Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.
If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
Finished - just before the rain comes in.... Excuse the greyness of the board - in real life it is cream. It's my cheapo Samsung camera. I'll get into my printers and get a digital copy at some point....
Generally I prefer non-fiction and political and military history is my favourite genre. I like books that are very factual and not politically biased by the author. I like survivor memoirs too. Any...
I just read that the musical Hair stopped playing in the West End in 1973, but I am pretty certain I took my brother to see it for his 18th birthday in 1975. Did the musical ever come back to the West...
I have just finished reading "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", a collection of short story pastiches collected and introduced by Richard Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin in 1985. In...
Has anyone read any of the Captain W.H. John's books from the 1950's. Not the Biggles stories but about a boy lost on the Scottish grouse moors. The strange lights he saw through the dank mist being...
Just about there..... Now it's looking rather Bram Stoker-ish, the old house behind, sad that it is empty and rather decaying. Think that the clock was a Victorian folly based off some involvement...
3/4 done for those who like to follow progress of something coming together - getting there, the building to the left to texture and shadow, ditto the wall under the tree and that needs it to 'support...
Rate this story, please. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the best Turkish Van movie of all times, The Flea-Ridden And The Restless. Chichip is kidnapped by The Beaver before he has a...
Over the past few weeks I have been knitting squares, whilst watching television. Originally I had thought about making them into throws or even a bedspread. Has anubody got any better ideas ?
In the early 80s, I was about 13 or 14 and we read a book in our English lesson that I cannot remember the name of and only part of the story. If I remember rightly, a man had something injected into...
My new wee cottage https://imgur.com/eZQyJ6B Nearly there - there are trees behind but the problem is there's a whopping great yew or leylandii behind the right chimney that goes nearly the whole way...
I have to write a page about it. :( Write a short text (no more than 1 page of Word) on whatever object (be it a single object or an activity; art, design, fashion, media or nature) you consider...