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A Violent Life: The Prophecies of Pier Paolo Pasolini

02/11/201517/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1950s

In the early hours of 2nd November 1975, a mutilated body was discovered on the Lido di Ostia, a district of Rome by the Tyrrhenian Sea. Badly beaten, burnt and crushed, having been repeatedly run over by a[…]

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Star 80: The Stellar Dorothy Stratten

14/08/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1970s

It was around 11 p.m. on the evening of 14th August 1980 and Dr Stephen Cushner was growingly increasingly concerned. The private investigator hired by Paul Snider, the friend with whom he shared an apartment, had[…]

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Heavenly Blues: The Soul of King Curtis

13/08/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1970s

Curtis Montgomery was born in Fort Worth, Texas on 7th February 1934. Along with his sister Josephine, he was adopted by William and Josie Ousley, taking their family name. Experiencing a comfortable and stable childhood in[…]

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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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