Image: Commons There is a myth that Van Gogh was self-taught genius whose greatest works were knocked out at the rate of five or six a week.... Continue reading
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Commons image By Dennis Broe One strand of the American character, popularized by America’s first novelist James Fenimore Cooper, is that of the rugged but honest pioneer,... Continue reading
Credit: Lance Skundrich/Riot Games By Jack Clarke The first PC I owned came from the back room of Bowlers Market in Manchester, rammed into a grey box... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia Commons By Leila d’Aronville Recently, I’ve noticed posts and conversations where people express disillusionment with how we talk about the region and what it means... Continue reading
Image: Working-class Writers’ Collective By Jake Trelease In a rainy morning in 1954, Sid Chaplin climbed out of the pit and handed Raymond Williams a letter: ‘just... Continue reading
Image: Wikimedia Commons By Jim Aitken It is a real pity that Erich Fromm was not around to psychoanalyse Donald Trump. The only terms that have been... Continue reading
Vienna City Hall Christmas Market By Dennis Broe Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city for a long time, and although it still maintains that... Continue reading
In this edition of Our Culture, we turn to the prison system, one of the most hidden yet culturally rich spaces in Britain. Often seen only as... Continue reading
In this instalment of the Our Culture Series, writer and artist Stefan Szczelkun traces the hidden history of how radical working-class culture. From the Chartists to rave... Continue reading
There’s been a powerful poetic reaction to the genocidal acts by Israel in Gaza. Under the most difficult of circumstances, poets in Gaza have recorded their sense... Continue reading
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