Bournemouth’s Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum to host first major retrospective of acclaimed painter and lithographer, Albert de Belleroche.
An exhibition of works by acclaimed artist and leading figure of lithograph portrait, Albert de Belleroche.
Featuring over 60 paintings and lithographs, spanning Belleroche’s career.
A collaboration between the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and...
Steve McQueen’s excellent new film Blitz explores, amongst other things, how the population of the East End had to force their way into the London Underground stations for protection. This was because, as he details in a recent interview, Churchill had forbidden their use by Londoners – due to...
In the summer of 1972, I was driving a girlfriend out to the Moonfleet Hotel for a drink, and it was just getting dark when we got to the trees just before the bridge, and she screamed out, "Stop!" She said we were about to run over a woman...
This week is International Refugee Week, and during the week, we are shining a light on some of the refugees that have settled in Dorset.
Today we hear from Maryna, a refugee from Ukraine. When the war broke out in Ukraine in February 2022, Maryna, her husband and their two children were...
Despite Richard Drax and his apologists not getting it the land behind 'The Great Wall of Dorset' is only in Drax's ownership because of what many Barbadians call the 'Black Death'. White rich people dotted around the planet living off the proceeds of exploitation and the murder of slaves.
The...
The Dorset History Centre houses thousands of photos from bygone eras. From over-dressed Victorian summers, hard-working Edwardian summers, chilly fetes from the fifties to fun at the fair and sporting lasses from the twenties our repositories hold them all.
For one day only, on 17 August, there will be a...
The concept of internal misogyny is extremely prominent in today’s society; however, recently, the aftereffects of the barbie movie being released have shown how damaging it can really be
A lot of people forget that internal misogyny is present and keep it to the back of their minds until an...
Let Us begin with Joshua Maponga making his case for King Leopold of Belgium as the most evil man to have ever lived.
It is a remarkable reality. Conveniently forgotten. pic.twitter.com/56I7zv6ocy— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) October 19, 2024
Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the epitome of evil in modern history,...
(note this review contains spoilers)
There has been a lot of carping by reviewers about alleged historical inaccuracies in Ridley Scott's latest film Napoleon with one writer, Simon Scarrow, claiming it was ‘the worst film’ he had seen in the last few years and that it had left him ‘gasping...
Ten new community art interventions are being proposed for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s (BCP's) coastline.
Financed through the UK Government’s Levelling-Up Fund (LUF), BCP Council hopes the installations will help boost civic pride and attract residents and visitors to overlooked areas of the seafront.
The Council will also look to engage...