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ALICE GUY-BLACHE: SILENT CINEMA'S FIRST FEMALE DIRECTOR... 17 Aug 2013 | 03:19 pm
Alice Guy-Blache (July 1 1873 - March 24 1968) Today her name is barely known, but Alice Guy-Blache was an astonishingly talented film-maker who influenced the earliest days of the art. Alice Guy be...
A VISIT TO MUSEE DES ARTS FORAINS... 2 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Whilst on her travels this summer, the VV has had the pleasure of visiting the Musee Des Arts-Forains which is situated in the Bercy District of Paris. The museum (which is built on the site of some ...
'HARROGATE IS THE QUEEREST PLACE' ... 1 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm
Harrogate is a beautiful and historic town situated in the West Riding of Yorkshire which owes much of its prosperity to the existence of a drinking well discovered in the 16th century by a certain Wi...
ELIJAH'S MERMAID IN THE GROTTO... 5 Jul 2013 | 03:50 pm
When the VV was writing her novel, Elijah's Mermaid, she became obsessed with the Margate Shell Grotto - a fabulously mysterious subterranean 'temple', the origins of which no-one is quite sure. For....
WILTON'S MUSIC HALL ~ A TALK GIVEN AT THE V&A... 27 Jun 2013 | 09:34 pm
Along with Kate Bailey (seen left in this picture) a curator and producer of exhibitions at the V&A, The VV (otherwise known as Essie Fox) has recently delivered a talk based on Victorian music halls ...
HISTORY OF COCA~COLA - PART TWO, OR THE MISSING INGREDIENT... 13 Jun 2013 | 04:52 pm
When Coca-‐Cola was first produced – when it claimed to have many health-enhancing properties – the recipe was rather different to that which is used today. There was one very special ingredient in ...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COCA-COLA... 6 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm
On these hot summer days, should you be sipping at iced Coca-Cola, you might like to reflect that this seemingly modern beverage actually dates back to the Victorian era - to 1886 to be precise. It a...
CHARLOTTE CORY'S 'VISITORIANS'... 21 May 2013 | 04:11 am
The VV is an enormous fan of the artist and writer Charlotte Cory - particularly her 'carte de visites' made up of portraits of 'Visitorians' which subvert the original nineteenth photographic form by...
MARY SEACOLE: GUEST POST BY HELEN RAPPAPORT... 14 May 2013 | 05:05 pm
In 2005 a mixed-race woman from Jamaica named Mary Seacole, who had died in obscurity in London in 1881, unexpectedly became the subject of widespread media attention in the year of the bi-centenary o...
ELIJAH'S MERMAID ~ A BOOK TRAILER... 13 May 2013 | 07:27 pm
The VV's new novel, Elijah's Mermaid was published in paperback by Orion Books last Thursday. This is the first in what will be a series of short trailers.
