Dr Stuart Eagles

7. Jen Shepherd

by | Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorized

For more than 20 years, Jen Shepherd was a key member of the team at the Ruskin Library and Research Centre at Lancaster University. Her recent death represents a sad loss to all who knew her. THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS Whenever I arrived at the Ruskin Library, Jen was...

6. Ruskin’s Coachman

by | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

As many of us prepare for Christmas in some of the strangest circumstances we can remember, let’s look to Ruskin’s wider circle for cheering memories Christmas Day 1928, the Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported, would mark the 50th wedding anniversaries of “Mr and Mrs...

5. The Ruskinian Solicitor

by | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized

I promised in my last blog, which was about the Ruskin Exhibition held in Manchester in 1904, to remedy the absence in biographical dictionaries of an entry for J. Ernest Phythian. Phythian was one of Manchester’s foremost Ruskinians and deserves to be remembered for...

4. The Ruskin Exhibition, Manchester (1904)

by | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized

In the spring of 1904, a major Ruskin Exhibition was mounted at the Manchester City Art Gallery. It presented drawings and paintings by Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, pictures of architecture and copies by Ruskin’s pupils, as well as portraits and...

2. A Swan without a Leda

by | Oct 22, 2020 | Uncategorized

My forthcoming study of John Ruskin’s Sheffield will present the most complete biography yet published of Henry Swan (1825-1889) , the curator of St George’s Museum, Walkley. This blog post answers an important question: did Henry Swan help in the 1850s to decorate...