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Le Temps Des Fleurs: Remembering Dalida

03/05/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1950s

Yolanda Christina Gigliotti was born into an Italian family in Cairo on 17th January 1933. As the first violinist at the Cairo Opera House, her father Pietro Gigliotti instilled her and her two brothers with a appreciation[…]

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On The Sentimental Side: Al Bowlly And His Crooners Choir

17/04/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

Albert Allick ‘Al’ Bowlly was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique on 7th January 1898 (some sources claim 1899 and others 1890), to a Greek father and Lebanese mother who met on a ship sailing to Australia,[…]

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Sunsets: The Strings Of Manolis Hiotis

21/03/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1950s

Born on 21st March 1921 (some sources claim 1920) in Thessaloniki, a port on the Thermaikos Gulf of the Aegean Sea and Greece’s second largest city, the speed at which he mastered the guitar and violin[…]

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This site takes its name from Virginia Woolf's 1939 memoir. As an historian of the 20th Century, and of the Bloomsbury Group, I hope it not only says what happened, but also, ‘what the person was like to whom it happened.’

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