Jack Watkins
I've been a freelance writer on the arts and heritage, based in London and South East England for about ten years. My great passions are Music - especially Soul, R& B and Rockabilly - and Cinema, with favourite subjects being Film Noir, Alfred Hitchcock, and film comedy from the Marx Brothers to Will Ferrell. I am keen on doing as much as posible to elevate the profile of the best of British cinema, both current and past.
I have a degree in Medieval History from the University of London. I am fascinated by all periods of history, but have a special penchant for the so-called Dark Ages and the Normans.
I also write about nature for the British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph and you can see examples of my features on birds, plants and landscapes at www.telegraph.co.uk
Latest Articles
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Visit Westminster Cathedral, London Cathedral
Britain's premier Roman-Catholic Cathedral is one of London's most exotic buildings. With a soaring campanile, it's a blast of the Mediterranean in the middle of London.
Mar 21, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Dusty Springfield, Long John Baldry - Brit Soul
Blue-Eyed Soul is shorthand for white artists singing "black," which in the 1960s, before the later blurring of musical boundaries, really meant something.
Mar 20, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Brenda Holloway - Biography of Motown vocalist
Brenda Holloway was only signed to Berry Gordy's Motown label for four years. Strikingly beautiful, as well as a distinctive singer, she still looks and sounds great
Mar 17, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Richard Jefferies Museum
Richard Jefferies wrote several nature classics, many based on his observations of countryside around his childhood home at Coate Farm, Swindon, now a museum.
Mar 14, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Chris Farlowe Biography - Tribute to The Voice
A great vocalist of the 1960s British R&B movement, his Mick Jagger-produced recordings for the Immediate label are now classics, yet Farlowe is still underrated.
Mar 10, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Dana Andrews Biography - Night of The Demon Star
Dana Andrews was a handsome Hollywood leading man of 1940s films such as Laura. He had a uniquely melancholic style, but his later career was blighted by alchoholism
Mar 7, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Visit Avila Spain – Best Places to See
Avila is the highest city in Spain, one of the finest surviving examples of a completely walled medieval town in Europe. It is only 90 minutes by train from Madrid.
Jan 16, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Eddie Cochran Biography 50th Anniversary Tribute
Eddie Cochran's songs included Summertime Blues, C'Mon Everbody and Something Else. But his death in a 1960 road accident transformed him into a Rockabilly legend.
Jan 13, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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Visit Rouen France - Best things to See
Rouen makes an ideal day trip from Paris, one hour away. Full of Medieval buildings, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake here, and Claude Monet painted its cathedral
Jan 11, 2010
- Jack Watkins
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