#david kynaston

[torchlitinthedesert]

Not Beatles, but shoutout to rock’n’roll girlies in the north of England in 1958:

…the 14-year-old Lorna Stockton (later Sage) went with a friend to Stockport:

Gail and I spent all our time and pocket money dashing from one jukebox to another to make sure that Pat Boone’s chaste hit ‘Love Letters in the Sand’ would be drowned out all over the windswept town by ‘All Shook Up’. The one was sweetness and light, the other inarticulate, insidious bump-and-grind… All the Elvises groaned and whimpered at once, and the waves rushed in and obliterated Pat Boone. And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.

From David Kynaston, Modernity Britain 1957-62.

[dzelonis]

David Kynaston - City of London: 1815-2000

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Izdevniecība: Chatto & Windus Manas pārdomas Finanšu pasaules vēsture Londonā nav tā vēstures grāmata, kuru būtu iedomājies lasām šī gada sākumā. Daļēji tas attiecināms arī, ka grāmatas nosaukumu gluži nevarētu pārtulkot latviski kā ‘’Londonas pilsēta’’, lai nerastos pārpratumi. Pirms tam jau zināju, ka Londonā eksistē pilsēta pilsētā, bet ne, ka finanšu rajons…

[letterboxd-loggd]

Smart Alec (1951) John Guillermin

June 25th 2023

[adrianicsea]

the time that glenn howerton was in a gay period-piece play about crossdressing

so awhile back i was poking around glenn howerton's wikipedia looking for movies and such that i might have missed, and i noticed it had a small theatrical section listed. this was never something i'd given much thought in the past, but on this particular occasion i was so hard-up for new Glontent that i decided to see what i could find about the three plays listed there, because i'd never seen anyone else have much luck with that and i love a good internet scavenger hunt. walk with me.

compleat female stage beauty caught my eye right away-- the title of the play itself is interesting, and i happened to know already that the most famous real-life duke of buckingham was the lover of king james. so of course i went delving...

and what should i find but the entire playscript for compleat female stage beauty, For Free, on archive dot org? anyone on earth can rent it and read it for an hour at a time, or for 14 days if you want to really take your time with it. i have to assume that this is NOT common knowledge among sunny fans (or anyone else), as the archive upload only has 99 views at the time of making this post.

to give a VERY succinct summary of what the play is about-- in the 1660s, during the english restoration, women were allowed to act professionally onstage for the first time in english history. this caused problems for the male actors who had previously made their careers playing female characters, such as edward kynaston, around whom the play centers. outside of his acting career, kynaston is a gay man, and he's in a romantic entanglement with george villiars, the duke of buckingham (NOT the same duke of buckingham who was fucking king james-- that was this villiars' dad. we love gay fathers and their gay sons!) kynaston struggles to find his place in a changing social landscape where it seems as though his talents are no longer needed or wanted.

before getting into the script proper, the book has some information about notable early productions of the play. this is great because it pins down a lot of details about glenn's involvement in the show that wikipedia left unanswered, but there's also an unexpected sunny crossover here-- in an even EARLIER production, the lead role was played by david hornsby!

(i also learned over the course of my deep dive on this that glenn's costar, lead actor brandon demery, was a fellow member of glenn's graduating juilliard group!)

things don't end well for kynaston and villiars, but still, the onstage relationship between the two is both electrifying and heartbreaking as it changes over the course of the show.

now, this WOULD be where i would include cast pictures or footage or any kind of photos of glenn in this show... but if any such material exists, it's not publicly available. i went so far as to email the publicity and outreach coordinator for the theater that hosted glenn's production of this show to ask if they had any archived materials, but she told me that they didn't.

but this production took place in october of 2000, meaning it was pre-that 80s show, meaning we can all sit and think about how a glenn that looked like This was acting in a gay period piece about crossdressing and gender roles and the mystery of human sexuality. dudes rock.

a bit of a disappointing note to end on, i know, but i really wanted to talk about this play and share it with people!! it's a super interesting and overlooked part of glenn's early career, but also i think the script is fascinating and very well-written in its own right. i definitely encourage yall to check it out on the internet archive if you're interested-- again, it's literally free!

