Libby Purves
Theatre Critic and Blogger at Theatrecat
Journalist at The Times
12 forgotten novels,journalism, formerly Times theatre critic - now https://t.co/EAMYaTlinA. R4 presenter & loyalist 40+yrs, thrown out 2017
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2 weeks ago |
the-tls.co.uk | Libby Purves
This is a conversational sort of history, and it took a good few pages to win me over. But it did. Its eminent author – a fellow of the Royal Historical Society who ran the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London – kicks off with a startlingly confessional account of adoring, in her twenties, someone called Sofia. It’s the kind of unequal relationship most of us mentally reframe in order to edit out our weaknesses.
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2 weeks ago |
the-tls.co.uk | Fred D’Aguiar |Tom Evans |Libby Purves |Eimear McBride
Born in 1905 in a village west of Kingston, Jamaica, Una Marson had an idyllic childhood in some respects. The youngest of six, a favourite of her father, the local parson, and with an Irish antecedent in her maternal grandfather, Marson sang her way through church and shone at school. But the strictures of colourism, thanks to the vestiges of plantation slavery in the British colony, meant that the dark-skinned Una struggled among her light-skinned peers at her elite school.
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3 weeks ago |
yachtingmonthly.com | Libby Purves
Drying out my be a term used to describe a boat on a tidal mooring, but it's also something one often needs to do to the body after sailing in the UK TAGS: Libby PurvesTop Story Shuddering our way through the latest cold front, accompanied by dank spring drizzle, it seems fitting to talk of the glory of dryness. A lot of our sailing, down the decades, has been preoccupied with dehumidification, both intimately personal and saloon-related.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Libby Purves
Actors without big star power put up with quite a lot. In a precarious profession they rarely rock the boat: what the director wants, the director generally gets. So it took the hawkish Free Speech Union (FSU) to report the National Theatre of Scotland to the equalities watchdog over the latest burden inflicted on the profession.
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4 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Libby Purves
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Who is doing joined up thinking about how schools. universities, therapy culture fosters narrative of withdrawal from life for anxious and depressed young people? When I was teaching at uni, one third of students had mental health diagnosis - a large proportion anxiety/depression
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