Urban Loneliness Could Be Solved By This Radical Old People's Home
Always touch, get rid of the tv, and other sage advice from this impossibly cool couple who have been married for over 30 years.
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Urban Loneliness Could Be Solved By This Radical Old People's Home
A growing number of older people with low and fixed incomes with be unable to afford housing and health care in the next decade, researchers say.
Helen Underwood is an extraordinary woman. Loving, intelligent, giving, independent and gutsy. Her home and bakery are also quite magical. One of the warmest, most relaxing homes that I have had the pleasure of visiting.
A mother says that after her teenage daughter was found unconscious on their porch, the town of Maryville, Missouri, drove them out.
Pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder is considered an iconic American Legend thanks to her series of “Little House” novels that were published between
Manchester has been described as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution and if you lived in Ancoats it was, indeed, pretty shocking. Ancoats was the world’s first industrial suburb – factor…
A new book tells the story of Virginia Woolf and her beloved garden at Monk's House in Sussex
Zak Srakaew, who recently became the second housemate to face the crowd after being evicted from the Big Brother house, has had an interesting life
Dutch Princess Margriet, accompanied by her husband Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven, opened the Centre for Disaster Resilience (CDR) at the...
16-year-old Greta Thunberg has been the inspiration for many of the protests. She has staged weekly protests on the steps of the Swedish Parliament and spoke this week at Davos.
Alice Gregory writes that Dina Litovsky’s photographs capture the Amish and Mennonite vacation town of Pinecraft, in Sarasota, Florida, where from October through April the typically stringent rules of Anabaptist life are somewhat suspended.
Follow along as we complete the renovation of the Young Duchess Room #PBandStonyFord
Now she brings the slow pace of Sicily back home to Chicago.
On the #sea road, west of... by 7-bc on Flickr.
After fleeing her native Germany, a young Jew found companionship and community as the Nazis approached
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (1873 – 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. She was part of the literary Bloomsbury clique, along with Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Lyt…
This photograph is from The old-time Maori (1938), by Mākereti Papakura. She notes that the blonde, fair child and the father, Tonihi (right), are both Urukehu. While some believe that Urukehu (fair-headed, fair-skinned Māori) are the offspring of the fairy people patupaiarehe, Mā...
Sadayakko (貞奴) was her stage name as an actress and dancer, derived from a combination of her real name, Sada Koyama, and her geisha name, Yakko. Born in 1871, the twelfth child of a Samurai family, which had fallen into poverty, she was adopted as the heir to the Hamada okiya (geisha house) in the Yoshi-cho hanamachi (geisha district) of Tokyo at the age of four. In 1893, after a successful career as a geisha, she retired at the age of twenty-two to marry Otojiro Kawakami, a ‘new wave’ actor and theatrical entrepreneur. However, after only a few years of marriage they were in severe financial difficulties when one of his major ventures failed. So, in 1899 the couple leapt at an opportunity to tour the United States of America where, at the age of twenty-eight she re-invented herself as Sadayakko (or Sada Yacco), the first female actor in Japan for two hundred and fifty years. After a tumultuous beginning, Sadayakko eventually found acclaim and they went on to tour Paris and the European capitals where Sadayakko was feted as a star, her performances influencing artistic luminaries of the time such as, Pablo Picasso, Isadora Duncan and Claude Debussy. The couple returned to Japan in August 1902 and went on to champion ‘new wave’ theatre and European-style productions at home, re-interpreting many of the Western classics for a Japanese audience. Her portrayal of Orié (Ophelia) was a triumph, her long black tresses tumbling to her waist, her face like that of a little lost child, wearing a pale water-blue dress trimmed with white lace, flowers in her hair and in her hands, singing snatches of nursery rhymes “rain is falling on his grave…no, not rain, it is tears of blood”.
Vaslav Nijinsky, born 12 March 1889, was a Polish ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. Born in Kiev to Polish parents, Nijinsky grew up in Imperial Russia but considered himself to be Polish. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps.Vaslav, Bronia and StanislavNij
Some were more logical than others.
We were wondering how we might illustrate the late centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood’s extraordinary statement: “My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road” . Then we came upon the work of artist Richard Long, who for decades has made remarkable path works that seem to echo Wood’s words…
September 1938. "Coal miner's wife and three of their children. Company house in Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administratio
Residents of Ramche village in Myagdi district were forced to abandon their homes in the early hours of Sunday, following a massive landslide which made the water levels of the Kali Gandaki River rise a reported 600 ft.
A tiny but growing movement is seeking to build and develop new urban neighbourhoods based on sustainable living and mutually supportive communities. Could this end the isolation associated with the modern era?
The 76-year-old Japanese quilt artist Yoshiko Jinzenji bought a 4,300-square-feet plot of land up Mount Hiei in Kyoto 8 years ago to build a house for herself. “The whole house is an integrated kitchen with a small bathroom. I want… Continue Reading Yoshiko Jinzenji: 76-Year-Old Japanese Quilt Artist Built Her Own 4,300-Square-Feet Kitchen House
You may have seen archivists on television helping people to discover their roots in old records or talking to historians (or detectives!). But you might be wondering what archivists do the rest of…
A small collection of old color photographs of life in Ireland in 1913.
Pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder is considered an iconic American Legend thanks to her series of “Little House” novels that were published between
Image 5 of 16 from gallery of How to Use Color to Accentuate Architectural Designs. Gama House / Studio ArquitectUras. Image © Julia Novoa
The ‘Five Estates’ were a figment of Southwark Council’s imagination. That’s not to say that the five estates – wedged between Peckham High Street and Burgess Park – didn’t exist but rather that t…
There have been countless architectural gems built over centuries that people have had the chance to admire. Everything from authentic houses of worship to spectacular bridges, stations, and entire old towns, among other structures, have been a mesmerizing sight for their eyes at some point throughout history. Unfortunately, quite a few buildings like these weren’t able to stand the test of time and can now only be admired in photographs.
In a world where microwaves, televisions and fast wi-fi connections are deemed basic household necessities, it is hard to believe these images of Glasgow slums are less than 50 years old.
Powerful Photos Of Slum Life And Squalor In Liverpool 1969-71 (Volume 1)
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A head teacher has apologised after a seven-year-old boy was shut in a cupboard-sized room as punishment for bad behaviour.
