Broad Oak Magazine

 “Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American pianist who was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader ...

  In this post JD argues that the threat of AI is overstated - but we wonder whether it may narrow the gap between the blue collar and the w...

 Birmingham used to be called the City of a Thousand Trades. It had a large skilled workforce and a diversified industrial base, with many s...

Skiffle is a DIY, high-energy music genre blending folk, blues, and jazz, originating in 1920s America but surging in 1950s Britain. Popular...

He’s awful but you can’t get rid of him. Yesterday’s PMQs, which took place after some attempt to prorogue Parliament in time to cancel them...

This post began life as a rumination on languages in general but my mind works in mysterious ways and it drifted off into wondering why and ...

Clannad were an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal, by siblings Ciarán, Pól and Máire Uí Bhraonáin and their twin uncles ...