Welcome
Dr Stuart Eagles is an independent scholar specializing in the work and legacy of the Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin. This is the home of the Ruskin Research Blog.
Read Stuart’s tribute to the late Clive Wilmer (1945-2025).
NEW BOOK (August 2024)
Ruskin’s Faithful Stewards: Henry and Emily Swan (RRP £20, 168pp, pbk, 20 B&W ills, read more here).
Winner of the Ruskin Society Book Prize.
Professor Stephen Wildman, retired Director of the Ruskin Library and Research Centre, University of Lancaster, has commented that the book
“gives a remarkably rounded account of a figure previously known only to a few, drawing on an astonishing range of contemporary source material”,
to explore “in the most lucid way and in beautiful prose”, the lives of the Swans in “their historical, social and political context” .
NEW BOOK (February 2024)
Medicine and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Berkshire: The Commonplace Book of William Savory of Brightwalton and Newbury (Berkshire Record Society, vol. 30, 2024)
LATEST BLOG UPDATE:
(21 April 2025) Celebrating Paul Dawson, now 25 years into editing the journal of the Friends of Ruskin’s Brantwood
(March-April 2025) A re-examination of the life and career of William White, Curator of the Ruskin Museum in Meersbrook (in three parts): Part I, Part II, Part III
(3 October 2024) A New Blog Index
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Dr Michael Leach, reviewing Medicine and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Berkshire (2024) in The Local Historian (August 2024), commends the “detailed analysis” in an introduction which is “an excellent example of how to make really good use of all the available source material”. He concludes that the book “provides a fascinating account of both eighteenth-century life, and the work of a medical practitioner who lived on the cusp between superstition and witchraft, and scientific medicine. It is thoroughly annotated and referenced, and has a comprehensive index.”