These Old Shades

These Old ShadesOn a previously uneventful night in Paris, Justin Alastaithe infamous and dastardly Duke of Avonis delivered a stroke of serendipity in the form of a disheveled denarian. Taking in the lost soul as a page, the Duke is given the opportunity for revenge against the Comte de Saint Vire and inadvertent redemption in the loving eyes of his new ward.

and the United Kingdom

” “Soliloquy of a Turkey

and the subsequent collapse of order in Victorian England

Praised by Virginia Woolf

Rosemary Sassoon’s Handwriting of the Twentieth Century provides the first historical record of teaching the skill of writing in the last 100 years

philosophers and politicians for centuries

and how their interplay permeates the cultural consciousness

yet their participation raises certain questions

one-to-one performances in alternative spaces which carry a political or feminist message

aesthetic construction and reception

place and reality

extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan