by stuart | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Few people can rival Robert Hewison in the variety of his achievements. As a historian of post-war Britain he has interpreted, analysed and explained the cultural life of a nation to which he has made his own extraordinary contribution. As a broadcaster on the BBC, as...
by stuart | Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
War has been raging in Europe for nearly a year. In 1871, when Ruskin began writing Fors Clavigera (1871-84), his monthly letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, and founded the Guild of St George, he was in part motivated by a powerful reaction against...
by stuart | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Though renowned and sometimes mocked for his pronounced moral earnestness, John Ruskin nonetheless loved the theatre, pantomime, the zoo and—as we consider a more festive Ruskin— THE CIRCUS (for grown-up children everywhere). “People mutht be amuthed, Thquire”,...
by stuart | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Of all Ruskin’s many experiments—whether in gardening or weaving, publishing or estate management—one of the least well-documented is the tea-shop he set up in Marylebone, West London in the mid-1870s. Stuart Eagles invites you to sit back with your favourite brew as...
by stuart | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
RUSKIN & LORD RONALD GIOWER AGAIN Following the publication of blog #29 on “Ruskin and Lord Ronald Gower”, I was delighted to hear from Bonhams in New York that they are auctioning a letter from Ruskin to Gower that provides further evidence of the nature and...
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