The Temper Trap - Love Lost [Official Video HD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMuuc_pqx2s

The Witches Discover the Wok

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/12/03/cartoons_20121126#slide=5

Perdita - Sandys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perdita_Anthony_Frederick_Augustus_Sandys.jpg

Andrew Marr's History of the World - Ep 7

George Stephenson - illiterate until 18?

'Canton'  (China) - trading for tea

Britain grew opium in India to sell to China?

'The Nemesis' - British warship - 'ironclad'

Tolstoy was against serfdom?

Totlstoy freed his serfs.

Oct 1859 - Totlstoy sets up a school to educate serfs?

1860 - Lincoln becomes President

11 Southern States broke away to form the Confederacy

April 12, 1861 - start of the Civil War

January 1, 1863 - Emacipation Proclamation 

April 9, 1865 - The South surrenders

Richmond, Virginia - Confederate Capital

'Sic Semper Tyrannis' - Thus always to tyrants.

1905 - Japan and Russia - war

'Henry Morton Stanley' - first Westerner to chart the Congo River

Leopold II - King of the Belgians

1917 - Germany's new Foriegn Secretary - Arthur Zimmermann - 'one of the most destructive individuals of the 20th century' - Marr

'Zimmermann telegram' - intercepted by Britain

Spring Maiden (1884) - Sir Frank Dicksee

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7644&name=spring-maiden

Imogen - Herbert Gustave Schmalz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Imogen_-_Herbert_Gustave_Schmalz.jpg

Frederick Sandys : The Laurel Wreath

http://my-museum-of-art.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/frederick-sandys-laurel-wreath.html

Perdita by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (The Winter’s Tale)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perdita_Anthony_Frederick_Augustus_Sandys.jpg

Helen (1863) - Rossetti

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/beauties/helenoftroy.aspx - 'The model was Annie Miller.'

William Holman Hunt, ‘Amaryllis’, 1884.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Holman_Hunt_-_Amaryllis.jpg

Medea - Frederick Sandys

http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1925p105/medea/

1600s

1607 -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6616037.stm - Jamestown founded

1609 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml - Galileo discoveres Jupieter's four large moons

1610 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4jx0 - Caravaggio dies

1610/1611 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest  - The Tempest is written

1611 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3qy7 - King James Bible published

1616 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml - Shakespeare dies - 'Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include 'The Tempest''

Desperate Romantics - Works Featured

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Romantics#Works_featured

Grecian Reverie, 1889 (oil on canvas) - John WIlliam Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/353113/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Grecian-Reverie-1889-oil-on-canvas

A Song without Words, 1919 (pencil & w/c on paper) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/368182/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/A-Song-without-Words-1919-pencil-wc-on-paper

Cleonice, 1913 (oil on canvas) - John WIlliam Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/401547/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Cleonice-1913-oil-on-canvas

Reverie (Study) (oil on canvas) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/195715/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Reverie-Study-oil-on-canvas

Girl with Red Rose (oil on canvas) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/362971/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Girl-with-Red-Rose-oil-on-canvas

Listen to Possession on BBC Radio 4

http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/listen-to-possession-on-bbc-radio-4/

RB Quiz - 22 October 2012

Gonerill, Regen, Cordelia - King Lear's daughters - 'pelican daughters' quote

Millais's Collected Illustrations

http://www.amazon.com/Millaiss-Collected-Illustrations-Everett-Millais/dp/1843680351?SubscriptionId=AKIAIIP3RWFDEYGSBA3A&tag=gag0c-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1843680351&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

William Morris

http://thebeautifulnecessity.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/william-morris-le-carnet-rouge.html

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/john-everett-millais-merry.html - Merry

Charles Edward Perugini - Portrait of Sophie Gray

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/charles-edward-perugini-portrait-of.html

Frederick Sandys - Olive Margaret Slaughter, 1860

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/frederick-sandys-olive-margaret.html

The Contrast: Youth and Age by John Callcott Horsley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-contrast-youth-and-age-30980

William Herbert Allen - Portrait of a Young Girl with Medlars

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/william-herbert-allen-portrait-of-young.html

Portrait of a Seated Woman Sleeping by William Bradley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/portrait-of-a-seated-woman-sleeping-19693

Early Sorrow by Henry Le Jeune

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/early-sorrow-12839

Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pygmalion-and-the-image-the-hand-refrains-33712

The Toilette

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-toilette-77366 - The Toilette

St Valentine's Morning by John Callcott Horsley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/st-valentines-morning-18870

Gold Fireflies

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/stunning-time-lapse-photographs-of-gold-fireflies-in-japan/?src=footer

John Melhuish Strudwick

When Sorrow comes to Summerday Roses bloom in Vain - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/john-melhuish-strudwick-when-sorrow.html

The Lazy Girl by Henry Nelson O'Neil

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-lazy-girl-77367

William Powell Frith (1819–1909) by Augustus Leopold Egg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-powell-frith-18191909-8831

Herodias by Paul Delaroche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herodias_by_Paul_Delaroche.jpg

Walter Crane - Lilies

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/walter-crane-lilies.html

Ford Madox Brown: The Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer returns home to Manchester Art Gallery By Richard Mos

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting%20%26%20drawing/art364950

Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christine Rossetti

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/goblin-market-princes-progress-and.html

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The Water Gate

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/roddam-spencer-stanhope-water-gate.html

Robert Braithwaite Martineau - [Kit's First Writing Lesson] 1852

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/robert-braithwaite-martineau.html

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - illus for Goblin Market

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/dante-gabriel-rossetti-illus-for-goblin.html

The Pre-Raphaelite Dream book

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/pre-raphaelite-dream-book.html

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Elizabeth Siddall Plaiting her Hair

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/dante-gabriel-rossetti-elizabeth.html

Vanity, 1925 (pastel on paper)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/283714/Cowper-Frank-Cadogan-1877-1958/Vanity-1925-pastel-on-paper?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%3Ffilter_text%3Dvanity%2Bcowper%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%7B%22filter_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%2C%22filter_searchoption_id%22%3A%222%22%2C%22filter_assetstatus_id%22%3A1%2C%22filter_prev_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%7D%2C%22num_results%22%3A%222%22%2C%22sort_order%22%3A%22relevance%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22search_assets%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A0%7D

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/frank-cadogan-cowper-vanity.html

Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Taking_Leave_of_Tithonus.jpg

Marianne Stokes - The Passing Train

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/marianne-stokes-passing-train.html

John Melhuish Strudwick - Acrasia

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7391&name=acrasia

Walter Crane - Willows whiten, aspens quiver

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/walter-crane-willows-whiten-aspens.html

Pre-Raphaelite Red Dress

http://www.charles-patricia-lester.co.uk/red-dresses.html

La Bella Mano, 1875 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882

[La Bella Nano, 1875] - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/la_bella_mano.html

Henry Wallis - A Young Girl Arranging A Bouquet

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/henry-wallis.html

John William Waterhouse - portrait of Claire Kenworthy

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/john-william-waterhouse-portrait-of.html

Lady in a Green Dress by Augustus Leopold Egg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/lady-in-a-green-dress-71216

Walter Crane - Art and Life

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/walter-crane-art-and-life.html

"to study nature attentively"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradman334/3621190701/

Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrait of Ford Madox Brown

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/dante-gabriel-rossetti-portrait-of-ford.html

EBJ - portrait of a girl

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/edward-burne-jones-portrait.html

Simeon Solomon - Moon and Sleep

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/simeon-solomon-moon-and-sleep.html

Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains - EBJ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pygmalion-and-the-image-the-hand-refrains-33712

EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES RWS (1851-1914) - Bertuccios Bride

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/bertuccios-bride/13154

'Angel Playing a Flageolet', Edward Burne-Jones

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/sudley/collections/entrancehall/angel_burne-jones.aspx

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Titania sleeps - A Midsummer Night's Dream

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/frank-cadogan-cowper-titania-sleeps.html

Burne-Jones on Beauty in The Mirror of Venus and The Wedding of Psyche

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/bj/paintings/wong.html

Bill Moyers - Lincoln

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/lincoln/transcript1.html

Pet Canary by Sophie Anderson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pet-canary-20337

Exploring Hogarth's House

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15584519

Walker Art Gallery

'The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel', Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, c.1824  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/daguerre.aspx

'A Monkey' by George Stubbs, 1799  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/stubbs-monkey.aspx

'Puck', Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1856)  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/puck_hosmer.aspx

'Millie Smith', 1846, Ford Madox Brown  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/millie_smith.aspx

Monna Rosa

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/dante-gabriel-rossetti/monna-rosa-1867

http://www.invaluable.com/fine-art-genre/pre-raphaelite-gtvt6zm3qz

Stephen Greenblatt - Shakespeare

http://open.salon.com/blog/the_biblio_files/2008/10/24/stephen_colberts_shakespeare_smackdown

Descent from the Cross (after Peter Paul Rubens) by Thomas Gainsborough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/descent-from-the-cross-10965

Abott Thayer

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/thayer/thayer-paintings-pg-1.html

Queen Blanka, 1877 (oil on canvas)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/476454/Edelfelt-Albert-Gustaf-Aristides-1854-1905/Queen-Blanka-1877-oil-on-canvas

The Turtle Dove (oil on canvas laid down on board)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/198344/Anderson-Sophie-1823-1903/The-Turtle-Dove-oil-on-canvas-laid-down-on-board

Frederick Sandys - Oriana 1861

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sandys-oriana-t03904/text-summary

Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands - Richard Redgrave

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80570/ophelia-weaving-her-garlands-oil-painting-redgrave-richard/

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Lilith (1867) Colored chalk on paper

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/art/holdings/pre_raphaelite/

Sleeping Woman - Sandor Liezen-Meyer

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/47827/Liezen-Meyer-Sandor-1839-98/Sleeping-Woman?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%5C%2Fartist%5C%2FLiezen-Meyer-Sandor-1839-98%5C%2F7357%22%2C%22num_results%22%3A%222%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22creator_assets%22%2C%22creator_id%22%3A%227357%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A0%7D

Dante Gabriel RossettiSancta Lilias 1874

Sancta Lilias - 1874 (according to inscription) painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882).

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-sancta-lilias-n02440/text-exhibition-catalogue-text

Jason Rosenfeld discusses John Everett Millais

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpx4Klecq6M&feature=related

Frans Hals, Singing Boy with Flute, c. 1623

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5uG6ryCa4&feature=channel&list=UL

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Hope, 1896

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00vnE37pIE&list=PLugP0T-YRCWJ3NqEPmo5rMJ7jOVw2DCmu&index=11&feature=plpp_video

Correggio, Jupiter and Io

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBMFNvvOBI&feature=plcp

Penguin - Inky Fool

http://blog.inkyfool.com/2012/10/the-etymologicon-in-americas.html

'Pen is the Welsh word for head, thus Penzance in Cornwall is the Holy Headland. Gwyn is the Welsh word for white, as in Gwendolyn, which just means white in the same where that Candida does in Latin. So when Welsh sailors first saw the Newfoundland Auk, with a white patch on his head, they decided to call it a whitehead or penguin.' - Inky Fool

John Everett Millais: Glen Birnam

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:John_Everett_Millais_-_Glen_Birnam.JPG

Abraham Lincoln: The Great Campaigner

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/sidney-blumenthal-on-how-lincoln-played-the-political-game-to-win.html

One of my favourite lines in Shakespeare

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57532311/j.k-rowling-on-the-private-world-in-my-head/- Charlie Rose mentions Hitchens’ Harry Potter Review - JK Rowling Interview - CBS

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Hitchens-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 - Hitchens’ review

‘The distinctly slushy close of the story may seem to hold out the faint promise of a sequel, but I honestly think and sincerely hope that this will not occur. The toys have been put firmly back in the box, the wand has been folded up, and the conjuror is discreetly accepting payment while the children clamor for fresh entertainments. (I recommend that they graduate to Philip Pullman, whose daemon scheme is finer than any patronus.) It’s achievement enough that “19 years later,” as the last chapter-heading has it, and quite probably for many decades after that, there will still be millions of adults who recall their initiation to literature as a little touch of Harry in the night.’

Henry V - Act 4, prologue

‘His liberal eye doth give to everyone, Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all Behold, as may unworthiness define, A little touch of Harry in the night.And so our scene must to the battle fly, Where, Oh, for pity, we shall much disgrace, With four or five most vile and ragged foils Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous, The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see, Minding true things by what their mock’ries be.’ http://nfs.sparknotes.com/henryv/page_150.html

Zhukov

Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov - http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/10/stalins-general

William Hogarth and Georgian Life

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/william-hogarth-and-georgian-life

'It is a sad irony that England’s greatest painter of children  (The Graham Children,  for example)  was childless. However, Hogarth and Jane worked tirelessly for the Foundling Hospital, helping other people’s children. The love for them fuelled Hogarth’s masterpiece, his portrait of the founder of the Foundling Hospital, Thomas Coram'

How I use exercise to deal with my depression - John Crace

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/jun/06/how-exercise-deal-with-depression?CMP=twt_gu

Fibre

http://foodhospital.channel4.com/conditions/diabetes/fibre

'Items such as bran cereal, oats and beans (such as kidneys and lentils) are all good sources of fibre.'

Ebert - Vegetarianism

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/09/well_have_to_get_used_to_this_.html#more

RB Quiz

8/10/12

Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, 'Mustard Seed' - A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairies

Penny Lane is in Liverpool.

Ebert Article

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/10/would_you_kill_baby_hitler.html

Sir John Everett Millais - The Lost Sheep published 1864

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/sir-john-everett-millais-lost-sheep.html

Great Lives - Graham Greene

Tim Butcher chooses Graham Greene - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wjd1

Great Lives - William Hogarth

Ian Hislop chooses William Hogarth - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dnwsm

'Hogarth has always been a hero of mine' - Ian Hislop

1697 - Hogarth was born during the reign of 'William and Mary' (dies 1764)

1764 - dies in London, David Garrick (actor) was his friend

'Gin Lane' - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-gin-lane-t01799/text-catalogue-entry

'Marraige a la mode' - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement

Outre - unconventional, bizarre

- Hogarth was involved with a foundling hospital

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art64982- Thomas Coram  (foudner of the foundling hospital) - portrait by Hogarth

http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/ - The Foundling Museum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-hogarth - William Hogarth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-augustus-17211765-duke-of-cumberland-son-of-george30721 - 'William Augustus (1721–1765), Duke of Cumberland, Son of George II ' (attributed to)

http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/- A Rake's Progress

Great Lives - Mozart

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b - Michael Morpurgo chooses Mozart

1756 - born in Salzburg, Austria

1791 - Died

Insalubrious - not conducive to health, unwholesome

'Leopold'  - Mozart's father

This Sceptred Isle - 216/216

'The conclusion of the epic series. Anna Massey considers Britain's history, from the Romans to the first Prime Minister.'

55BC - Roman invasion of Britain?

410 AD - Romans leave Britain?

Henry II - 1st of the Plantagenet Kings

1215 - Magna Carta

Act of Settlement - throne of England to go to the Elector of Hanover.

George I - spoke no English

George IV - 'gluttonous rake'

Queen Anne - 1708 - last time a monarch vetoed legislation

"Rosalind and Celia, c.1845 " Maclise, Daniel

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/image/647166/daniel-maclise-rosalind-and-celia-c-1845

Not a Miracle, but a Trick - The statue of Hermione

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/notes/35

'The statue of Hermione at Paulina's house is not a real statue that comes to life by a miracle, it is actually Hermione herself. '

The portrait of Benjamin Disraeli

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/oct/03/disraeli-portrait-one-nation-labour

'John Everett Millais's elegiac 1881 painting of the prime minister thrills beyond mere portraiture.' - Jonathan Jones

This Scepred Isle - 215/216

'The Death of Victoria and the Dream of Gerontius'

1899 - Boer War starts

'concentration camps'

'Khaki election' - 1900 - Conservative party reuturned to Office

Princess Helena - Victoria's daughter - referred to as 'Lenchen'

22nd Jan - 1901 - Victoria dies at Osborne House (Isle of Wight), surrounded by children and granchildren

'John Brown' - Scottish

'Nelson's Victory'

- Buried alongside Prince Albert

April 1900 -Victoria travels to Dublin

This Scepred Isle - 214/216

The Boer War Turns the Century - 'As Queen Victoria reaches 80, the country is at war in South Africa.'

1899 - Victoria is 80 years old, Prince of Wales is 58 years old, PM is Lord Salisbury

Boer = Dutch word for farmer

Rhodesia named for Cecil Rhodes (now Zimbabwe)

1895 - Joseph Chamberlain becomes Colonial Secretary

This Scepred Isle - 213/216

Omdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking

'Victoria has reigned longer than any other monarch and celebrations are afoot.'

Sep 23 - 1897 - Victoria becomes longest reiginig British monarch

Joseph Chamberlain - Conservative

Queen's Grandson = German Emperor (Kaiser Bill)

1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Uncle as PM

June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

1898 - Gladstone died (He tried to achieve Home Rule for Ireland)

Queen Victoria 'adored Disraeli'

1894 - Glastone resigns, succeded by Lord Rosebery (Liberal?)

Joseph Chamberlain - Liberal Unionist Leader?

Sep 2 1898 - Battle of Omdurman, outside Khartoum (Churchill was present at the battle)

'Herbert Kitchener'

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=5 -

William Ewart Gladstone - George Frederic Watts (oil on panel, 1859)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02537/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=7 -

William Ewart Gladstone - Carlo Pellegrini (watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=14 - William Ewart Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(oil on canvas, 1879)

31 Healthy Foods You Should Be Eating Now

Black Beans

Kale

Salmon

Walnuts

Pumpkin

Apples

Blueberries

Bananas

Broccoli

Spinach

Sweet Potatoes

Kidney Beans

Lentils

Red Beets

Eggplant

Brussels Sprouts

Tomatoes

Whole Wheat Bread

Quinoa

Steel-Cut Oatmeal

Bulgur

Lean Meat

Flaxseeds

Chia Seeds

Almonds

Tuna

Fat-Free Milk

Fat-Free Greek Yogurt

Dark Chocolate

Red Wine

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/01/guide-the-31-healthiest-foods-of-all-time-with-recipes/#ixzz288MrQWoP

The Other Tribe - Skirts (Official Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqltYFleuQ&feature=share

Thomas Copper Gotch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Cooper_Gotch_-_La_Reine_Clothilde.jpg

Lady Hamilton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/lady-hamilton-17611815-as-a-bacchante-102701?r=1348487590369 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/lady-hamilton-as-saint-cecilia-176012#/add/lady-hamilton-as-saint-cecilia-176012 - Lady Hamilton as Saint Cecilia 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/emma-lady-hamilton#/add/emma-lady-hamilton - Emma, Lady Hamilton

Emma Hart (c.1761–1815), Later Lady Hamilton - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/emma-hart-c-17611815-later-lady-hamilton-175431#

Lady Hamilton as Cassandra - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/lady-hamilton-as-cassandra-201540#

Emma, Lady Hamilton  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/emma-lady-hamilton-157737# - 'Emma achieved celebrity through her beauty, personal vitality and skills as a performer. She is principally remembered as the artist George Romney's 'muse' and for her love affair with Nelson.' -http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02855/Emma-Lady-Hamilton

Millais

A Jersey Lily - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/a-jersey-lily-137280 - 'Born Emilie Charlotte le Breton in St Saviour’s Rectory, Jersey, Lillie Langtry went on to become a great society beauty and later a well-known actress. Her lifestyle challenged the social codes of her day, and she was at once both famous and infamous. Millais’ portrait of Langtry (holding what is in fact a Guernsey lily) was one of the most celebrated paintings of its day. It was displayed at the Royal Academy in 1878 where crowds thronged to see it. A policeman was assigned to guard the painting.'

Only a Lock of Hair, c.1857-58 (oil on panel) - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/62964/Millais-Sir-John-Everett-1829-96/Only-a-Lock-of-Hair-c.1857-58

Picture of Health, Alice, the Artist's Daughter - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/68524/Millais-Sir-John-Everett-1829-96/The-Picture-of-Health- 'This portrait of the artist’s daughter, Alice, was painted in 1874 and exhibited in that year at the Royal Academy. Millais and his wife, Effie, had eight children; four boys and four girls. Alice, their fifth child, was born in 1862.'

The Souvenir of Velázquez - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-souvenir-of-velazquez

Arthur Hughes

'Hughes was converted to Pre-Raphaelitism by reading The Germ and became a close friend and collaborator of the Brotherhood. One of the most talented of those associated with the movement, his paintings include April Love (1856) and The Long Engagement (1853–1859).' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/arthur-hughes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-potters-courtship-37122 - The Potter's Courtship

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/in-the-grass-71859 - In the Grass

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/sir-galahad-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-97835- Sir Galahad

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/as-you-like-it-98870 - 'As You Like It' (3 panels)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/a-music-party-102549- A Music Party

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/april-love-117702 - April Love (1855-56) (Tate)
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hughes-april-love-n02476

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/madeleine- Madeleine

Matt and Kim - Daylight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBeu3FVi60

The Rifles - Sweetest Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaY7U3JOSI

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How Britain Bought the Suez Canal

Kaiser Wilhem II - Victoria's grandson

Jan 1874 - Gladstone calls an election

1875 - Disraeli buys a controlling share in the Suez canal for Britain?

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'Gladstone's 'six brilliant years' bring about many changes, but the Queen is under threat from other quarters.'

1868 - Gladstone PM for first time, John Bright goes to the Board of Trade

1868 - 1874 -  Gladstone is PM

1869 - Disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland?

1871 - Officers could no longer buy commissions?

1861 - Prince Albert dies

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1869 - Cutty Sark launched?

RB Quiz

Gloucester - blinded - King Lear

John Boyd Dunlop - Scottish inventor (pneuamtic tyre)

Schumann

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/clara-schumann-10-things-you-1322174 - Clara

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/aug/05/classicalmusicandopera.music - Schumann

The pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain - audio art tour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2012/sep/11/pre-raphaelites-tate-britain-audio-interactive

Arthur Hughes by Arthur Hughes

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw03288/Arthur-Hughes

The Kissed Mouth: Happy Pre-Raphaelite Day!

The Kissed Mouth: Happy Pre-Raphaelite Day!: It's a good day to be a Pre-Raphaelite lover because today is the unofficial anniversary of the formation of our most beloved Brotherhood.  ...

This Sceptred Isle -

Disraeli

Feb 1868 - Disraeli becomes PM,

1918 - Women over 30 allowed to vote

Dec 1868 - Conseratives are out of office

1881 - Disraeli dies

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1867 - Disraeli and Electoral Reform

Oct 1865 - Palmerstone dies

'Stephenson's rocket'

1846 - Russell was PM
Russell served four monarchs

1865 - Russell was once more PM

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05513/John-Russell-1st-Earl-Russell?LinkID=mp03900&role=sit&rNo=7 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell - GF Watts

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 The Rise of Bismarck and the Death of Palmerstone

'The young Queen Victoria had Palmerstone sacked.'

Congress of Vienna - 1815 - Held after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

1865 - Palmerstone dies  "aka Pilgerstein"

1806 - Palmerstone enters Commons as a Tory

'Palmerstone was not a party man. He was simply Palmerstone and when he was gone so too was a remarkable age of English politicians.'  - Anna Massey

A-Z of the Pre-Raphaelites

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/az-of-the-preraphaelites-rebel-painters-of-a-completely-different-nature-8107060.html

A Flood - Millais

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/john-everett-millais/a-flood

Amos

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/amos-the-spokesman-of-god-133613

Scheherezade

Scheherezade – Symphonic Suite, Opus 35 - The Sea And Sinbad’s Ship - http://www.we7.com/listen/Royal-Philharmonic-Orchestra-conducted-By-Barry-Wordsworth/Scheherezade--Symphonic-Suite-Opus-35--The-Sea-And-/radio?song=8973572

The Story Of The Kalandar Prince 

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid - Burne-Jones

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burne-jones-king-cophetua-and-the-beggar-maid-n01771

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPb5zeXTsSE&feature=bf_next&list=EC6D4115FA125E542C

The Vale of Rest - Millais

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-the-vale-of-rest-n01507/text-summary - 'Of all the pictures that Millais created, this was his favourite'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n0i2KQRCs&feature=bf_next&list=EC6D4115FA125E542C&index=13

Claudio and Isabella - William Holman Hunt

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hunt-claudio-and-isabella-n03447/text-summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j13InegUPk&feature=edu&list=PL6D4115FA125E542C

Ellen Terry ('Choosing') - GF Watts

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw06269/Ellen-Terry-Choosing?LinkID=mp04458&role=sit&rNo=0

'This delicate yet sensuous portrait shows the seventeen-year-old Ellen Terry choosing between the camellias, which despite their luscious appearance have little scent, and the violets in her hand which are far humbler in appearance but smell sweeter. The choice, which is symbolic of that between worldly vanities and higher virtues, had a personal significance for the artist and the sitter.'

PRB Art on Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/harrisjulieg/art-pre-raphaelite/

Agnostic Prayer

"‘And if this food comes as a gift from some divine intelligence we understand that an intelligent being cannot blame us for questioning its existence. Nobody knows, nobody can know, if any deity is watching over us. Amen.’"

JW Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse - Cleopatra, 1888. Oil on canvas 

Pre-Raphernalia: Introductions!

Pre-Raphernalia: Introductions!: Welcome to this bit of foolishness... For fun, I started drawing cartoons involving the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle (am...

Pre-Raphernalia: Ned's Angels, Part One

Pre-Raphernalia: Ned's Angels, Part One: (To be continued next post, BWA- Ha-ha...) The genesis of this cartoon was seeing an illustration on the cover...

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After Albert

Dec 1861 - Albert dies (aged 42)

Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Victoria lost her father aged 8 months?

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The Death of Prince Albert

1861 - US Civil War begins

1861 - Victor Emanuel II - first king of a United Italy

1861 - Italy is united

1861 - roughly 4 million African Americans in the US?

March 4 1861 - Lincoln sworn in as President

'The Trent Affair'  aka 'Mason and Slidell Affair'

'General Grant beat Lee at Gettysburg in 1863'

Duchess of Kent - Victoria's mother

Ophelia (1862) by WIliam Gale

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/352795/Gale-William-1823-1909/Ophelia-1862-oil-on-panel

Ophelia or Evangeline (oil on panel)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/201381/Gale-William-1823-1909/Ophelia-or-Evangeline-oil-on-panel

Falstaff Examining his Recruits from Henry IV by Shakespeare, 1730

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/47518/Hogarth-William-1697-1764/Falstaff-Examining-his-Recruits-from-Henry-IV

Thisbe - Waterhouse

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/48469/Waterhouse-John-William-1849-1917/Thisbe

The Tempest - NFS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/elizabeth-searle-as-miranda-103887 - Elizabeth Searle as Miranda  - John Opie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/emma-hart-17651815-as-miranda - Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton), as Miranda - George Romney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/ferdinand-and-miranda-90257 - Ferdinand and Miranda (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') - Frederick Richard Pickersgill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/prospero-and-miranda-98425 - Prospero and Miranda by Frederick Richard Pickersgill

 http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124644/ferdinand-ariel-prospero-and-miranda-oil-painting-stothard-thomas/ - Ferdinand, Ariel, Prospero and Miranda (ca. 1789) - Thomas Stothard - 'An oil painting depicting Ferdinand's arrival on Prospero's island, Act I, Scene 2 of The Tempest.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/prospero-and-miranda-149257 - Henry Thomson

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/181771/Waterhouse-John-William-1849-1917/Miranda-1916-oil-on-canvas - Miranda - JW Waterhouse

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1832 (Whigs) , 1867 (Conservatives) , 1884 (Liberals) - Year of major Reform Acts

Disraeli - 'born Jewish but converted to Christianity'

Disraeli - 'consummate oppourtunist'

John Bright - Liberal MP

Sweetest eyes that were ever seen..., 1881 (oil on canvas)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/68046/Millais-Sir-John-Everett-1829-96/Sweetest-eyes-that-were-ever-seen...-1881

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/the-pre-raphaelite-vision/2/44/26/1/

The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon


http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/moving-sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-sleep-arthur-avalon-puerto-rico-london

The Winter's Tale

Why, that was when
Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand,
And clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter.
"I am yours for ever - Leontes




POLIXENES
What means Sicilia?
HERMIONE
He something seems unsettled.
POLIXENES
How, my lord!
What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?

