#sir john fenwick

[unanchored-ship]

okay so while thinking about john fenwick (guy who tried to fuck up william) I accidentally called him fentick and I was like fenwick x benti(n)ck aYO???????

so this exists now

[scotianostra]

July 7th 1575 saw "The Raid of the Redeswire"

This has a number of names, The battle of Carter's Bar, The Redswire Fray being another two, it has been described as a skirmish in what should have been a run-of-the-mill Warden’s meeting had been arranged between John Carmichael, the Keeper of Liddesdale, and the English Middle March Warden, Sir John Forster. It's also been described as the last major battle between Scotland and England, I would hardly call it a battle, although we (The Scots) did give them a good beating that day!.

There would have been fines to be paid, men to be handed over to answer for their crimes, and paperwork to be exchanged. It is unlikely that either side had considered an all-out fight. Things seems to have gone well enough, until the case of one individual was raised. Carmichael demanded that he was handed over, Forster denied knowledge of his whereabouts, which was not believed. Insults were exchanged and then the entire meeting descended into violence. The skirmish seemed to have gone the Scots way due to the the fact that the English mainly fought with bows and swords, but the Scots were armed with firearms as well as more traditional weapons.

Walter Scott wrote about the Skirmish n the first edition of the Minstrelsy of 1802

"Some gaed to drink and some stude still

And some to cards and dice them sped

Till on ane Farnstein they fyled a bill

And he was fugitive and fled.

Then was there nought but bow and speir

And every man pulled out a brand;

"A Schafton and a Fenwick" thare:

Gude Symington was slain frae hand."

Farnstein, is said to be the man the English were after, however local tradition states that it was a man by the name of Henry Robson, official papers of the time don't identify the man.

Anyway the story goes that the Scots were forced to retreat, but during their flight they met up with another group from Jedburgh, who were late to the meeting.This gave the Scots an advantage. They began to break the English lines and in time, the English were routed. The English second in command, George Heron was killed, along with his brother John and 23 other Englishmen. Forster and several other nobles were captured, and the Scots conducted an impromptu raid, taking 300 cattle from local farms., well it would be rude not to!

Prisoners were taken by the Scots, and brought to James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, who was the regent for King James VI. This soon became embarrassing for the Scots, as the prisoners, who were being held at Dalkeith Castle, had likely been taken for their ransom value, although Douglas stated that it was to keep them from being killed in the heat of battle.[He wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth describing the events, but she was outraged and sent William Killigrew to demand immediate satisfaction from the Earl of Morton. Douglas was directed to meet with George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, who was the lieutenant of the northern counties, to work out the details, and the two men were able to come to an amicable solution, as Douglas didn't want to anger Elizabeth, and she wanted to avoid a war.

Forster and the others had been treated with kindness and were released with gifts and an apology for being held.

Carmichael was delivered to York as a prisoner for trial, but was acquitted as the English court found that Forster had engaged in an unprovoked attack.

The picture shows a monument known as the Redeswire Stone built in commemoration of the battle. It reads, "On this ridge, June 7th, 1575 was fought one of the last border raids, known as The Raid of the Redeswire".

[victusinveritas]

William III died in 1702 after his horse tripped over a mole hill. The horse, Sorrell, pictured, had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick who had been executed in 1697 for plotting to assassinate William. Sometimes it takes a horse to do a hitman's job. Sometimes it takes a little longer because a horse is a horse, of course.

Sir John Fenwick's other accomplice was toasted by Jacobites as recognition of this, toasting to 'The little Gentleman in Black Velvet,' also known as the mole.

Sir John Fenwick's execution for attempted regicide in 1697 should not be confused with that of John Fenwick, SJ, in 1679 as part of the Popish Plots...also for attempted regicide. Not going into the Popish Plots here because it's late and sleep hygiene is a stern mistress.

[montparnassee]

A Jacobite find I have on Layaway just now- Sir John Fenwicke, the last man to be executed upon a bill of attainder for High Treason, in 1697.

Scottish ephemera, especially Jacobite-centric, is so hard to find! 

[justforbooks]

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (also known as Paddy Fermor) was born on February 11, 1915. He was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once described him as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".

In 1950 Leigh Fermor published his first book, The Traveller's Tree, about his post-war travels in the Caribbean. The book won the Heinemann Foundation Prize for Literature and established his career. The reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement wrote: "Mr Leigh Fermor never loses sight of the fact, not always grasped by superficial visitors, that most of the problems of the West Indies are the direct legacy of the slave trade." It was quoted extensively in Live and Let Die, by Ian Fleming. He went on to write several further books of his journeys, including Mani and Roumeli, of his travels on mule and foot around remote parts of Greece.

Leigh Fermor translated the manuscript The Cretan Runner written by George Psychoundakis, a dispatch runner on Crete during the war, and helped Psychoundakis get his work published. Leigh Fermor also wrote a novel, The Violins of Saint-Jacques, which was adapted as an opera by Malcolm Williamson. His friend Lawrence Durrell recounts in his book Bitter Lemons (1957) how, during the Cypriot insurgency against continued British rule in 1955, Leigh Fermor visited Durrell's villa in Bellapais, Cyprus:

After a splendid dinner by the fire he starts singing, songs of Crete, Athens, Macedonia. When I go out to refill the ouzo bottle...I find the street completely filled with people listening in utter silence and darkness. Everyone seems struck dumb. 'What is it?' I say, catching sight of Frangos. 'Never have I heard of Englishmen singing Greek songs like this!' Their reverent amazement is touching; it is as if they want to embrace Paddy wherever he goes.

After living with her for many years, Leigh Fermor was married in 1968 to the Honourable Joan Elizabeth Rayner (née Eyres Monsell), daughter of Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell. She accompanied him on many of his travels until her death in Kardamyli in June 2003, aged 91. They had no children. They lived part of the year in their house in an olive grove near Kardamyli in the Mani Peninsula, southern Peloponnese, and part of the year in Gloucestershire.

