by stuart | Mar 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last year, the Ruskin Research Blog published Ruskin’s Faithful Stewards, Stuart Eagles’s prize-winning biography of Henry and Emily Swan, the curators of Ruskin’s museum in Walkley, Sheffield. In the next few blog entries, our attention turns to the Swans’ successor,...
by stuart | Mar 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Remembering Clive Wilmer Clive Wilmer (10 February 1945—13 March 2025) Poet, Cambridge academic, critic, Master of Ruskin’s Guild of St George (2009—2019), and my friend I was both shocked and saddened to learn on Friday morning that my friend, Clive Wilmer, had died...
by stuart | Oct 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the course of the summer, the Ruskin Research Blog, now four years old and boasting 40 entries, published Ruskin’s Faithful Stewards. It is the first book-length biography of Henry Swan (1825-1889) and his wife Emily, née Connell (1835-1909). Here are 27 reasons...
by stuart | Aug 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
IaIn his latest Ruskin Research Blog, Stuart Eagles reveals the story of the keen Ruskin collector, progressive and philanthropist, Thomas Thornton, whose family woollen business helped spark a revolution that changed the world … RUSKIN & REVOLUTION: THE CASE OF...
by stuart | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the previous Ruskin Research Blog Stuart Eagles explored how Ruskin helped to inspire the Garden City Movement. In this second and final part, he focuses on the Ruskinian credentials of the men tasked with planning and designing Letchworth, Raymond Unwin and Barry...
Recent Comments