Kynaston

Throughout, Kynaston is alive to the peculiar tactile features — the heavy coins, heavy shoes, heavy suitcases, heavy tweed coats, heavy leather footballs’’ — that make this recent past a foreign country.

Waste Not, Want Everything 2008

Throughout, Kynaston is alive to the peculiar tactile features — the heavy coins, heavy shoes, heavy suitcases, heavy tweed coats, heavy leather footballs’’ — that make this recent past a foreign country.

Waste Not, Want Everything 2008

Historians of the recent past, such as Kynaston and Sandbrook, are right to emphasise popular attitudes.

New Statesman Vernon Bogdanor 2009

Mr. Edward Kynaston Teddy—Former cross-dressing star; Wit; well-loved actor

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

Edward Kynaston, whom Peyps called “the loveliest lady that I ever saw in my life,” retired from the stage in 1699 after a successful career playing both male and female roles.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

It's not as ecumenical as "Information," mounted in 1970 by Kynaston McShine at MoMA, a show where several pieces here had prominent exposure.

Snapshot of a Movement Richard B. Woodward 2012

"Their run came to a rather unlikely end when they held eventual champions The New Saints to a goalless draw at Plas Kynaston," writes Seiriol Hughes.

Did King Olav V of Norway really take a trip to Selhurst Park? 2011

Outrageous, bright, and brimming with wit, beauty, and grace, she charms all who meet her, quickly befriending poet laureate John Dryden; playwright Aphra Behn; famed libertine Johnny, Earl of Rochester; and the last of the cross-dressing actors, Edward Kynaston.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

Davies and Kynaston also share villains: the urban planners and bureaucrats who, blinded by a grandiose technocratic ideology, refused to heed what one of them dismissed as “the inarticulate yearnings of the average working-class housewife” and so razed century-old slums, tore apart neighborhoods, and moved their occupants out of the city centers to stack them up in Brutalist tower blocks.

Intimate History 2010

Theophilus (Theo) Bird and Edward (Teddy) Kynaston: before the war, both trained in the old style to play the female parts, although Theo, with his great drifts of snowy hair, must be at least sixty and so trained a half century ago.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011