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Lay Down Your Weary Tune : Palace of Westminster (Westminster)
The Renaissance held music in high regard. It played a prominent part in religious, court and civic life. The interchange of ideas in Europe through ever closer economic and political contact brought...
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Beyond the religious divide: Rubens and Mayerne in London St Martin’s Lane...
By Jaap Harskamp / you can find more articles by his hand here Peter Paul Rubens was a painter with a Baroque brush. He was admired by his contemporaries as the creator of dramatically charged and...
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Porn and Pansies – Red Lion Street (London)
During the later nineteenth century middle class society was obsessed with righteousness and ill at ease with modernist art. Whilst the writer depicted the bourgeois as a malicious fool (le père Ubu...
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SCHWITTERS AND JARRY AT THE GABERBOCCHUS PRESS | Randolph Avenue (Maida Vale)
Franciszka Weinles was born on 28 June 1907 in Warsaw, the daughter of the Jewish artist Jakub Weinles. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw in 1931. Stefan Themerson was born on 25...
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European Londoners
After a long silence we are going to revive our blog – recently we published this great book, by Jaap Harskamp: European Londoners. We will publish it on line, in installments. But you can get the...
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Refugees & Migrants: St Paul’s Cross (City of London)
The designations ‘alien’ and ‘stranger’ were used in the early modern period to refer to foreign-born individuals residing in the realm, but with none of the franchises of native Englishmen. The term...
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THE BOOK BLOGGER
In Praise of Print on Paper: Authors, Publishers, Private Presses, Booksellers, Typographers, Bibliophiles, Bibliomaniacs, Librarians & Auctioneers Much has been made in recent years about the...
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Gustave Flaubert & Bibliomania
Black pencil sketch of Gustave Flaubert by his brother Achille, around 1829. Gustave Flaubert began to test his ability as a writer during his school years. On February 12, 1837, he published a...
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The Shibboleth Test : Thames Street (City of London)
A shibboleth is a linguistic identity marker. It is a phrase (or custom) that acts as a test of belonging to a particular social group or class. Its functions as a password and excludes those that do...
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Hack & Inky: Fleet Street (City of London)
William Caxton was the first person to publish a book in English. He realised the intellectual and commercial potentials of the new printing technology while working as a merchant in the Low Countries...
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