In 2007, he said that, for the first time, he had decided to work using a typewriter, having written all his books longhand until then.

He opened his home in Kardamyli to the local villagers on his name day. New Zealand writer Maggie Rainey-Smith (who was staying in the area while researching for her next book) joined in with his name day celebration in November 2007, and, after his death, posted some of the photographs taken that day. The house at Kardamyli was featured in the 2013 film Before Midnight.

Leigh Fermor influenced a generation of British travel writers, including Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, Philip Marsden, Nicholas Crane and Rory Stewart.

Works

Books

The Traveller's Tree. (1950)

The Violins of Saint-Jacques. (1953)

A Time to Keep Silence (1957), with photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. This was an early publication from the Queen Anne Press, a company managed by Leigh Fermor's friend Ian Fleming. In this book he describes his experiences in several monasteries, and the profound effect the time spent in them had on him.

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (1958)

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (1966)

A Time of Gifts – On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (1977, published by John Murray)

Between the Woods and the Water – On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (1986)

Three Letters from the Andes (1991)

Words of Mercury (2003), edited by Artemis Cooper

Introduction to Into Colditz by Lt Colonel Miles Reid (Michael Russell Publishing Ltd, Wilton, 1983). The story of Reid's captivity in Colditz and eventual escape by faking illness so as to qualify for repatriation. Reid had served with Leigh Fermor in Greece and was captured there trying to defend the Corinth Canal bridge in 1941.

Foreword of Albanian Assignment by Colonel David Smiley (Chatto & Windus, London, 1984). The story of SOE in Albania, by a brother in arms of Leigh Fermor, who was later a MI6 agent.

In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley. (Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, the youngest of the six Mitford sisters, was the wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire).

The Broken Road – Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos (2013), edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron from PLF's unfinished manuscript of the third volume of his account of his walk across Europe in the 1930s.

Abducting A General – The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete (2014)

Dashing for the Post: the Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2017), edited by Adam Sisman

More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018), edited by Adam Sisman

Translations

No Innocent Abroad (published in United States as Forever Ulysses) by C. P. Rodocanachi (1938)

Julie de Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances by Colette (1952)

The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis (1955)

Screenplay

The Roots of Heaven (1958) adventure film, directed by John Huston

Periodicals

"A Monastery", in The Cornhill Magazine, London, no. 979, Summer, 1949.

"From Solesmes to La Grande Trappe", in The Cornhill Magazine, John Murray, London, no. 982, Spring 1950.

"Voodoo Rites in Haiti", in World Review, London, October 1950.

"The Rock-Monasteries of Cappadocia", in The Cornhill Magazine, London, no. 986, Spring 1951.

"The Monasteries of the Air", in The Cornhill Magazine, London, no. 987, Summer 1951.

"The Entrance to Hades", in The Cornhill Magazine, London, no. 1011, Spring 1957.

Books about Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor

Artemis Cooper: Patrick Leigh Fermor. An Adventure (2012)

Helias Doundoulakis, Gabriella Gafni: My Unique Lifetime Association with Patrick Leigh Ferrmor (2015)

Simon Fenwick: Joan. The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (2017)

Michael O'Sullivan: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania (2018)

Leigh Fermor was noted for his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Although in his last years he suffered from tunnel vision and wore hearing aids, he remained physically fit up to his death and dined at table on the last evening of his life.

For the last few months of his life Leigh Fermor suffered from a cancerous tumour, and in early June 2011 he underwent a tracheotomy in Greece. As death was close, according to local Greek friends, he expressed a wish to visit England to say good-bye to his friends, and then return to die in Kardamyli, though it is also stated that he actually wished to die in England and be buried next to his wife.

Leigh Fermor died in England, aged 96, on 10 June 2011, the day after his return. His funeral took place at St Peter's Church, Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, on 16 June 2011. A Guard of Honour was provided by serving and former members of the Intelligence Corps, and a bugler from the Irish Guards sounded the Last Post and reveille. Leigh Fermor is buried next to his wife in the churchyard at Dumbleton.

The Greek inscription is a quotation from Konstantinos Kavafis that can be translated as "In addition, he was that best of all things, Hellenic".

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In Royal History . 8 March 1702 . King William III died . . ◼ William died of pneumonia at Kensington Palace, due to a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel. The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. Because his horse had stumbled into a mole’s burrow, many Jacobites toasted “the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat”. William was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside his wife. His sister-in-law, Anne, became queen regnant of England, Scotland & Ireland. . William’s death brought an end to the Dutch House of Orange. . . 👑 William III also widely known as William of Orange, was sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland & Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672 & King of England, Ireland & Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. It is a coincidence that his regnal number (III) was the same for both Orange & England. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He is sometimes informally known in Northern Ireland & Scotland as “King Billy” . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #TheYear1702 #D8Mar #KingWilliamIII #WilliamIII #WilliamIIIofEngland #WilliamofOrange #KingBilly #HouseofOrange #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #kensingtonpalace #Royals #Royalty #Orange #DutchRoyals #KingWilliam #Thisday #London #RoyalLondon #Royalhistory #onthisday #otd #kingwilliam #Kingofengland (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9fKDjMHXsT/?igshid=1jq7ta8moo1fd

[historical-revolution]

The Jacobite Risings ( 1688 - 1750′s ) 

What were the Jacobite risings? 

The Jacobite risings were a series of rebellions, uprisings and battles  by the Scottish, welsh and Irish clans against the British. The primary aim was to get the catholic  Stuart king James II and his descents (he was the last British catholic king) onto the British throne after The Stuart King Charles I was excecuted in 1649.

The main events: 

the Glorious Revolution 1688:  The glorious revolution was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English parliamentarians lead by the Dutch William III,  prince of Orange. The Revolution permanently ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England. For British Catholics its effects were disastrous both socially and politically: For over a century Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in the Westminster Parliament; they were also denied commissions in the army, and the monarch was forbidden to be Catholic or to marry a Catholic, this latter prohibition remaining in force until 2015. 

