GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Paradise Street: The Lost Art of Playing Outside
Evocative images of a time when children were free to play in the streets
Balham, London, circa 1961, Paul Kaye
© The Paul Kaye Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
THE images in Paradise Street — the fourth book in Hoxton Mini Press’s Vintage Britain series — span the years from the 1930s through to the late 1970s and are the work of 10 leading photographers.
Balham, London, circa 1961, Paul Kaye © The Paul Kaye Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
They portray children playing in streets from London to Manchester and Belfast to Middlesbrough and, while they are all clearly working class and their games are invariably played out against the backdrop of tenements and terraced slums, they appear to be almost without exception happy and enjoying life to the full — a seeming contradiction you would think — and with hardly an adult to be seen.
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