Harry Pearson

The fop had reached his cologne-scented apogee in the Georgian era, and those hoping to cut a dash in London society needed the right kind of accessories — amongst other things: ‘A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, a ring, two watches, and a snuff-box gilt.’

Bicycle Racing and Modern Art

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Since their golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries, animated models of humans and animals have delighted and unnerved audiences in equal measure. Here, Harry Pearson traces the colourful ancestry of the automaton
Paris, 1740. The duck sat on a podium. Its body was made of gold-plated copper, its intestines of rubber tubing; its life force was the sort of weights that power a grandfather clock. At the command of its creator, Jacques de Vaucanson, the duck rose, flapped its wings and, stretc...

The Esk Valley line transports pilgrims to a Yorkshire town made famous by its crop of giant gooseberries

Travelling through Alaska in March.

Controverisal Italian artists Piero Manzoni made many of his best known works in a shirt factory in rural Denmark.

When I tell my father the Malaysian city of Ipoh has lately become a hipster destination, praised for its street food, graffiti art and Edwardian baroque architecture, he snorts derisively....
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The Anglo-Scottish border is a place of wild beauty, with a rich, poetic and bloody history.

The locomotive roared through European art for more than a century, inspiring English Romantics, French Impressionists, Italian Futurists and Belgian Surrealists. Harry Pearson tracks its epic journey
In the autumn of 1825, a wheezing, panting, cast-iron contraption designed by George and Robert Stephenson chugged out of the County Durham town of Shildon in the north of England. Named Locomotion No 1, the steam engine was hauling 20 coal wagons and an experimental passenger coach containing c...

The Teesside chemical giant, the development of man-made fibre and its influence on the swinging sixties

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Harry Pearson on his favourite cricketing canines, including Rodney Marsh as you’ve never known him before.