Showing posts with label West Yorkshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Yorkshire. Show all posts
30 March 2012

George Galloway and the British Labour Party

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It isn't often that I publish a blog post about politics, but occasionally I feel that there's a need to. Last night, nearly 40 v...
22 June 2011

Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love (2004)

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My Summer of Love is directed by Polish-born Pawel Pawlikowski, and was filmed in and around Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, and Brighouse, all i...
26 December 2010

Jez Lewis's Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (2010) and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England: 'A Drug Town with a Tourist Problem'

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While out of the country this year, I evidently missed an important documentary movie on the plight of one of England's most beautiful s...
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11 December 2010

Clio Barnard's The Arbor, and Andrea Dunbar, from the Buttershaw Estate, Bradford, West Yorkshire

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The Arbor (2010) is a documentary about the life of the playwright Andrea Dunbar, with the state of Thatcherite northern England in the ...
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10 September 2009

J. B. Priestley and Bradford, West Yorkshire

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The writer J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and his imposing statue, with coat tails flying in the wind,...
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20 August 2009

Haworth and the Brontës

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The most famous representation of the Brontë sisters – from left to right Anne (1820–49), Emily (1818–48), and Charlotte (1816–55) – and als...
16 August 2009

Ted Hughes and Mytholmroyd

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Ted Hughes (1930–98) was the British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. He was born in Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, a village just a...