[joker1315]

All the actors you can find on this blog

Use the following link and insert the tag you want to see:

a: adam croasdell - aiden turner - aimee garcia - alan rickman - alan tudyk - alex kingston - alison sudol - allen leech - amanda abbington - amir wilson - amita suman - anatol yusef - andreas pietschmann - andrew garfield - andrew scott - aneurin barnard - annette badland  - anthony hopkins - anthony mackie - antony starr - anya chalotra - august wittgenstein

b: barry bostwick - bellamy young - ben barnes - ben mckenzie - benedict cumberbatch - benicio del toro - bernard cribbins - bill nighy - billie piper - billy boyd - brendan gleeson - brent spiner - brianna hildebrand

c: calahan skogman - cameron monaghan - candice bergen - carla gugino - caroline dhavernas - cate blanchett - catherine e coulson - catherine tate - catinca untaru - chadwick boseman - charlie chaplin - chris addison - chris cooper - chris evans - chris hemsworth - chris malcom - chris pine - christian bale - christian clemenson - christian tramitz - christiane paul - christina ricci - christopher eccleston - christopher lee - christopher lloyd - cillian murphy - colin firth - colin odonoghue - colin woodell - corey johnson - cory michael smith - craig parker

d: dakota fanning - daniel brühl - daniel craig - daniel radcliffe - daniel sträβer - danielle galligan- david bowie - david dastmalchian - david duchovny - david morrissey - david tennant - david thewlis - david wenham - deforest kelley - diego luna - dietrich hollinderbäumer - dominic cooper - dominic monaghan - dominic west

e: eddie karanja - elijah wood - elizabeth olsen - elton john - emilie de ravin - emily beecham - emma thompson - emma watson - ethan hawke - eve myles - ewan mcgregor

f: ferdinand kingsley - frankie adams - freddy carter - freema agyeman

g: gareth david lloyd - gary oldman - geoffrey rush - george eads - george takei - georgia tennant - georgina haig - gillian anderson - ginnifer goodwin - gwendoline christie - gwyneth paltrow

h: hadley fraser - harrison ford - harvey keitel - hayley atwell - heath ledger - helen mccrory - helena bonham carter - henry cavill - hugh dancy - hugh jackman - hugh laurie - hugh skinner - hugo weaving

i: ian mckellen - imelda staunton - inbar lavi

j: jack davenport - jack wolfe - jackie earle haley - jake gyllenhaal - james mcavoy - james spader - jamie lee curtis - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - javier bardem - jayne brook - jeff goldblum - jenna coleman - jennifer connelly - jennifer lawrence - jennifer morrison - jensen ackles - jeremy renner - jim beaver - jodie foster - joel rush - joey batey - john barrowman - john boyega - john hurt - john larroquette - john rhys davies - john simm - johnny depp - jonathan frakes - jose pimentao - joseph gilgun - josh dallas - jude law - julia stiles - julianne moore - julie covington - juliette binoche

k: kacey rohl - karen fukuhara - karen gillan - karl urban - kat dennings - kate capshaw - kathryn hahn - keira knightley - kevin alejandro - kit young - krysten ritter - kyle maclachlan - kyra sedgwick

l: lana parrilla - lara pulver - lars mikkelsen - laura allen - laura dern - laura fraser - lauren german - laurence fishburne - laurie kynaston - laz alonso - lee arenberg - lee pace - leonard nimoy - lesley ann brandt - lesley sharp - lindsay duncan - lisa vicari - liv tyler - lizzy caplan - louise hofmann - lucas till - luke evans

m: mads mikkelsen - maggie gyllenhaal - majel barrett - margo martindale - marion cotillard - mark gatiss - mark pellegrino - mark ruffalo - mark sheppard - mark strong - mark waschke - martin freeman - matt smith - max schimmelpfenning - may calamawy - meat loaf - megan boone - mel gibson - melinda clarke - melissanthi mahut - meret becker - mia wasikowska - michael benyaer - michael bully herbig - michael cumpsty - michael des barres - michael fassbender - michael gambon - michael raymond james - michael sheen - michelle gomez - mikael persbrandt - miranda otto - misha collins

n: natalie portman - ncuti gatwa - neil patrick harris - nell campbell - nichelle nichols - nicolas cage - nicole kidman

