STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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The City laid bare
JOHN GREEN is impressed by a photography book that candidly exposes the nerve centre of British capitalism
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The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
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London’s Square Mile — a secret city
Photographs by Polly Braden, text by David Kynaston
(Hoxton Mini Press, 2019 £17.95)
In his Introduction to this collection of photographs by Polly Braden, the historian David Kynaston says laconically: “The modern City has become a self-perpetuating, absurdly over-rewarded island, too much cut off from the rest of Britain.”
The photographer Braden has spent years observing and photographing this alien environment and bastion of high finance with its denizens.
Her often understated snapshots capture the men and women going about their business in this jungle of steel, concrete and glass. It is in this tiny, exclusive enclave that the economic fate of our country is largely determined.
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