IT’S just over 75 years since the Second World War ended. But folk living in the occupied countries who struggled through the horrors of those days still remember the debt of gratitude they owed to the Allied forces who liberated them. Marleen Jennissen wasn’t born till 1954 but she learned all about the relentless oppression families such as hers had to endure for five long years. After the war her father Joep tried to arrange the excavation of an RAF Short Stirling bomber which had crashed on the night of September 10, 1942, in marshland close to Lilbosh Abbey, a community of monks in the southern part of the Netherlands. Joep lived in the area.
The Great British Art Tour: Pulp fiction - wallpaper with a story to tell
A form of social media … Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper (detail) c1853. Photograph: Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith and Company; purchased with Art Fund support
A form of social media … Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper (detail) c1853. Photograph: Heywood, Higginbottom, Smith and Company; purchased with Art Fund support
As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections reaches its final week. Today’s pick: Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper in Manchester’s Whitworth
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Wed 12 May 2021 01.00 EDT
Two white men in a plantation house negotiate the sale of a small boy as his mother overhears; later she flees with him across an icy river. These are the first two of six vignettes on a wallpaper inspired by the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The full sequence concentrates on Eliza and