The WIlliamite war in Ireland 1688 - 1691:  This was a conflict between the Jacobites ( Supporters of king James II of England and Ireland VII of Scotland) and WIlliamites ( supporters of William of Orange)  This war was about who would become monarch of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The war was a direct consequence of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ James was supported by the mostly Catholic "Jacobites" in Ireland and hoped to use the country as a base to regain his Three Kingdoms. He was given military support by France to this end. For this reason, the war became part of a wider European conflict known as the Nine Years' War. Unfortunately by 1690 King James II had fled Ireland after the battle of the Boyne. At the battle of Aughrim in 1691 the Irish Jacobites were defeated, William of Orange had successfully destroyed the Jacobites in Ireland and further uprisings would be confined to England and Scotland.

Jacobite assaination plot 1696: One John Charnock who had served in the Jacobite cavalry at the battle of the Boyne and a group of Jacobites in England initially planned to kidnap William II and Mary II in 1694 and take them to France. However there  were Mixed messages from James II. This confused the issue, and nothing had been done by April 1695, when William left the country. Sir John Fenwick was one of the inner circle informing James II of English affairs. The death of Queen Mary at the end of 1694 revived their interest in direct action in England, and finance from France arrived by April 1695. Fenwick, however, was opposed to the schemes proposed by Charnock and his group. Meeting in May with Sir John Friend and others, he sent Charnock to France to move a plan for a massive invasion, instead. In June Fenwick was involved in Jacobite rioting and was arrested. Sir George Barclay was sent to act as his deputy in commanding forces supposed to co-ordinate with an invasion force under the Duke of Berwick. Barclay assessed the plan as hopeless, shunned Fenwick, and went back to the original idea of "kidnapping" William. The plot was foiled by William Trumball secretary of state for the Northern department.

Jacobite rising of 1715: The rising of 1715 was the attempt of James Francis Edward Stewart to regain the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland. After his father King James II was exiled to France. This rising failed and many of the Jacobites taken prison were tried for treason and excecuted. James fled back to France and then Italy where he lived out the rest of his life.

The Jacobite rising of 1745: Charles James Stuart the eldest son of James Francis Edward Stewart attempted to regain the crown for his father and himself. The Jacobitea were greatly outnumbered by English government forces. After the Jacobite defeat at the battle of Culloden Charles fled to Rome in defeat where he died defeated and bitter. The Jacobite cause didn’t completely disappear after 1745 but measures were put in place that ceased it’s threats to the Protestant crown. The pope refusing to acknowledge Charles as king of England Scotland and Ireland also contributed to the weakening of the Jacobites.

Key historical figures:

William III or William of Orange ( 1650 - 1702 )

William  was the Dutch prince of orange he was staunchly Protestant and conservative. When king James II and VII was deposed  from the throne after the glorious revolution William arrived in Britain and supported by influential protestant British politicians took the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689 with wife Mary II his first cousin and daughter of James II.

James II of England and Ireland VII of Scotland ( 1633 - 1701)

James was the second Stuart monarch on the throne since the excecution of his father Charles I however he only reigned from 1685 - 1688. The glorious revolution of 1688 had him deposed from the throne he escaped with his life to France sponsored by his cousin and ally Louis XIV. He attempted to regain the throne but after the defeat of the jacobites at the battle of the Boyne in 1691 he returned to France where he lived for the rest of his life. he was the last Catholic King of England.

James Francis Edward Stuart ( 1688 - 1766) 

When his protestant half sister Anne of Great Britain died in 1714 without an heir the throne passed over 50 close catholic relatives including James. As a result the house of Stuart died with Anne and the German and Protestant  house of Hanover began with George I. Naturally James Francis believed he was was the rightful king of Britain and started a Jacobite uprising in 1715. He unfortunately failed and  returned to France. 

Charles Edward Stuart ( 1720 - 1788 ) 

Also known as Bonny prince Charlie, Charles Edward lead the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and was the last Stuart to make a claim to the British throne. Despite the support from the highland clans both catholic and Protestant he  was defeated at the battle of Culloden by George II and his army. The Stuart claim to the throne truely ended with him.

[dulwichdiverter]

Treachery and treason

Words: Mark Bryant; Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images

This year, 2019, not only marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, but also the departure for Nazi Germany of a former Dulwich resident who became one of modern history’s most notorious propagandists – William Joyce, better known as “Lord Haw-Haw”.

Joyce was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 24 1906, the eldest of four children of an Irish émigré builder and a doctor’s daughter from Lancashire. When he was three the family returned to Ireland and 12 years later he was sent to England to stay with his mother’s relations in Oldham.  

Intending to study medicine, he moved to London in 1922 to attend the Battersea Polytechnic Institute (later the University of Surrey in Guildford), while living in digs  nearby.

The following year his parents and siblings moved to Allison Grove, Dulwich, just off what is now the south circular near West Dulwich Station, and William joined them. His father had set up shop as a grocer nearby.

Their new home, to paraphrase from Rebecca West’s book The Meaning of Treason (1949), was “a house as delightfully situated as any in London. Allison Grove is a short road of small houses which has been hacked out from the corner of the gardens of a white Regency villa in the greenest part of Dulwich.

“Not far off is Mill Pond, still a clear mirror of leaves and sky, and beyond it Dulwich College amidst its groves and playing fields. The neighbours all noted that William was the apple of the family’s eye, and they could understand it, for the boy had an air of exceptional spirit and promise.”

However, his studies at the polytechnic did not go well and he failed his exams soon after moving to Dulwich. Undaunted (he was still only 17), he got a place to study English at Birkbeck College, University of London.  

While at Birkbeck he became chairman of the Conservative Student Society and had ambitions to become a Tory MP.

In December 1923, while still a student, he also became a member of the British Fascists (BF) group which canvassed for the Conservative and Unionist parties and acted as stewards for their meetings.

