#british classic

[fayegonnaslay]

Marianne Faithfull and her son at the airport, 1969.

#rock n' roll girfriend #marianne faithfull #timeless style #style icons #fashion icons #rockstar gf #rock and roll girlfriend #british classic #ensemble #floppy hat #fur coat #flared jeans #snakeskin boots #tapestry bag #jet set #rock n roll

[britsyankswheels24]

🇬🇧 Step into British automotive history with the iconic Morris Minor! Produced by Morris Motors from 1948 to 1971, this beloved economy car captured hearts worldwide.

💷 Established in 1919, the Morris Motors Limited quickly dominated British car production, thanks to innovative assembly methods and strategic financing. Self-financed and later incorporating public ownership, Morris Motors expanded rapidly through smart acquisitions.

🌟 Designed by Alec Issigonis, the Morris Minor debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in October 1948, showcasing its charm and practicality. Over its impressive 23-year production span, the Morris Minor evolved through three series: the Series MM, Series II, and 1000 series, with more than 1.6 million units manufactured.

🚘 Initially available as a two-door saloon and tourer, the range expanded to include a four-door saloon, estate car, and versatile panel van and pick-up truck variants. Celebrated as the first British car to surpass one million units sold, the Morris Minor embodies quintessential "Englishness" and is revered as a classic example of automotive design.

🪙 Despite the introduction of the Morris Mini in 1959, the Minor continued production, playing a vital role in Britain's post-war recovery. Its enduring legacy lives on, earning it a place among the longest-lived single generation cars in history.

#brits and yanks on wheels #retro cars #transatlantic torque #vehicle #cars #old cars #automobile #brands #companies #Morris Motors #British Automotive #Morris Minor #British Classic #old car #english cars #made in uk #made in england #british cars #british motor corporation #british leyland #retro #retro aesthetic #Englishness #england #mini cooper #Series MM #Series II #morris minor #morris mini #mg

[autumncottageattic]

Indiscreet is a 1958 British romantic comedy film and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.  

#Indiscreet 1958 #british classic #british movies #romantic comedy #christmas comedy #old hollywood #old hollywood movies #old hollywood classic #old hollywod glamour #vintage hollywood #golden age of hollywood #cary grant #Ingrid Bergman #old movies

[yz]

1973 Mini. Ashland Car Show, Sep. 9, 2023.

#mini #british classic #british car #classic car #union jack #1970s #yzshot #ashland car show

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

idc how old you are, when a Julia Donaldson movie is on you watch it.

#julia donaldson #british classic #the gruffalo #room on the broom #zog #movie books #childhood movies #childhood classics #the highway rat #julia donaldson and axel scheffler #and they all have great casts #british christmas #christmas classics

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Athenais by John William Godward (1908)

#john william godward #art #paintings #fine art #1900s #1900s art #neoclassical #neoclassicism #neoclassical art #painting #british art #british artist #athenais #oracle #ancient greece #classic art

[die-rosastrasse]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British, 1828-1882

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863) & Joan of Arc (1882)

#art #painting #classical art #art detail #joan of arc #art history #women in art #women in history #historical art #19th century art #British art #preraphaelites #pre raphaelite brotherhood #pre raphaelite #dante gabriel rossetti #rossetti #jeanne d'arc #christian art #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia art #paintings #victorian art #19th century

[solcattus]

Sheep resting beneath a tree

By John Dawson Watson

#art #painting #fine art #classical art #british painter #british artist #british art #nature #landscape #oil painting #european art

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯 (յգՑԴ) 𝔟𝔢𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 ℭ𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔯

#Hellraiser (1987) #Hellraiser #1987 #80's #80s #photography #british supernatural horror movies #classic horror movies #doug bradley #cenobite #cenobites #ashley lawrence #butterball #the female #pinhead #behind the scene photo #behind the scenes #clive barker

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-British, 1836-1912) Reclining nude

#sir lawrence alma tadema #dutch #british #1800s #reclining nude #art #painting #female portrait #female #portrait #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #oil painting #fine arts #europa #island kingdom #england

[thearchaicsmile]

Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ΥΓΙΑ "Health" ΖΟΗ "Life" ΧΑΡΑ "Joy" ΕΙΡΗΝΗ "Peace" ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ "Happiness" ΕΛΠΙϹ "Hope"

🏛️: © The Trustees of the British Museum

#classics #classical antiquity #ancient greece #classical archaeology #halicarnassus #caria #british museum #ancient greek

[lets-get-lit]

No one is ever holy without suffering.

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Evelyn Waugh #Brideshead Revisited #Fiction #Novel #British Literature

[autumncottageattic]

The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) is a British TV movie based on the 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy. Appearing in the film are Ciarán Hinds as Henchard, Juliet Aubrey as Susan Henchard, Jodhi May as Elizabeth Jane, James Purefoy as Farfrae, and Polly Walker as Lucetta.

Part I

#the mayor of casterbridge #the mayor of casterbridge 2003 #british tv-series #book adaptation #thomas hardy #british classic #Ciarán Hinds #Juliet Aubrey #Jodhi May #James Purefoy #Polly Walker #country living #english countryside #country england #england #thomas hardy book adaptation #period drama #costume drama

[ecoterrorist-katara]

“It’s gross if Katara marries Zuko since he’s her colonizer” she overthrew the last Fire Lord to put Zuko on the throne. If anything the Fire Nation would be worried that he’s Katara’s puppet

#“Katara and Zuko are like Pocahontas and John Smith” yeah if Pocahontas toppled the British Empire and made John Smith run it #Trivia: the episode The Puppetmaster foreshadows the geopolitical conflict stemming from the paranoia that Fire Lord Zuko is a puppet king #Especially since palace servants can confirm that he is a simp for Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe #Tbh installing a ruler in line w your interests is actually a classic colonialism move so she reverse UNO’ed the whole situation #Zutara #pro zutara #anti anti zutara #fire lady katara

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

i know everything changes all the cities and faces

#music #lyrics #sugababes #let’s be clear #this song bangs #about you now #like ??? #2000s uk #2000s music #2007 #Heidi Range #keisha buchanan #Amelle Berrabah #british classic #CAN WE BRING YESTERDAY BACK AROUND CAUSE I KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOU NOW #I WAS DUMB I WAS WRONG I LET YOU DOWN