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Luke Turner

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Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️‍🌈

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28d

Back from an ace We Have Ways festival, I was blown away by the response to my talk on WWII as sexual revolution. At the last minute I added material about the far right march - I believe telling the diverse truth of those who fought in the war is a powerful tool in combating the far right now (1/4)

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1h

Ha yes, I love that place!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 7h

…at John Swarbrooke Fine Art, free to go, just a fascinating collection of work and a great museum catalogue to go with it too. It fitted in so well with recently reading @damianbarr.bsky.social’s The Two Roberts, great to see somewhat forgotten LGBT+ artists and writers of the mid-c20th held up

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 7h

Denton Welch’s journal of the war years is beautiful on Kent and his distance from the military masculinity of his generation (Welch had serious health issues from a cycling accident) & has poignant description of queer cruising. There’s an exhibition on of his paintings on in Fitzrovia this month…

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed, get to a certain age and you’re screwed - he was obviously quite far gone by 43 and that series by the looks of things

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah the late stuff is really bleak, and that final interview with Keith Allen - broadcast the night he died - is rancid. Felt like he was dragged into oi oi booze n bants lad culture

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please! Could you even be tempted down to Lewes for Bonfire on the 5th?

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Well, nine years - December 2016!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favourites we’ve done, just glorious - and has become only more right in the decade since you wrote it

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Sword on Floyd is magnificent: “The mainstream representation of British cooking in recent years has often been reduced to a self-satisfied flag waving goonery – one that favours a daintily imagined fantasy over gutsy reality. What would Keith Floyd have made of it? And why ask?”

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favourite piece I’ve written for your fine site was on Floyd: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...

thequietus.com

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

So many glorious bits - just watched Perigord, with the the omelette lady, and the miserable chef they have to do a v/o for

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

He’s particularly funny in this one isn’t he? “Ah here’s me again, dressed as a custard tart”, and the love of and respect for the country and the food and those who cook it is so utterly genuine

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody hell, he was only 43 in this series?!

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! So well filmed too, the involvement of the whole crew. “Tell them about the soup?” Eh says Floyd; “tell them what’s in the soup!”

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

I am pretty good in the kitchen but am shite at the presentation - too clumsy. Floyd tells me this is ok.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Floyd On France is on iPlayer! Obviously has been on YouTube for ages but here he is in all his higher definition glory, being told off by old ladies, pissed, plating abysmally. It was this that made me love cooking

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Floyd on France - 7. A Farewell to France

In the final programme of the series, Floyd retraces his steps in all the regions in which he has filmed, as he celebrates French cuisine one last time. (1987)

www.bbc.co.uk

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Not yours, everyone! There’s tonnes of research on it - The Sound Of Being Human by Jude Rogers is excellent on how our relationship w music changes as we age. I can see it with Radiohead & myself - I loved The Bends /OKC as I was a maudlin teenager, most after that bored the crap out of me

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - I think often people were excited by artists because they discovered them during their teenage years when you experience music in a different way due to eg hormones (this is actual science!) and then decide the artist has gone bad, when actually the listener has just aged

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha yes! I always think this about mid-century posh houses like this. I wonder why. Clockwork Orange?

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that’s just daft, you need to know what things are!

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve not been there yet but was thinking of it. I suppose it’s slightly a matter of taste - I tend to love crackers museums that are just heaving with random artefacts, especially local museums. They give such a sense of the human chaos of everywhere

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

And the dinosaur bit is shite! We went for that as the toddler is quite into dinosaurs but he was too scared of the T-Rex and we had to leave.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity! Doesn’t help that it is t-shirt weather in mid-October and has barely rained for weeks down here

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

I worry the forthcoming changes at the Science Museum are going to remove all the *stuff*. Objects are timeless! European museums are much better at not changing for fads & the sake of it. Also the horror of South Ken - strong argument for a tourist tax to fund skint London local authorities

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

O the error of going to the Natural History Museum on a weekend. Stunning building but the Ikea of museums - you’re pushed around in a vortex, surrounded by thin tat, it’s impossible to learn anything at all. I worked doing admin at NHM 18 yrs ago before starting tQ - it was dated & tired even then.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers! I also have chronic rhinitis which somewhat compounds it all