Manchester and slavery
Manchester’s wealth was founded on the cotton industry and dependent on slave-grown cotton. But the city was also at the centre of the anti-slavery movement.
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Video-making on a budget
Film-making can be an expensive hobby. Especially if you start to buy professional lights, backgrounds and other accessories.
Print journalists learn to use video
The Guardian looks at how print journalists are beginning to use video and asks whether web video could mean a new ‘golden age’ for newspapers.
Free books
Project Gutenberg has 20,000 free out-of-copyright books online. Page By Page Books is also worth a visit.
Sunday nights on BBC2
For me, the last three Sunday nights on BBC2 have been must-see television. The latest three part documentary by Adam Curtis: The Trap. Followed by Kombat Opera Presents.
Posterior Vitreous Detachment
A week ago yesterday I awoke to find I had a large black ‘floater’ in my right eye. It was like a daddy-long-legs at a window. As I moved my eye, it leapt around — sometimes in the opposite direction. It was disturbing… But I wear contact lenses and I thought maybe I had a … Posterior Vitreous Detachment
Iraq war has cost every person in Britain £88
The illegal invasion and war in Iraq has cost every person in Britain (all sixty million of us) £88 each. ‘The figures were released as MPs protested about the plight of Britain’s NHS hospitals’: The Independent.
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