Category Archives: Politics

Photos of The Steampunk Opium Wars

The first photos in from The Steampunk Opium Wars staged Thursday 16th February 2012 to almost 300 people at the National Maritime Museum. Photographs by Jan Jefferies taken on my Lumix TZ20 camera except where stated. More photographs of the … Continue reading

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LIVE STREAM The Steampunk Opium Wars

Get ready from 6.30pm on Thursday 16th February because we have a live stream of the show from the National Maritime Museum. Show kicks off at 6.45pm. It’ll be just like you were there. Click on these links: New MLEC2flashios … Continue reading

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Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza at Greenwich National Maritime Museum

Britain’s craving for chinoiserie in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in a trade imbalance that threatened to empty the treasury. To pay for the tea, silks, spices and porcelain we liked so much, the East India Company sold enormous … Continue reading

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Anna May Wong Must Die pix

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Satire, sex and politics. Photos of the final show of this run at the New Diorama Theatre, Saturday 12th November 2011. Legendary culture writer Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies rocked the house with live music. Still on-script … Continue reading

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Big Society: a conversation at the Foundling Museum

A little bit of politics, laydees an’ gennelmen with “Big Society: on a conversation at the Foundling Museum”. Recorded at Café Art during the St Ives Arts Festival September 2011. Written in June 2011. St Ives Festival 2011: Intro and … Continue reading

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Looting and the UK Riots: as above, so below

Who could forget the big crisps heist of the summer of 2011? With Poundland in front of us and our comrades behind us, we held the world and special-offer broken biscuits in the palms of our hands, along with a … Continue reading

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