About Me

Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Monday, 22 April 2013

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History - 2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

Lucy Worsley presents

Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army

Scrofula = The King's evil

Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox

1704 - Anne becomes Queen

Anne had 17 preganancies?

'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'

1714 - Queen Anne dies

George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

The Pre-Raphaelites - Episode 2 - BBC Four

Hogsmill River in Surrey (Ophelia by Millais)

Lizzie Siddall (aged 19) posed in a tin bath for Ophelia painting.

'The Hireling Shephard' - Hunt

John Ruskin married Effie in 1848.

1855 - Effie marries Millais

'Pretty Baa-Lambs' - Ford Maddox Brown

'An English Autumn Afternoon' - Ford Maddox Brown

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

‘I don’t really think I’m that nice. I think I’m probably just a sociopath who understands that niceness sells’ - Steve Carell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwxET69wrE

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Monday, 4 February 2013

Howard Goodall

Howard Goodall's Story of Music - 2. The Age of Invention

Somewhere only we know - Keane

'Arcangelo Corelli'

'Antonio Vivaldi' - Summer - The Four Seasons

Henry Purcell - 'An evening hymn'