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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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The Crystal Stair: Lorraine Hansberry’s Gifts

12/01/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1950s

In spite of her privileged background, Lorraine Hansberry’s all too brief life was devoted to fighting prejudice and the injustices suffered by many on account of their gender, sexuality, or the colour of their skin.[…]

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Faith, Hope And Charity: The Plays Of Ödön von Horváth

09/12/201419/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

‘It just has so often a yearning within –  but then you go back with broken wings  and life goes on,  as if you’d never been there.’ – Karoline in Kasimir und Karoline by Ödön von Horváth[…]

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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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