In the run-up to the general election of October 1924, Joyce was a steward at a rally at Lambeth Baths hall near the Imperial War Museum (now the site of Lambeth Towers) for the Unionist candidate for Lambeth North, Jack Lazarus.  

However, a fight broke out with Communist hecklers and Joyce was badly slashed in the face by a razor. The Evening Standard reported the incident on its front page, quoting Lazarus as saying “The man Joyce, one of our supporters, fell down, his face covered in blood”. The article continued: “Mr William Joyce, of Allison Grove, Dulwich, had... to be confined to hospital.”

A week after his 21st birthday, when he was still living at home in Dulwich, he secretly married a fellow Birkbeck student. In June 1927 he received a first class degree in English and soon afterwards began a postgraduate course in philology.

He and his wife then moved to Chelsea, where he joined the Conservative Party (he had left the British Fascists in 1925) and, having failed to be nominated as a Tory candidate, he tried unsuccessfully to get a job at the Foreign Office. He then worked as a tutor of languages and history at the Victoria Tutorial College in Eccleston Square.

By 1932 he and his family (which then included two daughters) had moved south of the river again and settled in a flat on Farquhar Road in Gipsy Hill, near the Crystal Palace before it burnt down. The house was within walking distance of Joyce’s parents in Dulwich.

While on Farquhar Road Joyce continued working as a tutor and, having given up his philology course, he began to study part-time for a PhD in educational psychology at King’s College London.  

Meanwhile, he joined Oswald Mosley’s newly founded British Union of Fascists (the Blackshirts) in August 1933 and when he was offered a well-paid  job working for the BUF in November, he gave up his PhD and his tutoring  work.  Within two years he became the BUF’s director of propaganda and deputy leader.

Meanwhile, his relationship with his wife had deteriorated and in 1936 the marriage was dissolved. He then remarried and moved to north London. As Rebecca West says: “He left south London, which had been his home since he was  a boy with the exception of a few brief episodes; which was still the home of his father, Michael Joyce, and his mother, Queenie, and his brothers and sister.”

However, before long he returned to Dulwich. In 1937 he left the BUF and founded –  with ex-BUF members John Beckett (fomerly the independent Labour MP for Peckham) and John McNab – his own party, known as the National Socialist League.  

The NSL held a number of meetings in Dulwich on the corner of Calton Avenue and Dulwich Village, outside Dulwich Library on Lordship Lane and sometimes inside when permission for the use of St Barnabas’ Parish Hall in Dulwich Village was refused).

His brothers also supported the NSL. To paraphrase Mary Kenny: “Frank had spoken for the Mosley Blackshirt movement on a couple of occasions, mostly at local meetings in Dulwich. Quentin also became caught up in the fringes of fascist politics because of his unquestioning devotion to his brother William.

“Indeed, William seems to have roped in his whole family. He even had his teenage sister, Joan, hand out Fascist propaganda leaflets at Sydenham School for Girls. He also dressed little Robert up in a black shirt. ‘Poor Mrs Joyce!’ the neighbours in Dulwich used to exclaim. ‘With all those terrible children in their black shirts!’”

The NSL was disbanded in 1939 and Joyce and his wife moved to Germany on August 26 that year, only days before the Second World War broke out. Within a short while he began his infamous nightly propaganda broadcasts to Britain prefaced with the words “Germany calling”.

The nickname Lord Haw-Haw originated from an article written by Daily Express radio critic Jonah Barrington, who added: “I imagine him with a receding chin, a  questing nose, thin yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his button-hole. Rather like PG Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster.”

In 1939 Barrington produced a humorous book, Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen – one of the German radio stations Joyce broadcasted from).  It was illustrated by the cartoonist Ian Fenwick, who was killed during the war.

Many other cartoonists lampooned Lord Haw-Haw including William Heath Robinson and Leslie Illingworth, who lived in Dulwich in the 1960s. The Beano comic’s “Lord Snooty” strip even featured him during the war.

He was also the butt of comedians such as Max Miller in the revue Haw-Haw at the Holborn Empire, Arthur Askey as “Baron Hee-Haw” on BBC radio’s “Band Waggon”, Geoffrey Sumner, presenting “Nasty News” on British Pathé newsreels  and the Western Brothers in their song Lord Haw-Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg.

Joyce broadcast throughout the war years but, ironically, one of the first German bombs to land on Dulwich during the London Blitz in August 1940 completely destroyed his family home. His parents, sister and youngest brother then moved into a flat on Underhill Road, East Dulwich.

His parents both died there in the 1940s, after which his sister and brother Quentin lived in the flat for a while. Quentin was arrested as a possible spy in 1939 but was released from prison in 1943. He later married and lived nearby in Sydenham Hill.

His other two brothers, Frank and  Robert, both served in the British Army during the war. Frank’s first wife was the daughter of Harry Weeks, who ran the Magdala pub in Lordship Lane (now The Lordship).  

In the last days of the war Joyce was captured by the Allies and put on trial. By a strange quirk of fate the chief prosecutor was Old Alleynian Sir Hartley Shawcross (the future Lord Shawcross), who later became chairman of the board of governors of Dulwich College and was president of the Alleyn Club.

At first it seemed that Joyce might be acquitted as he was born in the USA (and was thus not a UK citizen), but he was eventually condemned of high treason and hanged as a result of  his application for a British passport in 1933 while living in Farquhar Road.

In 2009, when she was in her 80s, Joyce’s elder daughter Heather, interviewed on  BBC Radio 4, said that she was at boarding school when war broke out and was not aware of his activities.

However, she added: “I saw him in my mind’s eye at the parental home, where my grandparents lived, in Allison Grove and he was pacing the carpet of their living-room with the lace curtains and the piano, and he had his little German songbook and he was walking up and down and he was singing, ‘Dulwich-Land, Dulwich-Land Uber Alles’.”

