Author: Lawrence

I teach Film Studies at King's College London. I'm gonna be posting mainly about film-going in Britain in the early C20th, drawing on my own research activities. Previously I've written on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exeter Press, 2009), The Great War and Popular British Cinema in the 1920s (Palgrave, 2015) and Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small (Wallflower, 2017)

An Edwardian Meme Goes Viral

Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band 1910

Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band 1910 (from the galleries of the International Bandsmans Enquire Within) For reasons which may or may not become clear, I have recently become interested in the Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band. Here they are in 1910 in the rather fetching double breasted uniforms of the Tramways Undertaking. We tend to think of … Continue reading An Edwardian Meme Goes Viral →