o: olivia colman - orlando bloom - oscar isaac - owen wilson

p: paddy ohagan - patricia quinn - patrick stewart - paul bettany - paul chahidi - paul lux - paul mescal - pedro pascal - penelope wilton - peter capaldi - peter falk - peter hinwood - philip glenister - phoebe waller bridge - pierce brosnan - pip torrens

q: qorianka kilcher - quentin tarantino

r: rachael harris - rachel weisz - rafi gavron - ralph fiennes - rayner bourton - reece shearsmith - rene russo - rhona mitra - richard armitage - richard obrien - rob benedict - robbie kay - robert carlyle - robert downey jr - robin lord taylor - robin williams - ronald guttman - rose mciver - rupert graves - rupert grint - russell crowe - ruth negga - ryan gosling - ryan reynolds

s: sam neill - samantha smith - samuel l jackson - scarlett estevez - scarlett johansson - sean astin - sean bean - sebastian stan - sherilyn fenn - shohreh aghdashloo - sky du mont - sophia di martino - stanley tucci - stellan skarsgard - steven strait - susan sarandon

t: tan caglar - taron egerton - tilda swinton - tim curry - tim roth - toby maguire - tom conti - tom ellis - tom felton - tom hiddleston - tom holland - tom payne - tom sturridge - tomer capone - tony curran - tony curtis - tricia helfer - troy garity

u: una stubbs

v: val kilmer - vanesu samunyai - viggo mortensen - vivienne acheampong - vladimir burlakov

w: walter koenig - william shatner

y: yasmin finney

z: zachary quinto

[paineperdu]

February 11th - Virtuous Bankers, Anne Murphy

Virtuous Bankers is a work of institutional history, but in a way that is distinct from the way I'd normally use that term - it is not just history viewed through the lenses of institutions, (compare Marc Levinson's The Box, which I would classify as history viewed through the lens of institutional actors) though it is that, but it is primarily a work of history about a specific institution. In this way, anyone hoping to discern immediately what the Bank of England was doing - the Bank of England as an indicator of larger historical trends - may be disappointed, and should instead perhaps turn to the opening sections (at least for the period in question) of David Kynaston's Till Time's Last Sand for this information as it pertains to the time period. Rather, Murphy is writing about what the institution was like, on a truly day to day level. The long arc of history is obscured by the quotidian focus. Of course, this is not a failing, rather the intended focus of the book. But certainly those looking for anything particularly earth-shattering or view-reorienting may be disappointed. Having this book as a basis may, however, allow better understanding of the Bank's function should it come up as an indicator in other sources.

The reader of this book would certainly gain more from it given three things, things that I happen to lack. Firstly, a better comparative overview of public finance and credit in other nations, in particular other European nations, at the time. In Till Time's last Sand, David Kynaston refers to interactions between the Bank of England and the Bank of France regarding the BoE augmenting its low bullion supplies, for instance. But what made English or British finance distinct would be enlightening when it came to examining the precise impacts that day-to-day operations and scope of services may have had on that. Second, a better understanding than mine of the precise nature and operation of financial mechanisms, particular the financial mechanisms of the 18th century, would be extremely beneficial. I have a passing understanding of the nature of bills of exchange but there are certainly sections where if I wanted a stronger understanding I would have to focus harder than I perhaps had been, reread a couple times, or seek out a more focused secondary source - on the functions of bills and banknotes, the process of drawing, the notion of "ready money" and the nature of regular transactions in the period. Thirdly, an understanding of the context that public debt and finance played in Britain's empire would be useful for situating the knowledge from this book in a meaningful framework. A source like HV Bowen's The Business of Empire, cited in the book, would be perhaps useful, among others.

The appendices are excellent and very comprehensive, including all the reports of the first commission and an entire list of the bank's impressive staff roster, as well as their wages. Something striking noted in the book is that the wage of 50 pounds a year had not increased in the century since the foundation of the bank, and was hardly enough to live in London except on a very tight budget. There are many things in this book that one could potentially speculate about in general terms - the involvement of clerks in stock trading and the resulting conflict of interest, or the underdevelopment of security technology at the time, or the difficulty of dealing with large amounts of paper records, but having the actual references for this information is invaluable, and many things - like the particular managerial culture of the bank and similar institutions - is fascinating granular knowledge that we should take care to research rather than our tendency to assume from thin air.

