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Volupté Issue 1: Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle
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Learning to Fly: The Royal Flying Corps and the Development of Air Power
Get PDFThe history of Britain’s air services in the First World War has long been coloured by a fascination with fighter ‘aces’. Although scholarship over the last 20 years has challenged this perception, the work of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force is still often seen through the lens of air fighting. While the struggle for control of the air was of great importance, it arose from the need to ensure freedom of action for those supporting troops on the ground. This article examines how the support roles – reconnaissance, artillery observation and attack – developed within the RFC, and their interaction with the contest for air superiority. It highlights the growing importance of aircraft to British operations between 1914-1918, how air power was integrated into the land battle and the uneven way lessons were learned and implemented as the RFC and RAF developed into a highly effective force
Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History
Get PDFThis article presents the idea that the official Turkish military histories of the First World War are underutilized by western historians in assessing the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. In popular culture much of what many people believe to be true about the Arab Revolt comes from the work of Colonel T . E. Lawrence (famously known as Lawrence of Arabia). However, for historians, a larger issue arises from the fact the English language historiography of the Arab Revolt is derived almost entirely from non-Turkish and non-Arabic sources. Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History corrects that by examining the modern Turkish off icial histories. This article notes that the Ottoman and T urkish narrative asserts the Arab Revolt had a very limited effect on the war in the Middle East and that the Ottoman centre of gravity lay in the retention of Medina rather than in defeating the northern Arab armies associated with Lawrence. This article also identifies and compares the extant published Turkish official military histories with their British counterparts and informs the reader about some of the kinds of valuable and hitherto unknown information which may be found in the Turkish works
Out of the Darkness: A Community led Art Psychotherapy Response to the Grenfell Tower Fire
Get PDF“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all – Emily Dickinson No.254 (1861) This short report is an attempt to bring into light the art therapy response following the Grenfell Tower fire on the 14th June 2017. This terrible tragedy was the worst fire in London’s history with a reported 72 deaths (one of whom died 6 months after the fire having never left hospital), 18 of the victims were children. The fire began on the 4th floor of the tower and spread ferociously through the building, aided by the exterior cladding that has now been identified as well below the necessary fire safety standards. There remains an on-going, complex inquiry into the causes and events that led to the fire, with major failings being uncovered in the building as well as the fire access to the block. While this stream of seemingly new evidence emerges to the outrage of the public, the community have known about these failings for years. The Grenfell Action Group[1] actively complaining about the shoddy workmanship and the unsafe refurbishment since 2012. They were not only ignored but also bullied and threatened with eviction by authorities. Ten months after the tragedy this disregard continues as many families remain in hotels and temporary accommodation as the painful fight for Justice continues.[1] https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/
‘Inarticulate cries’: Arthur Symons and the Primitivist Modernity of Flamenco
Get PDFIn his essay ‘Moorish Secrets in Spain’ (1899), the British poet and critic Arthur Symons (1865-1945) described Spanish flamenco music as the expression of primal creative forces, which were nonetheless connected to modernity: ‘it is music before rhythm, music which comes down to us untouched by the invention of the modern scale, from an antiquity out of which plain-chant is a first step towards modern harmony.’ Symons revealed flamenco as an art form caught in transition, faltering between Romantic spirit, Orientalist eroticism, and an emerging Modernist primitivism
Michel Winock, Décadence fin de siècle, L’Esprit de la cité (Paris: Gallimard, 2017), 288 pp.
Get PDFIn his latest publication, Michel Winock, a prolific historian specialising in intellectual history and the history of the French Republic and whose writings have been recognized by many prestigious prizes (Prix Médicis1997 and Prix Goncourt de la Biographie2010), focuses on a network of writers, journalists, pamphleteers, and activists in the last decades of nineteenth-century France (1870s-1890s).
Symons and Print Culture: Journalist, Critic, Book Maker
Get PDFMy intent here is to explore the range and ingenuity of Arthur Symons’s participation in print culture, and to probe how he managed his bread and butter work as a journalist, critic, and book maker. My focus is his article ‘The Painting of the Nineteenth Century’, in its differing functions and forms over a four-year period (1903-1906), as a periodical book review and a chapter on painting that appeared in Studies in Seven Arts, a book comprised of articles from the press. What initially drew me to this article was its evidence of Symons’s sustained support for Simeon Solomon, a queer British artist from a London-based family of Jewish painters, in the decade that followed the Wilde trials, and among the inhibitions they fostered. Nearly a generation younger than Solomon, Symons (1865-1945) was born just as Solomon (1840-1905) began his career. Solomon appears in both the 1903 and 1906 versions of Symons’s review, and in between a newspaper review of an exhibition of Solomon’s work in 1905/1906. Symons enters late into Solomon’s story in these pieces, towards the end of the artist’s life
Textual Secrecy: Arthur Machen and ‘The True Literature of Occultism’
Get PDFArthur Machen (1863-1947) read The Book of NicholasFlamelas a child and later in his life spent several years cataloguing books on occult matters for the antiquarian bookseller George Redway. The result of his work was an annotated catalogue, The Literature of Occultism and Archaeology(1885), that referenced works on alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and animal magnetism (among others). The Welsh writer was more than well versed in the occult and esoteric philosophies that are often referred to and sometimes discussed in his works of fiction. In an article entitled ‘The Cult of the Secret’ (1926), Machen underlines that humanity has always been drawn to secret societies and mysterious rites, a powerful attraction he personally experienced.
‘Say it with Music’: Combat, Courage and Identity in the Songs of the RFC/RAF, 1914-1918
Get PDFThis article examines the role of songs and singing in maintaining morale and squadron identity in the Royal Flying Corps/RAF on the Western Front during the First World War. Using song books, published memoirs and officers’ personal papers from the Royal Air Force Museum and Imperial War Museum, the development and dissemination of the songs will be discussed in the context of RFC/RAF squadron culture. This analysis will show that music and songs had several key functions for men serving with the RFC/RAF; they helped to dissipate fear and anxiety, to maintain airmen’s morale and enhance the squadron’s esprit de corps