William Joyce died in Wandsworth Prison on January 3, 1946 aged 39. He was the last person to be executed for high treason in the UK.

 Mark Bryant lives in East Dulwich and is the author World War II in Cartoons and other books.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Two Refuse To Work Get 30 Days in Jail,” Toronto Star. January 19, 1932. Page 2. ---- House of Industry Residents Balk at Allotted Tasks Again To-Day ---- Ten inebriates faced Magistrate Tinker in early court to-day. All technical first offenders, with one exception, they were remanded for sentence. The exception was Albert Walsh, who occupied a nice in Magistrate Tinker’s retentive memory. Walsh was fined $10 or 10 days.

Yesterday, House of Industry temporary residents appeared in court, facing accusations that they refused to work. To-day the house again had a couple of representatives for the same reason.

Charges as a vagrant, John Bazan who had $4 in his pockets, flatly refused to do his allotted task, saying he was sick, according to evidence. Accused was snet to jail for 30 days. Ivan Martengo entered the grocery department of the institution, and there, according to an official, ‘seemed to be telling the other men not to work.’ Accused argued he was a room worker, and not a grocery department worker, after which the bench sent him to jail for 30 days.

John Crowley and W. J. Collins, vagrants, convicted of begging from door to door, were also given 30 days apiece.

Say 305 Tons Stolen When Alfred Davis and Ernest W. Knight were called to answer a charge of stealing 305 tons of zinc dross, the property of the Superior Zinc Corporation of Philadephia, valued at $12,700, J. C. McRuer, K.C., and R. S. Robertson, K.C., protested when the crown applied for yet another remand on the grounds that Herbert J. Maroney, complainant, had gone to the hospital to undergo a minor operation.

‘‘I wish to point out that the great unfairness of a criminal charge of this nature being allowed to drag on and on,’ protested Mr. McRuer. ‘These are business men, they own a property valued at $175,000, with a mortgage thereon of $100,000. Since these proceedings have been initiated the banks have closed down on them and the mortgages are beginning to press for payment. They are able to do nothing to reconstruct their business and are forced to sit inactive while their whole fortune dwindles away.’

Judge Coastworth expressed his intention of definitely going on with the criminal charge to-morrow.

Woman Collapses A woman screamed, fell and was carried outside, in the final phases of the trial of James McKenzie, and Lawrence Forsythe, charged with the theft of the bag of Dr. Charles Fenwick valued with its contents at $106. McKenzie was also charged with having drugs.

Detectives McAllister and Sullivan told of the finding of the drugs in McKenzie’s room, together with the doctor’s instruments, and of McKenzie’s subsequent confession, which implicated Forsythe. A conviction was registered and Mr. Gibson commenced to detail the records of the accused men, in each case a formidable one.

As the crown recalled the long years, McKenzie had spent in penitentiary and reformatory, his wife screamed.

‘I will pass sentence to-morrow,’ said Judge Coatsworth with a glance of compassion as the woman was carried from the court.

Urges Negligence Charge ‘The appropriate charge when any person is injured is a charge of criminal negligence,’ said Judge Coatsworth when a pretty little girl told the court how she had been injured by an automobile driven by Samuel Caldwell. ‘This was a pure accident.’ stated defence counsel.

‘When cars are injured it is one thing. With persons it is another. What compensation has he offered?’ ‘Nothing, sir.’

‘There you are. People driving cars, no money. I wonder what it has cost this little girl’s parents. He comes here pleading poverty and he has been allowed to take his car away. I wonder the police letting him have it. They must be much more careful after this.’

‘I find him guilty,’ decided Judge Coatsworth. ‘There will have to be some compensation; we are willing to show every consideration to people from the States, but they cannot come over here, injure people and then get their cars and go back. He will be fined $200 and costs or 30 days.’

Caldwell, at the summons rail, was placed in the dock and conducted to the cells, pending production of his fine.

Must Make Restitution ‘I want to see these people get their money. I will put him on probation for a year. Payments must be made very month and the whole thing must be cleared within a year,’ decided Judge Coatsworth, after a conviction on two counts for theft and fraud had been registered against George C. Fleming.

The charges involved certain transactions with regard to automobiles, . C. Elgie, appearing for the accused. Mrs. Fleming made an eloquent plea on behalf of her husband, asserting that their life had been happy until now.

Protests Finger-Printing ‘Why should I be arrested? Why have I been treated as a criminal? I have been finger-printed,’ said Jacob Kevyinets, dramatically holding up both hands. ‘Because your wife swore out a warrant,’ replied the bench.

This incident was a sequel to the dismissal of a theft charge, preferred against Kovyinets on his wife’s information, arising out of the complaint that the accused retained a cheque given him by the lady’s father in payment of a note. The bench ruled the cheque was undoubtedly accused’s property and that there was no foundation whatever for the charge laid.

‘This a family matter,’ said Judge Coatsworth, ‘we can do nothing about it here.’

Rosedale Youth Remanded Charge with theft of a quantity of gasoline and a battery from the automobile of Mrs. M. Lumbers, a neighbor, Douglas F. Gordon, student, of Crescent Rd., was remanded for trial till January 22.

The accused youth was arrested by Detective Gadd last evening. The police allege that Gordon has been in the habit of driving his parent’s automobile, a large machine with gas eating proclivities. Being short of the necessary funds to secure enough fuel to satisfy its insatiable maw, and being eager to take it out, he entered complainant’s garage and stole both gasoline and battery, they declare. Following to-day’s remand, the youth was admitted to $200 bail.

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It’s Writer’s in Horror Recognition Month

Our next writer’s profile for Writer’s in Horror Recognition Month is John Fenwick Anderson Blackburn.

John Fenwick Anderson Blackburn  (26 June 1923 – 1993) was a British novelist who wrote thrillers, and horror novels. Blackburn was described as "today's Master of Horror" by The Times Literary Supplement.

Many of his books feature stock characters, including General Charles Kirk of British Intelligence and his friends, the scientist Sir Marcus Levin and his Russian wife Tania.

His horror novels are often structured as thrillers, with detective story plots involving international espionage, but often leading to either a supernatural or science fictional resolution. This means that, as with some of the books of James Herbert, many of Blackburn's horror novels are notable for pace and plotting rather than for atmospheric effects. Blackburn specialised in mixing modern concerns such as germ warfare and international conspiracies with ancient traditions and curses, often to ingenious effect. The Flame and the Wind (1967), by contrast, is an unusual historical novel set in Roman times, in which a nephew of Pontius Pilate tries to discover the facts about the crucifixion of Jesus.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has noted that in many of Blackburn's novels 'a powerful ambience of Horror derives from a calculated use of material from several genres, including science fiction, often simultaneously; he was a sophisticated, commercial exploiter of Equipoise in fantastic fiction'.[9] His use of science fiction is generally borderline, though not in Children of the Night, which features – in classic sci-fi fashion – an underground lost race, this time with telepathic powers.

Horror novels[

·        A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958)

·        A Sour Apple Tree (1958)

·        Broken Boy (1959)

·        A Ring of Roses (1965)

·        Children of the Night (1966)

·        Nothing But the Night (1968)

·        Bury Him Darkly (1969)

·        Blow the House Down (1970), a non-supernatural story in which a racist architect deliberately designs a building to be a death-trap [12]

·        Devil Daddy (1972)

·        For Fear of Little Men (1972)

·        Our Lady of Pain (1974), based on Elizabeth Bathory, suggested by and dedicated to Christopher Lee

Thrillers

·        Dead Man Running (1960)

·        Bound to Kill (1963)

·        The Winds of Midnight (1964)

·        Murder at Midnight (1964)

·        Packed for Murder (1964)

·        The Reluctant Spy (1966)

·        The Gaunt Woman (1967)

·        Blue Octavo (1967)

·        Colonel Bogus (1969)

·        The Young Man from Lima (1970)

·        The Household Traitors (1971)

·        Deep Among the Dead Men (1973)

·        Mister Brown's Bodies (1975)

·        The Face of the Lion (1976)

·        The Cyclops Goblet (1977)

·        Dead Man's Handle (1978)

·        The Sins of the Father (1979)

·        A Beastly Business (1982)

·        A Book of the Dead (1984)

·        The Bad Penny (1985)

[kevinscottgardens]

1 through 4 January 2019

For New Year’s Eve, I had Susie (who captured the evening beautifully with this shot) and Richard over for a quiet evening of cocktails, Champaign, risotto and a bit of fireworks on the telly. Happy New Year everyone.

I worked New Year’s Day and recorded all plants with at least one open flower. We have had an unseasonably warm autumn and start to winter; the result was 159 plants in flower:

Abutilon × milleri

Acanthus sennii

Ageratina ligustrina

Agrostemma githago

Alstroemeria aurea

Alstroemeria psittacina

Alyssum montanum 'Berggold'

Amicia zygomeris

Anisodontea capensis

Arabis procurrens

Arbutus canariensis

Arbutus unedo f. rubra

Argyranthemum pinnatifidum subsp. pinnatifidum

Bergenia × schmidtii

Bergenia crassifolia

Bidens aurea

Buddleja officinalis

Calendula officinalis

Camellia sinensis

Cestrum parqui

Cestrum psittacinum

Chimonanthus praecox

Chimonanthus praecox Grandiflorus Group

Chrysanthemum 'Kakinomoto'

Cistus creticus

Clematis cirrhosa 'Wisley Cream'

Cobaea scandens

Colletia hystrix 'Rosea'

Colletia paradoxa

Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca 'Citrina'

Correa backhousiana

Cyclamen coum

Dahlia imperialis

Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'

Dasylirion acrotrichum

Descurainia millefolia

Dianthus deltoides

Dianthus gratianopolitanus

Dichroa febrifuga

Drimys winteri

Echium italicum subsp. bieberstenii

Eomecon chionantha

Eranthis hyemalis

Eriobotrya japonica

Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'

Eschscholzia lobbii

Fragaria 'Pink Panda'

Fuchsia 'Hawkshead'

Fuchsia microphylla

Gaillardia aristata

Galanthus 'Armine'

Galanthus 'Art Nouveau'

Galanthus caucasicus

Galanthus cilicicus

Galanthus elwesii

Galanthus elwesii 'Grumpy'

Galanthus elwesii 'Lode Star'

Galanthus elwesii 'Mrs Macnamara'

Galanthus elwesii 'Snowfox'

Galanthus elwesii var. elwesii 'Kite'

Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus Hiemalis Group

Galanthus 'James Backhouse'

Galanthus 'John Gray'

Galanthus 'Lapwing'

Galanthus 'Lavinia'

Galanthus 'Lyn'

Galanthus nivalis

Galanthus nivalis 'Melvillei'

Galanthus plicatus 'Florence Baker'

Galanthus plicatus 'Warham'

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Blanc de Chine'

Galanthus 'Rose Lloyd'

Geranium macrorrhizum

Geum rivale

Halimium lasianthum 'Sandling'

Hebe salicifolia

Hebe stricta

Helichrysum bracteatum

Helleborus × hybridus

Helleborus × hybridus 'Early Purple'

Helleborus × sternii

Helleborus argutifolius

Helleborus cyclophyllus

Helleborus foetidus

Helleborus foetidus 'Wester Flisk'

Helleborus niger

Hoheria sexstylosa

Hyacinthoides aristidis

Hyacinthoides mauritanica

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Sir Joseph Banks'

Iberis amara

Iberis sempervirens

Iris unguicularis

Iris unguicularis 'Walter Butt'

Jasminum mesnyi

Jasminum nudiflorum

Justicia floribunda

Laurus nobilis

Lavandula dentata var. dentata (Grey Leaved Form)

Lavandula minutolii var. minutolii

Leonurus sibiricus

Leucojum aestivum subsp. aestivum

Lithodora zahnii

Loasa triphylla var. vulcanica

Lobelia erinus

Lonicera elisae

Lonicera standishii

Mahonia japonica

Mahonia napaulensis

Medicago arborea

Narcissus bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. conspicuus

Narcissus dubius

Narcissus romieuxii 'Julia Jane'

Nerine bowdenii 'Mark Fenwick'

Nicotiana rustica

Nicotiana tabacum

Nigella sativa

Petasites fragrans

Polemonium reptans

Polyspora indet.

Primula × pruhonicensis

Primula vulgaris

Prunus × subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'

Prunus mume

Ricinus communis 'Carmencita'

Rosa × odorata 'Bengal Crimson'

Rosa 'Ausmas' [GRAHAM THOMAS]

Rosa chinensis 'Veridiflora'

Rosmarinus officinalis

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus'

Ruta graveolens

Salvia 'Amistad'

Salvia atrocyanea

Salvia elegans 'Honey Melon'

Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Bloom’

Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue'

Salvia haenkei 'Prawn Chorus'

Salvia involucrata

Salvia involucrata 'Bethellii'

Salvia keerlii

Salvia longistyla

Salvia 'Phyllis' Fancy'

Salvia stachydifolia

Sarcococca confusa

Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna

Sarcococca hookeriana var. hookeriana

Sarcococca hookeriana var. hookeriana 'Ghorepani'

Sarcococca ruscifolia var. ruscifolia

Scabiosa minoana subsp. minoana

Scrophularia lucida

Senna corymbosa

Stylophorum lasiocarpum

Tagetes lemmonii

Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price'

Vinca difformis

Vinca major

Viola odorata 'Czar'

Westringia fruticosa

I finished reviewing all 20,621 accessions and separating our seeds from our plants. I had no idea it would take a week to do this. I’m happy I did it this way; I am more familiar with the data and aware of so many different ways the database has been used over the years.

We made a huge dent in the pile that needed to be shredded and the compost pile has been moved along so we have an empty bay to start filling.

We are working shorter hours now, down to an average of 35 hours per week, in line with the rest of the staff. It is so civilised and European. Because we work 39 hours per week in the summer, we now finish at 15.30 Monday through Thursday and 13.00 on Friday. I’m very happy with these longer weekend. I will be able to take a much earlier train to the continent for weekend jaunts.

Plant of the week

Lamiaceae Rotheca myricoides (Hochst.) Steane & Mabb.

common name(s) - butterfly bush, blue glory bower, blue butterfly bush, butterfly clerodendrum, blue glory bower, blue glorybower, blue cat's whiskers synonym(s) - Clerodendrum dekindtii Gürke; C. d. var. dinteri Thomas; C. myricoides (Hochst.) R.Br. ex Vatke; C. m. var. camporum Gürke; C. m. var. chartaceum Moldenke; C. m. var. grossiserratum Gürke; C. m. var. involutum B.Thomas; C. m. f. lanceolatilobatum R.Fern.; C. m. var. laxum Gürke; C. m. var. microphyllum Gürke; C. m. var. savanorum (De Wild.) B.Thomas; C. neumayeri Vatke; C. savanorum De Wild.; C. schlechteri Gürke; C. sylvaticum (Hochst.) Briq.; C. ugandense Prain; Cyclonema myricoides Hochst.; C. sylvaticum Hochst.; Cyrtostemma myricoides (Hochst.) Kunze; Rotheca myricoides f. lanceolatilobata (R.Fern.) R.Fern.; R. m. subsp. myricoides; Siphonanthus myricoides (Hochst.) Hiern; Spironema myricoides Hochst. conservation rating - none native to - Kenya, Uganda location - glasshouse four, accession _____ leaves - glabrous, elliptic to narrow-obovate, glossy bright green, serrate margins, wedge-shaped bases flowers - showy, five-petaled flowers bloom June to September, showy, curved, outward-arching, purple stamens (resembling butterfly antennae); black, fleshy fruit follows habit - suckering evergreen shrub with a somewhat open habit to 2m tall and 2m wide habitat - in thickets in rocky places, along streams and at the edges of evergreen forest, to 1,700m pests - aphids, whitefly, mealybugs, scale, spider mites disease - leaf spot hardiness - to 1ºC (H2) soil - organically rich, evenly moist, well-drained sun - full sun to part shade propagation - seed, cuttings pruning - prune stems hard to the ground in early spring if compact plant form is desired nomenclature - Lamiaceae - the mint or deadnettle family, gullet, the name in Pliny refers to the gaping mouth of the corolla; Rotheca - Latinisation of the Malayalam ചെറിയ തേക്ക് words cheriga meaning small and thekku meaning teak; myricoides - from the French myriades meaning ten thousand and a Latinization of the Greek –oides meaning to see; resembling Myrica

References, bibliography:

Flora of Zimbabwe [online] https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=149090 [31 Dec 18]

Gledhill, David, (2008) The Names of Plants, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [31 Dec 18]

Missouri Botanical Garden [online] http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a496 [31 Dec 18]

Plant List, The [online] http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-179968 [31 Dec 18]

[unanchored-ship]

so this is William's time with my stoopid headcanons might have to zoom in to read stuff

heres a color coded version if the arrows are too confusing lol

hang on just to be sure the dark teal arrow from Fenwick is directed at Marly not Prior's arrow okay thanks

but then again it could also work since Fentwink doesnt like William

[scotianostra]

July 7th 1575 saw “The Raid of the Redeswire”

This has a number of names, The battle of Carter’s Bar, The Redswire Fray being another two, it has been described as a skirmish in what should have been a run-of-the-mill Warden’s meeting had been arranged between John Carmichael, the Keeper of Liddesdale, and the English Middle March Warden, Sir John Forster. It’s also been described as the last major battle between Scotland and England, I would hardly call it a battle, although we (The Scots) did give them a good beating that day!.

