by stuart | Feb 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
As the 203rd anniversary of Ruskin’s birth comes upon us, it seems natural to wonder what Ruskin was really like. We might like to ask ourselves how we would have felt had we met him ourselves? Stuart Eagles explores what some of the Oxford students thought of Ruskin...
by stuart | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
In my first Ruskin Research Blog of 2022, I look back on a set of proposals made a hundred years ago. Inspired by Ruskin, the plan, conceived in Sheffield, appears to have escaped the attention of Ruskin scholars until now. Although the scheme came to nought in the...
by stuart | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
As many of us around the globe find ourselves trying, for a second year running, to meet the challenge of Covid as we prepare for Christmas, let’s look back to a delightful episode in the life of John Ruskin. A RUSKINIAN CHRISTMAS To Dr Kay Walter, Dedicated Teacher,...
by stuart | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Among the earliest Companions of Ruskin’s Guild of St George were two eminent citizens of Scotland’s “granite city”. James Walker will form part of the story that follows, but this blog will focus on his friend, THE RUSKINIAN BUILDER: JOHN MORGAN OF ABERDEEN John...
by stuart | Nov 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have lost a friend, and the world has lost the grandpa of modern Ruskin Studies. Shortly before Jim’s death, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, several of us were fortunate to be given the chance to voice our sense of indebtedness to a man remarkable for his...
by stuart | Oct 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Among the numerous treasures Ruskin acquired for himself and the public in the course of his long life, from books to botanical specimens, shells to stones, and manuscripts to minerals, his horde of coins is one of the least well-known and appreciated of his...
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