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JANE AUSTEN: A FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Helena Horton, writing in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th January 2019, announced that, “ Lost photographs of Jane Austen’s nieces and nephews have been discovered in an old photo album.”A lady called...
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JANE AUSTEN WENT TO SEE EDMUND KEAN PERFORM.
Henrietta StreetWednesday March 2nd1814 to Cassandra.“Places are secured at Drury Lane for Saturday but so great is the rage for seeing Kean that only 3rd and 4th rows could be got. As it is in a front...
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VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN (Tate Britain 27th March – 11th August 2019)
THE VAN GOGH EXHIBITON AT TATE BRITAINThe main entrance to the Tate Britain is reached by ascending the grand stone steps from Millbank. The Thames flowing in the foreground. The entrance to special...
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JANE AUSTEN PARADE FOR LITERACY 23rd June 2019
Caroline Jane Knight and Susannah Harker waiting to lead us off on the walk.On Sunday 23rd June, at noon, a whole crowd of Regency attired people gathered at Jane Austen’s Cottage in the village of...
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A REVIEW OF, ”JANE &ME, My Austen Heritage,” (pub 2017) by Caroline Jane...
Caroline Jane Knight, the fifth great niece of Jane Austen, descending from jane Austen’s third eldest brother Edward who was adopted by the Knight family of Chawton in Hampshire, has written an...
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A review of JANE AUSTEN’S ENGLAND: A TRAVEL GUIDE by Karin Quint
Jane Austen’s England by Karin Quint was first published in Dutch in 2014. It was first published in English in 2017 as a limited edition for Karin's backers crowdfunding the project to translate her...
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SANDITON ( an unfinished novel by Jane Austen) is coming to our screens. What...
Rose Williams plays Charlotte Heywood.Andrew Davies, the adaptor of Pride and Prejudice for television back in 1995 with Colin Firth doing his Darcy stint, has adapted Jane Austen’s final and...
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SANDITON the first four episodes. HOT STUFF
Charlotte Heywood played by Rose Williams.Episode 1 of Andrew Davis’s Sanditon an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. How much is it Jane Austen and how much Andrew Davis? That is the question. I read...
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SANDITON four more episodes STRESS AND CONFUSION
Episode 5Things are hotting up and beginning to go at a pace as plot themes continue and develop.One important Austen aspect I think Andrew Davis does highlight and portrays in this series is the...
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THE MARTYRS WALK- Tower Hill to Tyburn
The execution site on Tower Hill.TOWER HILL SITE OF EXECUTIONMonday 18th November, 11am, emerging from the tube station on Tower Hill, a few hundred metres north of The Tower of London. We crossed the...
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EMMA. a review: Directed by Autumn de Wilde
Callum Turner (Frank Churchill) Anya Taylor Joy (Emma) Johnny Flynn (Mr Knightley) Cast: Anya Taylor Joy as Emma, Johnny Flynn as Mr Knightly, Mia Goth as Harriet, Callum Turner as Frank Churchill,...
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LEITH HILL WALK with Tony Brown and John Lodge.
The Ordnance Survey Map showing Leith Hill in Surrey.Friday 13th March, the Coronavirus is now causing us to “social distance.” We are still wondering what, ”social distancing,” actually means in...
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MY LOCKDOWN DIARY
Making my next cup of coffee.My mother is 95 years old. Mum remembers her youth and childhood more than she does yesterday or today. One subject I talk to her about is her teenage years, which of...
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EDUCATING THE EAST END a Channel 4 series
Mr Bispham in the first episode of EDUCATING THE EAST END at," Frederick Bremer School," in Walthamstow.Among the myriad of ,”real life,” documentary drama series such as ,”Made In Chelsea,” “Made in...
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DATCHET TO MAIDENHEAD: a continuing walk along The Thames Path. (Friday 25th...
Datchet is located in the south east of the screen shot map. Maidenhead is in the north west part of the map. We walked on the north bank of The Thames, which is the lower loop of the river shown...
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THE RIO TAPE SLIDE ARCHIVE
The Rio Tape Slide Archive in the 1980sIn 2017, Tamara Stoll and Andrew Woodyatt were introduced to Andrew Denney who, together with publisher and designer Max Leonard digitised all the pictures in...
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What should we do to help children recover after lockdown?
The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE was appointed Secretary of State for Education on 24 July 2019.On Monday 8th March all school children in Britain returned to school. Over the last year most had to...
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Sunday 11th July 2021 8pm Italy v England at Wembley Stadium.
The game ended 1-1 after full time, followed by 30 minutes’ extra time that kept the score at 1-1. So penalties followedThe final score 1-1 with Italy winning 3-2 on penalties. Those bald facts...
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THE CROSSING by Manjeet Mann A REVIEW
“Manjeet Mann is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and director. She is the founder of Run The World- an organisation that works with women and girls from marginalised backgrounds and helps to...
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BATH: AN ADUMBRATION IN RHYME by John Matthews (pub 1795) annotated 2021. A...
Adumbration: The act of giving the main facts and not the details about something, or something that gives the main facts: Ben Wiebrecht of Stanford Online High School , Stanford University, is the...
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