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...public interest in albums, the industry hasn’t changed its colours. Things do look as though they might be shifting, but this is happening slowly: recent releases from the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Smashing Pumpkins (both known for long albums) suggest that musicians themselves are finally buying into the notion that their fans no longer wish to...

...public advertisement, convned the meeting of yesterday. The requisition for the meeting, signed by some of the principal tenant-farmers of the neighbourhood was as follows: Protection to Agriculture We, the undersigned, tenant farmers of the three hundreds of Newport, in the county of Buckinghamshire, deeply impressed with importance of following the steps of the meeting...

...public displays of jubilation became less commonplace. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Britons began increasingly to view the war in a disillusioned light, and memoirs from this period often portray 11 November 1918 as a distinctly sombre affair. In Good-bye to All That (1929), for example, Robert Graves – who had served as an infantry officer – recalls ‘his...