The final interesting factor is the difficulty that I have in immediately connecting this to any kind of theoretical economic approach, either modern or contemporary to the period. Certainly we know from Ricardo that the economic and financial policy of the state was influenced by economic theory, but it's not immediately clear to me what relationship the state had from a theoretical policy standpoint to the act of borrowing and public debt, or how that impacted the bank as attitudes may have shifted. (Again, this might be more of Kynaston's longer-view wheelhouse.) The connection between economic theory and specific infrastructure can wear a bit thin at times - compare again Levinson, mentioned above, on the dependency of the notions of free trade and comparative advantage on the actual physical capacities of international trade - the reference point here being the limitations of clerks and accountants working on paper records to the business of stock trading and the issuing of debt. I'd like to be able, in future, to link this granular analysis of the functioning of the bank to state economic policy and theory, as well as to a broader quote unquote 'materialist' analysis of state and capitalist structure at the time. None of this is obvious from the book, but I don't doubt it could be achieved with a little work.

[wahwealth]

The Stars Look Down (1940) | Michael Redgrave | Margaret Lockwood |

he Stars Look Down movie is a British film released in 1940.  This classic film is based on A. J. Cronin's novel was written in 1935 with the same title.  The film is about injustices in a mining town in North East England. Coal miners,  who are led by Robert "Bob" Fenwick, vote to go on strike.  The miners are refusing to work in a particular section of the mine.  The reason is due to the great danger of flooding. Tensions rise as the strikers go hungry. Cast Michael Redgrave as David "Davey" Fenwick Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley Emlyn Williams as Joe Gowlan Nancy Price as Martha Fenwick Allan Jeayes as Richard Barras Edward Rigby as Robert "Bob" Fenwick Linden Travers as Mrs. Laura Millington Cecil Parker as Stanley Millington Milton Rosmer as Harry Nugent, MP George Carney as Slogger Gowlan Ivor Barnard as Wept Olga Lindo as Mrs. Sunley Desmond Tester as Hughie Fenwick David Markham as Arthur Barras Aubrey Mallalieu as Hudspeth Kynaston Reeves as Strother Clive Baxter as Pat Reedy James Harcourt as Will Frederick Burtwell as Union Official Dorothy Hamilton as Mrs. Reedy Frank Atkinson as Miner David Horne as Mr. Wilkins Edmund Willard as Mr. Ramage Ben Williams as Harry Brace Scott Harrold as Schoolmaster Strother (as Scott Harold) You are invited to join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded, https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

[carolyn-b]

A Social History of The Archers

[delightfullyatomicfest]

Sounds interesting but maybe hard work

[qudachuk]

A government clinging on, railways in crisis… This latest volume in the social historian’s mighty history of postwar Britain may sound horribly familiar – but at least there was the BeatlesOn Saturday afternoon, 27 October 1963, a 19-year-old Juliet...

[bogusfilth]

i guess reading plan for the coming weeks is. finish up judith shklar’s ordinary vices as well as this paper on bank supervision. keep working through phenomenology of perception a chapter or half a chapter at a time, start ulysses. but then i have too much i want to read and it’s overwhelming which ironically makes it very difficult for me to tackle it in the only way possible which is incrementally and carefully. then longer term once phenom. is done i’ll probably go crawling back to capital v1 (and i should probably just not allow myself to read any marxists before v1 is done) and once ulysses is done i’ll take another running go at middlemarch. and we can fill in around the cracks of those with less Project-y books and my crawling pace through david kynaston’s book on the bank of england. if i can actually get reading consistently then it’ll somewhat quash the gnawing feeling that i need to be reading everything ever written and i can just actually enjoy what i’m reading and take it a little easier.

[torchlitinthedesert]

“Joy Davis was on a family holiday in Cornwall, teaming up with a girl cousin of the same age, when they realised to their consternation that the new Beatles single [She Loves You] was about to come out:

“Fortunately a catering assistant we had befriended in the hotel was a fellow fan and told us where we could find a record shop - 30 miles away. We pestered my uncle to take us, but he was somewhat reluctant, sensibly pointing out that we would be unable to play the disc until we got home… He failed to appreciate that for two teenage girls consumed by Beatlemania, it didn’t matter that we couldn’t play it. To keep the peace, he agreed to take us to the shop, on the proviso that we behaved impeccably for the rest of the holiday. We agreed, of course.

