With the 200th anniversary of The Peterloo Massacre in 2019 and the release of the new Mike Leigh film on November 9th, a look at its connections and aftermath via the county of Dorset would seem most fitting. The Clubmen movements of 1645 in Dorset were a direct reaction against Parliamentarian...
I have a confession to make: I’ve never voted in an election.
(Gulp!)
I now realise I’ve left myself wide open to criticism from all and sundry: ‘Then you don’t have a right to criticise anything. People died so that you can have a vote. It’s an insult to their memory...
The Westbourne Tea Party organised by Bournemouth Coastal BID and Westbourne Business Association drew hundreds of people to WestbourneArcade for a day of royal fun.
Hundreds of Westbourne residents and visitors from the wider conurbation of Bournemouth attended the Coastal Businesses Improvement District (BID) and the Westbourne Business Association’s Summer...
Boxing, particularly bare-knuckle boxing, had been popular amongst the Gypsy fraternity for generations. Therefore it is not surprising that many such exponents of the sport came from the local busy Kinson Parish Gypsy population of Poole/Bournemouth from the 1920s to the 1960s.
In those early days on Saturday nights Gypsies...
One of the Samaritans volunteers from the Bournemouth and District branch will be donning their posh frock, for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’ 70th Birthday bash on Tuesday 22 May 2018.
Janet will bring many years of volunteering experience to the palace party, which celebrates the work of the...
In the deeply incisive and insightful words of the esteemed messrs. Kenneth Gamble and Leon A. Huff: “I love music, any kind of music…”
Of course I don’t love all music, obviously – that would be ridiculous. And I don’t love it all equally – I have my personal preferences...
To underscore this essential Disney law, narrative resolution in each film defends and reinforces the status quo. Nothing is resolved until the preferred social order is in place. No one lives happily ever after until the chosen one rules... In contrast, villains–who almost exclusively exhibit antisocial behavior and violence–suffer...
It is said that the warmer channel temperatures brought Percy Florence Shelley to Bournemouth. In consideration of his wife's health and his ailing mother he had bought a plot of land that was to become Boscombe Manor. By the time the manor was completed though his mother Mary was...
Definitive best and worst lists are so impossibly selective, and rely on a reviewer seeing literally everything in order to be credible. This is not that. Instead, in order to celebrate the New Year, Hollywood Hegemony's Jack Brindelli presents the 3 best and worst films he saw but never reviewed last...
Does rock ‘n’ roll have a conscience? Should it? Does it even matter? While there are many who like to keep their politics and their music separate, rock ‘n’ roll has spawned dozens of artists who used the medium of music to promote and advance their political views and...
