Of the first purpose-built skateparks, from the 1970s boom years of the sport’s second wave, very few remain. Preserving them is about more than sporting history.
Diana Cecil, Countess of Elgin, by Cornelius Johnson.
English Heritage
Songs that evoked holidays “just like the ones I used to know” tugged at the heartstrings of a nation receptive to the idea of a nostalgic past rather than a fragile present.
The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
Lakeside Arts
The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
World History Archive/Alamy
Our study of five episodes across its 60 years shows Doctor Who has failed to support the idea that people should be able to advance their own climate interests
Shane MacGowan playing with The Pogues in 2014.
Alamy
The desire to transfer the thrills of surfing on to dry land created the monumental culture of skateboarding, now vividly documented in a new exhibition.
Plato, Seneca and Aristotle in an illustration from a medieval manuscript circa 1325.
The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo