The #RobieHouse, in #Chicago, is part of the larger #20thCentury #Architecture of #FrankLloydWright #UNESCOWorldHeritage Site found across the #US. The house was completed in 1910 for the #Robie family, but quickly had to sell the house after acquiring family debt. #americana #wa #canon80d #photo #travel #ushistory #landmark
#20th-century — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #20th-century, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/727816/ Vanished work of Mavis Pusey brought together in Los Angeles exhibition – The Art Newspaper #20thCentury #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #Design #Éire #Entertainment #Exhibitions #HammerMuseum #IE #Ireland
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Ayont the Thistle
Through essays, poems, reflections & other creative responses, more than 70 writers from around the world explore Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark 1926 poem 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦, examining its language, structure & imagery, its power & its provocations
https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/ayont-the-thistle/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The stars like thistle’s roses floo’er
The sterile growth o’ Space ootour,
That clad in bitter blasts spreids oot
Frae me, the sustenance o’ its root…—from September: an illustrated Royal Society of Edinburgh talk placing MacDiarmid’s 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯… in its cultural, political & biographical context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04w6WnXr4PQ
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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Today, October 8, is (naturally) Octopus Day … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦 (1926)
Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #OctopusDay
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Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow,
a liar, a thief, a teller of the future
(with dice, of course), a musician,
herald and messenger of the gods…—Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #Hermes #Mercury #Wednesday #Roman #Classical
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Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
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The new episode of The Carrying Stream podcast discusses the work of Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973) with David Graham & Kirsty Gunn from North House Press. North House has recently republished Gunn’s debut novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵 (1926), along with two of his later words, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 (1943) & 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 (1952)
https://pod.link/1865430519/episode/MzZkYmNmY2YtMjk4Mi00NDczLWI1YjMtNjQ3MjZiNTdjMmMw
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Highlands #NeilGunn #NeilMGunn #podcast
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The merry badger keeps his way
Nocturnally,
And I go merry to my play
Even as he…—Olive Fraser, “The Solitaries”
from THE WRONG MUSIC, @canongate.co.uk 1989Happy National Badger Day – 6 October – to all who celebrate!
https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/brocktober
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #naturepoetry #womenwriters #badger #badgers #NationalBadgerDay
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Women of the Saltire Society
20 October, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedJoin the Saltire Society for a special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society & Scotland’s cultural life
The event will also offer a unique opportunity to view archival material especially on display for the day, & to visit the Saltire Society’s 90th anniversary exhibition
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Christmas Eve. The hour between tea and black-out.
The stove reddens and snores in the gathering dusk.
Five tin helmets hang in a row on the wall,
Their little black pot-bellies gleam in the glow of the fire…—Flora Garry, “Ambulance Depot, 1942”
published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–19452/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #warpoetry #WW2 #womenwriters
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Faar’s Baabie Jeanie’s loon? The aal wife hersel
Stans treeshin hame the milkers at the ley park yett.
Faa caas the mornin cairt an fordals neeps an strae,
Wi waages up an risin an fee’d folk sae ull to get?…—“War: 1939–1945” by Flora Garry (1900–2000)—born #OTD, 30 September
published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–19451/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #warpoetry #WW2 #womenwriters
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Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
Late swallow, and fly away.
Here is no rest
For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
Your comrades all have flown
To seek their southern paradise
Across the great earth’s downward sloping side,
And you are alone…—Edwin Muir, “The Late Swallow”
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🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
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The Mandolinist -- Mark Gertler --Oil on board --1934
I'm surprised that Tate Britain does not currently have this work on display. Gertler is a significant British painter, and this work both merits attention and would be popular with the public.
#Art #BritishArt #MarkGertler #TheMandolinist #Painting #20thCentury #TateBritain
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Archival Breezes 2, or de-Glasgowifying Agnes Owens
Kirstin Innes on the mis-categorisation of Agnes Owens as a ‘Glasgow writer’.
“[Owens] managed some strange alchemy of hyper-locality and universality which makes her a bard of small town existence, wherever that small town might be. But it isn’t of Glasgow.”
https://substack.com/@kirstininnes/p-216883261
#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #20thcentury #workingclasswriters #AgnesOwens #Glasgow
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🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
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📻 ICYMI: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
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🧲 ICYMI: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
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📻 ICYMI: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
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🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.
An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.
👉 https://seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets-work-teded-animation
#1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video
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The Spanish Civil War (2/2)
The Long Road to Reconciliation52 min - Available until 10/12/2026
Spring 1939. After 1,000 days of fighting and more than 400,000 deaths, the war ended with Madrid taken by the Francoists and the Republic defeated. The post-war period was characterised by repression of the losing side and deep divisions often split families right down the middle.
arte.tv/en/videos/118255-002-A…
#ArteTV #ArteReportage #History #Spain #Espana #SpanishCivilWar #War #Society #Politics #20thCentury #Documentary -
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”
4/5
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry
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@gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…
3/5
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1590
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction
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THE RAIDERS
Currently on BBC SoundsSR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn
2/5
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks
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SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction
1/5
https://1890s.ca/crockett_bio/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien
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“It all started in the playground – the word was there was a vampire and everyone was going to head out there after school”
Beginning #OTD, 23 September 1954, and for three consecutive nights, over 200 children aged from 4 to 14 – armed with knives, clubs, & even a crucifix – hunted a 7-foot-tall vampire through Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis
#Scottish #folklore #Glasgow #Gorbals #vampires #vampire #urbanmyths #20thcentury
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The Spanish Civil War (1/2)
The Long Road to Reconciliation53 min - Available until 10/12/2026
In two parts this documentary tells the painful story of the Spanish Civil War with descendants of Republicans and Francoists. July 1936. A military coup triggers a bloody civil war in Spain. After three years of fighting and 400,000 deaths, the war finally ends in the spring of 1939 with General Franco’s forces victorious. Heavy repression follows with the new #dictatorship interning thousands of people in concentration camps.
arte.tv/en/videos/118255-001-A…
#ArteTV #ArteReportage #History #Spain #Espana #SpanishCivilWar #War #Society #Politics #20thCentury #Documentary -
📻 ICYMI: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
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📻 WATCH: In 1924, #HelenKeller wrote a letter describing how she experienced a live #radio broadcast of #Beethoven's Ninth through touch alone.
During a #LettersLive event in #London, actor #GillianAnderson read Keller's words about feeling musical vibrations through the radio receiver.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/letters-live-gillian-anderson-helen-keller-new-york-symphony-orchestra
#1900s #20thcentury #blind #blindness #deaf #deafness #emotions #literacy #history #music #orchestra #performance #reading #senses #sound #technology #tech #tksst #video
