Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...
Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...
I REALLY wanted to buy a beautifully hand painted pair of Coalport porcelain ice pails, c1802. An orange pheasant with golden wings perched on branches blooming with red and gold flowers. Then see panels of deep cobalt blue containing swirlin...
Anne Lister (1791-1840) was born in Halifax Yorks and spent her childhood in her parents’ home. And she was a regular visitor to her aunt’s grand family estate Shibden Hall. Portrait of Anne Lister in her customary dark clothes,by Joshua Hor...
Albert Bert Spencer (1886-) was born in Balmain Sydney, younger son of Henrik Henry Spencer, a Danish labourer and his wife Alice. The father died when Bert was a toddler, meaning the 3 siblings were raised by a struggling mother. Hill of Co...
1922 was the birth year of literary modernism!TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Vivien EliotThe Guardian The World Broke in Two: the Year That Changed Literature (Deckle Edge, 2017) by Bill Goldstein wanted to cover the intellectual achie...
Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studioOak Park Chicago, 1889From 1886, 20-year old Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) trained at the Chicago offices of the famous firm of Adler & Sullivan, Louis Sullivan being Wright’s mentor. In 1893 Wright left the...