“So, on the release day, we bought our copies, and when we returned to the hotel clutching our precious vinyl, we found a note slipped under our door, from our fellow fan, to say she had the evening off, and if we went to her room in the staff annexe, she would let us play the disc on her Dansette [record player]. What followed was a great evening listening to the Fab Four, eating cakes she had got from the hotel’s afternoon tea service selection and quaffing West Country cider…”

From David Kynaston, A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65

[dzelonis]

Mēneša grāmata #100

David Kynaston – City of London. 1815-2000 Manu viedokli un iespaidus varat izlasīt šeit Ar gana lielu nokavēšanos mana nominācija mēnēša Maija mēnēša top izlasītās grāmatas statusam.

[dear-indies]

Hello Cat 🐱 + 🐭!! Hope you’re both having a nice week! May I please ask for some alternate Anton Yelchin faceclaims based on the vibes he gave when he played Chekov in the Star Trek films, please? Preferably aged between 21-30, but I don’t mind if a little bit older. Thank you so much in advance <3 :)

Aaron Taylor Johnson (1990) English, Ashkenazi Jewish, smaller amount of Irish.

Logan Lerman (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish.

David Corenswet (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Irish.

Ronen Rubinstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - is bisexual.

Dylan Arnold (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / English.

Troye Sivan (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Scottish, Afrikaner [Dutch, French Huguenot, German] - is gay!

Jonah Hauer-King (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish / English.

Ryan Potter (1995) Japanese / Swedish, English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish - is bisexual.

Aaron Altaras (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Austin Abrams (1996) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian.

Fred Hechinger (1999) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Lucas Jade Zumann (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly German.

Anton also had cystic fibrosis:

Travis Flores (1991) - is gay.

Alex Stobbs (1990) - also has significant hearing loss due to medications involved in his cystic fibrosis treatment.

Gunnar Esiason (?)

General alts:

Toby Sebastian (1992)

Giorgio Cantarini (1992)

Dylan Llewellyn (1992)

Sebastian De Souza (1993) English, Konkani Goan Indian, Irish.

Sean Delaney (1994)

Cem Yigit Uzümoglu (1994) Turkish.

Hunter Doohan (1994) - is gay.

Laurie Kynaston (1994)

Edvin Endre (1994)

Odiseas Georgiadis (1996) Greek / Ghanaian.

Josh Heuston (1996) Anglo-Sri Lankan.

Chance Perdomo (1996) Afro- Dominican and Guatemalan.

Paul Mescal (1996)

Nolan Gould (1998)

Omar Rudberg (1998) Venezuelan and Swedish.

Ali Hadji-Heshmati (1999) Unspecified.

Here you go!

[power-chords]

I don't know if this is helpful or unhelpful, because I don't have film and documentary examples on hand, only books and a podcast. But if you're interested in a holistic look at the postwar context in which British "classic rock" developed — because its appropriation + export + eventual rise to pop cultural dominance was a direct consequence of specific historical developments in communications technology and the emergence of a teenage consumer class — I can certainly recommend:

Modernity Britain by David Kynaston (massive and exhaustive and a great reference tome just to have lying around)

Rock Music by Peter Wicke

Roots, Radicals, and Rockers by Billy Bragg

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs by Andrew Hickey

dear classic rock tumblr i need an incredible favor. please tell me your favorite movies that are at all adjacent to your favorite bands. like, anything from having been influential on a band (ie blackboard jungle and the who) or just being made by the band (head, rock n roll high school) or starring a musician (performance) or that a musician worked on (the virgin soldiers and ray davies) or even anything along the lines of almost famous/blinded by the light/pirate radio. documentaries are ok but only if they’re especially notorious (the doors 1991) or notable or a departure from the usual talking head or biopic formula (the kids are alright). i’m thinking of stuff that’s like essential to the 20th century rock and roll subcultural experience but not necessarily limited to being made at that exact same time.

i’m working on a letterboxd list and i’ll post the link later.

[zmkccommonplace]

A man for whom idealism & self-interest were increasingly indistinguishable.

David Kynaston’s description in On the Cusp of Councillor T. Dan Smith, leader of Newcastle City Council, early 1960s