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The Spirit of Trade Unionism by Bernard Meadows
TUC HQ designed by David Du Roi Aberdeen with Bernard Meadows' sculpture The Spirit of Trade Unionism
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MIRANDA RICHMOND relishes the gloriously liberated art of Roy Oxlade, and traces his method back to the thinking of David Bomberg, his acknowledged teacher
MARTIN HALL examines the way the Roman orator took on different schools of philosophy
ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Eagles Of The Republic, The Balloonists, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
THE BUILDING of the TUC's new headquarters Congress House in Holborn, which opened in 1958, was also seen as an opportunity to promote interest in the arts and architecture.
A design competition for the new building was launched in 1946 — the first of its kind in the post war period — and over 180 projects were submitted, from which David Du Roi Aberdeen’s modernist proposal was selected.
The TUC’s aspiration to promote the arts was amply vindicated when, in 1988, the building was Grade-II listed by Historic England. It’s considered to be one of the most important buildings housing an institution in London and a 1950s’ architectural landmark.
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