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Hace 2 días · The Queen's Gallery contains a variety of the works of Dutch and Flemish artists, together with a few pictures of the Italian and English schools, collected by King George IV., who purchased the nucleus of the whole from Sir Thomas Baring, and was aided in his selection of others by Sir Charles Long, afterwards Lord Farnborough, whose taste in ...
Hace 5 días · Abstract. The nineteenth-century Church Building Acts centralised control of formal pew-renting in all forthcoming and most newly erected churches that qualified for a Commissioners’ grant. The practice accordingly blossomed—for a time—among both those churches that could legally engage in the practice and those whose officials either did ...
Hace 1 día · When I read Maurice Baring, I feel that, culturally, he is walking on a crystal floor above my head. He is so well read in so many different languages and so well-versed in the full panoramic landscape of Western literature, that I am in awe at the depth and the breadth of cultural experience from which he draws deep draughts of brilliance. Reading him takes hard work, but in Baring’s case ...
Hace 4 días · In the days of the Regency Berkeley Square probably vied with Grosvenor Square in being the most fashionable spot in the West-end, and the neighbourhood of both was constantly spoken of in the last century as the very type of London wealth, taste, hospitality, and luxury. Hence the sarcastic remark of Cawthorne—.
Hace 4 días · The church of ST. SWITHUN in Jervis Road, a cruciform structure in 14th and 15th-century style, built in 1876, is a chapel of ease to St. Peter. The church of HOLY TRINITY is a brick structure in the Romanesque style built in 1869, having a narthex, and a campanile with five bells to the south of the narthex.
Hace 1 día · Wed 17th July, 6pm – 7:15pm. Power To The People. Wed 17th July, 6pm – 7:15pm. Join Danny Sriskandarajah and Dame Julia Unwin on how we can make this the Century of the Citizen. Register Here. Join us at The Conduit for a conversation with Danny Sriskandarajah, a pioneering advocate for citizen action and leading voice in the third sector.
Hace 2 días · And it’s her contradictions that give her story life – her slippery, brilliant difficulty – alongside her connection to a whole blazing world of women’s words. Her epitaph in Westminster Abbey still speaks for her: she was a ‘wise wittie & learned Lady, which her many Bookes do well testifie’.
