by stuart | Apr 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Celebrating Paul Dawson The strength of any Friends organisation relies heavily on the hard work and dedication of its volunteer committee. The modern-day Friends of Ruskin’s Brantwood was founded 35 years ago. It produced its first newsletter within about six months...
by stuart | Apr 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
In this third and final blog about Ruskin curator, William White, we consider his troubled relationship with Sheffield—its people, places, and most of all, the city council. Never content with the practical reality of living at Meersbrook Hall, he found himself at...
by stuart | Apr 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last time, we looked at William White’s family background and early career. Now our focus turns on his period as curator of the Ruskin Museum. It’s time to re-examine White’s achievements and limitations and to reassess his contribution both to Ruskin’s legacy and...
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...
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