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Category: 1990s

Sacrifice: The Sacred Voice of Belkis Ayón

11/09/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1990s

On 12th September 1999, the Cuban art world was left reeling reeling by the news that one of its brightest stars had fatally shot herself at the age of 32. No note was found, and she had[…]

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Inside Out: The Secret Games Of Catya Sassoon

03/09/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1980s

Catya Sassoon was born in New York on 3rd September 1968. As the daughter of the world-famous hairdresser, Vidal Sassoon and his actress wife Beverly Adams, she was thrust into the limelight from an early age,[…]

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Diamond Geezer: George Cole’s Lobster

06/08/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1940s

Born in Tooting on 22nd April 2015 and adopted at ten days old, George Cole spent his childhood in Morden, his earliest memory being his mother’s ire when she discovered he had sold a pair of[…]

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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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