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Marion Harry Spielmann

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Marion Harry Spielmann

by Lafayette
half-plate film negative, 9 August 1927
Given by Pinewood Studios via Victoria and Albert Museum, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x41965

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Although aged nearly seventy, Spielmann looks as alert as ever. During the 1920s he was editor of the New Art Library (1913-30); wrote an iconography of the anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius (1925), and published articles on the portraiture of William Shakespeare.

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Current affairs

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acknowledging the full independence of the Irish Free State, led at the time by W.T. Cosgrave, the the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Art and science

The BBC gains its Royal Charter making it a public corporation and a public service broadcaster accountable to its audience. John Reith became the first Director General with the directive to 'inform, educate and entertain.'

International

Stalin expels Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party, giving himself greater control of the party and country by ousting opposition elements.

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