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Category: Miscellaneous

Anything that doesn’t fit under any other category

Passing English

My Old Dutch, and all that: a brief look at Victorian slang

Posted 28 January 2019 Radio Days2 CommentsPosted in Miscellaneous

You think of Victorian London, and you think of Cockney rhyming slang. Think of Victorian music-hall and you think of Cockney rhyming slang.  Come to that, think of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, and you think of Cockney rhyming slang […]

The Long Great War 1871-1918

Posted 25 October 201819 February 2020 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1870s, First World War, Great War, Miscellaneous

There! I knew the title would grab your attention!  And you’ll get a further sense, as you read on, of why we at Radio Days decided to roll back our time frame to 1870 as the first year, the Year […]

From Ernie Mayne to Lonnie Donegan

Posted 2 July 20183 November 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous, Music Hall

I was doing a bit of research this evening on a topic completely unrelated in any way to the subject of this blog post, but which involved my looking for the lyrics of a song I’d remembered by music-hall singer […]

Protest with Radio Days!

Posted 16 April 201815 July 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous, Performances, Workshops

Protest Songs. A free 6-week workshop programme open to all who would like to sing with us, no matter what your singing experience. All the music will be taught by ear by our facilitator has wide experience in leading community […]

The Peep o’ Day Boys

Posted 14 June 201615 June 2016 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1820s, Miscellaneous

«There are a great number of boys employed in the various workshops on the island, and the diversions of these young gentlemen have a decided tendency to the boisterous, and lean slightly to the predatory. They are great in the […]

“They don’t write songs like this any more”

Posted 14 June 201614 June 2016 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous

A close contemporary–and friend–of Charles Dickens, caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank (1792–1878) is also generally credited, in collaboration with his brother Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856), with the compilation of the three-volume songbook The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth.  The title […]

Cockaigne to Cyprian via Chaunt, Corinthian and Coster

Posted 13 June 201624 July 2016 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1820s, Miscellaneous

Thanks to a post in the wonderful Jane Austen’s London blog (see reference at the bottom of this page), yes, we now have a copy of Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, Or Bon-ton, […]

Festival of Britain Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park (1951)

Posted 10 June 201624 July 2016 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1950s, Miscellaneous

1951 is a little outside our usual time frame, but as we at Radio Days are now reading and researching around the London pleasure gardens and their saloon theatres out of which, in the early middle years of the 19th […]

Jeremy Taylor

The New Music Hall

Posted 28 August 201511 December 2017 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous, Music Hall, Musical memories

Back down in my home town of Portsmouth earlier this week, I was remembering the folk clubs where I used to hang out in the late 60s and very early 70s.  The thought came to me (and it’s so obvious […]

Music Memory

Posted 2 May 201411 December 2017 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous, Musical memories

María today passed on to me the URL to Music Memory (http://www.musicmemory.org), a US-based project to preserve historical and traditional American and international musical sound recordings for posterity: Music Memory’s mission is to preserve audio recordings for present and future generations. […]

Short break

Posted 6 April 2014 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous

Off to sunny Spain for a well-deserved 10 day break from work.  I’ve meanwhile rebuilt the Radio Days front end (http://radiodays.eu); and will be moving ‘Music Will Win The War’ there when I get back.

Mozilla Open Badges–recognition of achievement

Posted 1 April 20143 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Miscellaneous

A couple of days ago, completely by chance, I discovered Mozilla’s Open Badges programme.  It reminds me a little of the eFolio system I envisaged back in 2000; and is, it seems to me, just the right incentivisation for student […]

Portable Gramophones of The Great War

Posted 28 March 20143 November 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in First World War, Great War, Miscellaneous

Just remembered today, while uploading screenshots of the WWI portable gramophones we used for our song recital and exhibition in December, this great video illustrating”Portable Gramophones of The Great War : Decca, Apollo, Packtrola”.

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