Creative Practice
The British Library is wildly confusing: a glass tower with shelves inside, inside the shelves books, inside the books words, millions, billions of words, spilling out onto the floor, where hopefully someone’s brain will pick them up. Arrows point to the lockers, to coffee, the cloakroom, the newsroom. What is the difference between Humanities 1…
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The Nichol was a dark place, narrower, grimier, than anywhere else in London in the early twentieth century. Sarah Wise describes it at a place with shades of grey, rubbish, monotony of blackened buildings, broken furniture, smoke, ragged women, dead dogs, few beds. It was known as “the Empire of Hunger.” Its people struggled week…
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There are countless books I have ashamedly failed to finish. Whether that be at fault of the book, its middle perhaps uninspired, or at fault of my own, and my revolving interests, or at fault of time, and its incomprehensible ability to feel the opposite of plentiful. However, Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago, is a novel…
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Rodinsky’s Room is a novel about a woman’s search for a man who disappeared in the late 1960’s, leaving nothing but an unfinished cup of tea and an unkempt room behind him. The attic room of the synagogue on 19 Princelet Street garnered attention from writers, journalists, and photographers, but no one began intensive research…
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Orchid in the Office 
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