History Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer

Fighting Fascism & Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’

Jan — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:31:40 +0000

The story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades. Read my article for the Byline Times here. And for more on the ‘Brick Lane Project’, here’s an article about Barbara Beese and the Mangrove Nine https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/29/the-woman-with-the-afro-the-story-of-barbara-beese/

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Cotton to Gold

Jan — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:53:40 +0000

March 2015 From time to time, the charitable foundation, the Bulldog Trust, opens the charming Two Temple Place for excellent exhibitions. This one is no exception. ‘Cotton to Gold’ brings together some of the extraordinary collections of wealthy philanthropists who made their fortunes in the Industrial North West. The collections were generously loaned by the…

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Sir John Soane Museum

Jan — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 13:23:22 +0000

A neo-classical architect married an heiress, bought a house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, then another, and another. He knocked them all through and filled every inch of space with his extensive collection of architectural fragments, sculptures and paintings. He lost three of his sons, fell out with the last one, and left the lot to…

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What about the anti-war effort?

Jan — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:14:56 +0000

East London Federation of Suffragettes Didn’t know that it’s 100 years since the start of the First World War? Unlikely. You can’t move for TV and radio programmes dedicated to it, local talks, ceremonies, commemorations, exhibitions… No, this centenary is something that we are all very much aware of. But what of the anti-war movement?…

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Rome

Jan — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:51:41 +0000

Cinecittà & a cinephile’s introduction to Rome A lifetime spent in the Rome wouldn’t be enough to explore its art, architecture and cultural history. In a weekend, all you can hope for is to get a flavour of what this rich city has to offer. You’ll want to return again, and again… Even for those…

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Ferrara

Jan — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:01:58 +0000

The exquisite UNESCO World Heritage site, once home to the d’Este family, is rich with Renaissance art and architecture. Ferrara is also very easy to walk/cycle around, and there’s plenty more to capture the imagination: ‘In Italy in the 16th century, food was considered as much an art form as music or theatre’. So writes…

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Two Temple Place

Jan — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:23:01 +0000

Passersby might be intrigued by the gilded weather vane of Columbus’s caravel, the Santa Maria, that sits atop this beautiful building – I was one of them – but opportunities to discover more about it are limited as, for most of the year, Two Temple Place is closed to the public. So it’s worth keeping…

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Krakow

Jan — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:42:59 +0000

The German army marched into Kraków on 6 September 1939. By November, all Jews over the age of 12 were commanded to wear armbands. This was the beginning of the occupier's segregation of the population.

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Oh! What A Lovely War

Jan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:16:36 +0000

The Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War exhibition is on at London’s Imperial War Museum until 1 January 2013. Once it finishes, the entire museum closes for six months while it is redeveloped. In the summer of 2014 – 90 years after the beginning of the First World War – the museum will reveal a new…

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Pompeii

Jan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:46:51 +0000

I’ve written about this unique archaeological site for Travel Weekly and Time Out magazine, as well as for the Time Out Naples guide (that I also edited). ‘Ash was already falling, hotter and thicker as the ships drew near, followed by bits of pumice and blackened stones, charred and cracked by flames;: then suddenly they were…

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