Julian Barnes' Arthur and George Review of Zadie Smith's On Beauty Review of Raymond Briggs' Ethel & Ernest: A True Story Review of Roger McGough's Collected Poems Review of Simon Armitage's All Points North Review of Godfrey Smith's The English Companion Review of Richard Lewis' The Magic Spring: My Year Learning to be English Review of Antony Miall and David Milsted's The Xenophobe's Guide to the English Review of Christopher Winn's I Never Knew That About England Review of William Black's The Land That Thyme Forgot Persephone Books: Reclaiming Our Feminine Literary Past Cinema Corner: The Horror of it All: Dynamics of Class and Power in the Hammer Gothics Review of Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love Review of Andrew Kötting's Gallivant Review of Nick Love's The Business Review of Jean Renoir's The River Review of Danny Boyle's Millions Reviews: Popular Music Releases Reviews: Folk and Acoustic Releases The Best Yorkshire Pudding Outside Yorkshire
Albion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: Summer 2006
Table of Contents Renewal and Decline: English Art and the Countryside Capturing Everyday Beauty: an Interview with Gwendoline Riley
Review of Westwood and Simpson's The Lore of the Land
Review of Richard Weight's Patriots
Review of Gerry Hanson's England, My England
Review of Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy
Review of Antony Easthope's Englishness and National Culture
Review of John Betjeman's Collected Poems
Review of George Szirtes' An English Apocalypse
Cinema Corner: Landscapes of the Heart: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
Music: Spotlight on Em Marshall and the English Music Festival
English Folk-Songs Explain'd: Singing the Travels
Poetry: Lines Written Upon Being Ambushed by a Wasp
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 Poverty in Art & Architecture: Banksy: Sneak Like a Revolutionary Review of Freda Constable's The Review of The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880-1940 Artists in Arcadia: The Brotherhood of Ruralists Books: Spotlight on Fiction: Review of Diana Evans' 26a Review of Billy Bragg's The Progressive Patriot Review of Francis Meynell's The Week-End Book Review of Jane Grigson's English Food Cinema Corner:Look Back in Anger and the Emergence of the 'Angry Young Man' Review of 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) Historical Figures and Political Subversion in English Nursery Rhymes (a Mere Bagatelle)
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)
Review of Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900
Review of Timothy Wilcox's Samuel Palmer
Review of Mark Hallett and Christine Riding's Hogarth
Review of Margaret Garlake's The Sculpture of Reg Butler
Review of Sam Smiles' The Turner Book
Books: Non-Fiction
Imran Ahmad's Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West (Review and Author Interview)
Review of Craig Taylor's Return to Akenfield
Review of Joe Bennett's Mustn't Grumble: An Accidental Return to England
Review of Annette Hope's Londoners' Larder: English Cuisine from Chaucer to the Present
Fiction: Clare Sudbery's The Dying of Delight (Review and Author Interview)
Review of James Hawes' Speak for England
Review of Gwendoline Riley's Joshua Spassky
Cinema Corner: Review of Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman
Review of Ken Russell's Elgar
Review of Three Cases of Murder
Review of Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
Review of 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
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