by stuart | Jul 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Power of Influence: J. H. Chamberlain & Ruskin’s Seven Lamps Stuart Eagles To Clive Wilmer [Download as a PDF] John Henry Chamberlain (1831-1883) (pictured above) was one of Birmingham’s most eminent architects. A leading Liberal, a talented lecturer, and a...
by stuart | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
“An excess of modesty and bashfulness”: the first meeting of Ruskin’s Guild Stuart Eagles To Annie Creswick Dawson, Guild Companion and Dear Friend [Read as a PDF] No detailed account of the Guild’s inaugural general meeting has ever been published. Until now. For...
by stuart | May 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
(Dedicated to Anthony Harris and Cedric Quayle.) Milestone birthdays will be celebrated this summer by several veteran contributors to the work of Ruskin’s Guild of St George, an organisation which is itself celebrating its sesquicentenary this year. Two such...
by stuart | May 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Descriptions abound of Ruskin as a lecturer at Oxford. As a student Michael Sadler (1861—1943) greatly admired Ruskin, and he became his life-long disciple. Sadler, who was a historian, dedicated his career to education, and served for many years as a university...
by stuart | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Edith Hope Scott was one of Ruskin’s most devoted and active disciples. St George’s Day in the year in which we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Guild of St George seems an appropriate moment to remember her. Scott was one of the people who banded together in...
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