The DiY Free Party Collective

An introduction to the DiY Free Party Collective. Discusses the history of the collective, recent birthday celebrations and the ongoing DJing pursuits of its members. Also examines issues related to free parties in the UK and the impact of anti-rave legislation

Nitrogen ligands in transition metal carbonyl systems

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Approaches to Composition in Visual Music: An Artist’s Reflection on Three Original Pieces

This article discusses my visual music compositional practice and how it fits in context with similar work in this field. It will specifically examine three pieces I created between 2015 and 2017 that fused digital animation techniques with electronic sound. This approach contrasted with my earlier compositions, which featured electroacoustic music and video concrèt

A study of selectivity in the reactions of unsymmetrical trialkylboron compounds

The reaction of disiamylborane with enol acetates derived from an aldehyde bearing two α-hydrogen atoms involves a slow anti-Markownikoff hydroboration followed by rapid elimination and re-hydroboration reactions. Selectivity between reaction of the cis and trans isomers is far smaller than for the corresponding olefinic hydrocarbons. Enol acetates derived from ketones are generally unreactive to disiamylborane. The extent of reaction of propionic acid with a representative series of trialkylboranes depends on the steric resistance of the borane to the initial co-ordination of the acid. The extent of protonolysis decreases with an increase in the total number of alkyl substituents at the α- and β-carbon atoms to boron. With an unsymmetrical trialkylborane the selectivity between the breaking of secondary and primary carbon-to-boron bonds is small. A very large selectivity is found in favour of the removal of a primary—rather than a tertiary—alkyl group. This is thought to be due to steric and not electronic factors. [Continues.

Selling Shame: Feminine Hygiene Advertising and the Boundaries of Permissiveness in 1970s Britain

This article uses a 1972 television advertising campaign for Femfresh vaginal deodorants and the backlash against it to explore how women grappled with the permissive society in their bathrooms and living rooms. It uses women's magazines and the business archives of Femfresh to trace the popularity of vaginal deodorants in the early 1970s and show how advertising for the product played on women's fears of undesirability and shame about their bodies during a period of changing sexual mores. It details how feminist campaigners Women in Media (WiM) constructed a campaign against vaginal deodorants and how adverts for the product became linked in press coverage to trial television adverts for Lil-lets tampons, before analysing complaints made about both product categories collected by the Independent Broadcasting Authority. The contested terrain of feminine hygiene advertising adds nuance to historical understandings of debates around ‘permissiveness’, suggesting that, for some women, frank discussions of bodily functions were not inherently ‘indecent’, but rather had a correct time and place. WiM's campaign and the complaints collected illustrate how women of varying political leanings utilised conceptions of shame to exert limited control over the extent to which feminine bodies were up for public consumption in 1970s Britain

'The people who write to us are the people who don't like us:' Class, Gender and Citizenship in the Survey of Sickness, 1943-1952.

The Second World War and the rise of social medicine in 1940s Britain reframed population health as a social problem in need of state investigation. The resulting Government inquiry, the Survey of Sickness, sampled the whole adult population of England and Wales, engaging a broader and more diverse public in public health research for the first time. Complaints made against the Survey of Sickness reveal a complex set of relationships between different sections of the public and the British state. This article situates complaints about privacy and liberty, wasted resources, and those which questioned the authority of Survey fieldworkers, in the context of wider resistance to post-war controls. By refusing to divorce these complaints from the material circumstances of the people who made them, this article argues that the role of the public in public health was up for negotiation in post-war Britain, for those with the social, economic and political capital to negotiate. The everyday politics of the Survey’s doorstep encounters were heavily influenced by gendered notions of home and citizenship. Exploration of how different sections of the public were constructed by public health and how they responded to that construction develops our knowledge of the hierarchies of expertise under formation, whilst illuminating how class and gender informed contemporary understandings of citizenship in the emerging post-war British state

Lumia and Visual Music: Using Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia factors to inform audiovisual composition

Lumia is an art form that uses only light as a means of artistic expression. Thomas Wilfred detailed the components of lumia in 1947, and these are examined and reapplied to concepts in contemporary fixed-media audiovisual composition