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1856 - The second Opium War  - The Arrow War

China v Britain and France

French missionary killed in China.

Chinese officials board the British ship 'The Arrow'.

Conflict lasts four years.

1839 - 1842 - The first Opium War, Hong Kong ceded to Britain

October 1856 - The Chinese board 'The Arrow'

French and British join forces to defeat the Chinese.

Victor Emanuel II - King of Piedmont

Garibaldi and his 'red shirts'

Palmerstone's Foreign Secretary - Lord John Russell

1860 - Garibaldi leads the 'red shirts'

Russell compares Garibaldi to King William III.

Rossetti

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24140?docPos=2 - Rossetti

Rossetti was born in London - 12 May 1828

'His admiration for William Blake stemmed from his purchase of a Blake notebook from a British Museum attendant in 1847. - ODB

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/eve_of_stagnes.aspx - eve of St. Agnes by Holman Hunt impresses Rossetti

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-the-girlhood-of-mary-virgin-n04872 - Girlhood of Mary - ' This was Rossetti’s first completed oil painting and the first picture to be exhibited with the initials ‘PRB’, for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, inscribed on it.'

'Rossetti was the first to sign a work with the initials P.R.B. His Girlhood was sent to the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park in 1849, where the initials were ignored but the painting was a success' - ODB

Rossetti met Elizabeth Sidall in 1850 - ODB

Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/dante/beatrice.aspx - Lizzie Siddal serves as the model for Beatrice

The Return of Tibullus to Delia - http://www.bmagprints.org.uk/image/331215/dante-gabriel-rossetti-the-return-of-tibullus-to-delia-figure-study

Dante Drawing an Angel - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/136163/Rossetti

Found

The Annunciation

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation) (1849-1850) - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-ecce-ancilla-domini-the-annunciation-n01210

'A long friendship between Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones was initiated in 1856 ' - ODB

Bocca Baciata - http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/bocca-baciata-lips-that-have-been-kissed--34360 - Fanny Cornforth is the sitter.

'A setback occurred in April 1861, however, when Elizabeth Siddal gave birth to a stillborn child. The evidence suggests that she suffered from postnatal depression - ODB

'Though Rossetti had a melancholy side, he was also open, warm, and charismatic. With men he seems to have been companionable rather than competitive - ODB

'Rossetti's art work features prominently in many public collections in Britain. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has perhaps the largest collection, but the Tate has a large number of items, as do the British Museum; Manchester City Art Galleries; the Fitzwilliam Museum.. and the Ashmolean Museum. Abroad, the Fogg Art Museum... has a distinguished collection. The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft collection at Wilmington, Delaware, holds many items connected with Rossetti and his life.' - ODB

Tumblr Paintings

'Mother and Child' - Frederic George Stephens - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stephens-mother-and-child-n04634

Flaming June (ca. 1895) - Frederic, Lord Leighton - http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/encounters-with-europe/2/44/1/1/

The Muse Erato at her Lyre (1895)John William Godward

Sappho (1903) - John William Godward

Fear - Marie Euphrosyne Spartali (later, Marie Spartali Stillman) - Red chalk on paper - c. 1870

Miranda - Thomas Francis Dicksee 

Juliet (1877) - Thomas Francis Dicksee

Portrait of a Lady - Sir Frank Dicksee 

John Singleton Copley, Venus and Cupid, c. 1779

Bartolomeo Manfredi - Allegory of the Four Seasons, 1610. Oil on canvas

William Bouguereau - Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880. - http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=584

Miranda (1868)  - Sandys 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hamlet and Ophelia - Compositional Study (1865) - http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904P401/hamlet-and-ophelia-compositional-study/#related

Ophelia (1863-1864) by Arthur Hughes

In Realms of Fancy (1911)  - John William Godward

The Return of Persephone (1891) - Frederic Leighton  - http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php

The End of the Quest (1921) - Sir Frank Dicksee

Queen Eleanor 1858 Painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=685&type=artist

Ophelia, 1861 - Thomas Francis Dicksee

 Miranda - Dicksee 

The Birth of Venus - Cabanel

Pandora, 1873 - Cabanel 

Lady Tennyson on Afton Downs, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight - Valentine Cameron Prinsep