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Jack is in the cafe of Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. He is reading Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, volume 2, originally published in German 1927-1931, first translated into English 1930. Jack says Friedell is a key cultural thinker of the interwar period and that there is now renewed interest in this three-volume book.
Behind Jack is a mural-sized photo of the weaving floor of the studio upstairs. The building is an ingenious repurposing of what was formerly a pool.
Thank you for being part of my project, and my apologies for interrupting you. For more readers, see www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
Anyone interested in some insight into the past, current and future? Young Tarot card readers on the Central Park Mall, quite photogenic in there period costumes, were offering a map of mental and spiritual pathways by the luck of the draw.
Down here at Canterbury Heritage we're always pleased to be able to identify reader's old New Zealand photographs, but we'll have to admit that maritime history continues to be an equal interest. Accordingly we were delighted to see a mid-Victorian photograph, of great rarity and of potentially significant interest to international maritme historians, in the collection of a renowned Christchurch collector of early photography.
In a northerly aspect of the anchorage off Portland Harbour, Dorset, at some time between 1872 and 1874, the photograph depicts three Royal Navy warships at anchor.
In the foreground is the cadet training ship HMS Boscawen, launched as HMS Trafalgar in 1841. Stationed at Portland from 1872 until 1906, she was broken up in the following year.
The middle ship is the HMS Achilles, launched in 1863, she served as the guardship at Portland from 1868 until 1874. In her time the five-masted ironclad was the largest sailing vessel in the Royal Navy and mounted the greatest area of canvas ever spread by a warship of any nationality. Renamed HMS Hibernia, she became a base ship in 1902, subsequently known as HMS Egmont, then HMS Egremont, her last change of name came in 1919 as HMS Pembroke. A modified design of the extant HMS Warrior, her 63 year career ended with demolition in 1925.
In the distance is HMS Minotaur, commissioned in 1868 as the Flagship for the Channel Squadron at Portsmouth. In 1893 Minotaur was re-named as HMS Boscawen II and used as the cadet training ship at Portland until 1905. Subsequently renamed HMS Ganges, she was broken up 1922
The date ascribed to the photograph is attributed as a consequence of the stationing of the Boscawen at Portland from 1872 and the removal of two of Achilles's masts in 1875. An adjacent photograph of Portland Harbour in the same photograph album is annotated with the date of August, 1874.
Is there such a thing as environment more inspiring for reading than others? If so the old city of Krakow might be one, the textures of all the stone buildings are oozing with history. This one is taken at the small square Maly Rynek ("Little Market") that is "hidden" just behind the main city square.
I've had a hard time choosing the best version for this one, I decided to go for the "classic" monochrome even if the desaturated color version is the one I like the most at them moment. I save both and perhaps I change it around later?
Raghnailt started reading again she used to do it a lot but gave it up when she felt down, Eddie convinced her to pick it up again. She's been reading a lot of Shakespeare <3
btw look at her shoes! look at her shoes!!! it's her saddle shoes!!! <3 <3 <3
Another taken during my night movements in the underground International railway station. At least this guy had a book to read.