There would have been fines to be paid, men to be handed over to answer for their crimes, and paperwork to be exchanged. It is unlikely that either side had considered an all-out fight. Things seems to have gone well enough, until the case of one individual was raised. Carmichael demanded that he was handed over, Forster denied knowledge of his whereabouts, which was not believed. Insults were exchanged and then the entire meeting descended into violence. The skirmish seemed to have gone the Scots way due to the the fact that the English mainly fought with bows and swords, but the Scots were armed with firearms as well as more traditional weapons.

Walter Scott wrote about the Skirmish n the first edition of the Minstrelsy of 1802

“Some gaed to drink and some stude still And some to cards and dice them sped Till on ane Farnstein they fyled a bill And he was fugitive and fled. Then was there nought but bow and speir And every man pulled out a brand; "A Schafton and a Fenwick” thare: Gude Symington was slain frae hand.“

Farnstein, is said to be the man the English were after, however local tradition states that it was a man by the name of Henry Robson, official papers of the time don’t identify the man.

Anyway the story goes that the Scots were forced to retreat, but during their flight they met up with another group from Jedburgh, who were late to the meeting.This gave the Scots an advantage. They began to break the English lines and in time, the English were routed. The English second in command, George Heron was killed, along with his brother John and 23 other Englishmen. Forster and several other nobles were captured, and the Scots conducted an impromptu raid, taking 300 cattle from local farms., well it would be rude not to!

Prisoners were taken by the Scots, and brought to James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, who was the regent for King James VI. This soon became embarrassing for the Scots, as the prisoners, who were being held at Dalkeith Castle, had likely been taken for their ransom value, although Douglas stated that it was to keep them from being killed in the heat of battle.[He wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth describing the events, but she was outraged and sent William Killigrew to demand immediate satisfaction from the Earl of Morton. Douglas was directed to meet with George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, who was the lieutenant of the northern counties, to work out the details, and the two men were able to come to an amicable solution, as Douglas didn’t want to anger Elizabeth, and she wanted to avoid a war.

Forster and the others had been treated with kindness and were released with gifts and an apology for being held.

Carmichael was delivered to York as a prisoner for trial, but was acquitted as the English court found that Forster had engaged in an unprovoked attack.

The picture shows a monument known as the Redeswire Stone built in commemoration of the battle. It reads, "On this ridge, June 7th, 1575 was fought one of the last border raids, known as The Raid of the Redeswire”

[docrotten]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) - Episode 71 - Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

"My God, Henry! What you've done ... it's satanic!"  In this case, the Henry being referred to is Dr. Henry Jekyll as played by Jack Palance. Join this episode’s Grue Crew - Chad Hunt, Joseph Perry, Whitney Collazo, and Jeff Mohr - as they get strange with the Dan Curtis version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 71 – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

IMDb

  Director: Charles Jarrott

Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson (novella), Ian McLellan Hunter (teleplay)

Music: Bob Cobert (as Robert Cobert)

Makeup Department: Dick Smith (makeup artist: Mr. Palance)

Cast

Jack Palance as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

Denholm Elliott as Mr. George Devlin

Leo Genn as Dr. Lanyon

Torin Thatcher as Sir John Turnbull

Rex Sevenoaks as Dr. Wright

Gillie Fenwick as Poole

Elizabeth Cole as Hattie

Duncan Lamont as Sergeant Grimes

Paul Harding as Constable Johnson

Oskar Homolka as Stryker

Billie Whitelaw as Gwyn Thomas

Tessie O'Shea as Tessie O'Toole

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the fifth TV-movie produced by Dan Curtis and covered by a Decades of Horror Grue-Crew, and it doesn’t disappoint. Jeff chose this film because the visage of Jack Palance in Dick Smith’s makeup as Mr. Hyde and his maniacal, cackling laugh, have stuck with him for over fifty years since he first saw it on the small screen. For Chad, this version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella leaps into second place behind the 1932 release starring Fredric March. High praise, indeed. Whitney enjoyed the film but, in terms of the makeup for Mr. Hyde, thinks that when viewed through a modern-day lens, it looks like a botched Botox encounter. The 2-hour length gave Joseph pause, but after viewing the film, he marveled at the pacing and even flow of the story.

Your Decades of Horror Classic Era Grue-Crew gives The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a strong recommendation. As of this writing, it is available to stream on Amazon Prime and on DVD from MPI Home Video.

For more films produced by Dan Curtis and discussed on Decades of Horror, go back and check out these episodes from Decades of Horror 1970s:

Episode 61 - Dracula (1974)

Episode 76 - Burnt Offerings (1976)

Episode 84 - The Night Stalker (1972)

Episode 87 - The Night Strangler (1973)

Episode 108 - Trilogy of Terror (1975)

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era is part of the Decades of Horror 3-week rotation with the 1970s and 1980s. In three weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be the science fiction-horror classic, Invaders from Mars (1953).

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans:  leave them a message or leave a comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of us, “Thank you so much for listening!”

Check out this episode!

[lookintomyeyeblog]

Hình ảnh phụ nữ và trẻ em đáng yêu trong tranh của họa sĩ James Archer

James Archer là một nghệ sĩ cuối thế kỷ 19 người Scotland. Ông chuyên về vẽ chân dung, phong cảnh, thể hiện cuộc sống hàng ngày, phong cảnh đẹp và cảnh quan lịch sử. Chân dung phụ nữ và trẻ em trong tranh của ông rất đáng yêu.

Archer được sinh ra ở Edinburgh, Vương quốc Anh, vào ngày 10 tháng 6 năm 1822. được giáo dục tại Trường Trung học Hoàng gia và học tại Học viện Trustee ở Edinburgh. Năm 1840, ông được nhận làm sinh viên tại Học viện Hoàng gia Scotland, dưới sự hướng dẫn của Sir William Allan và Thomas Duncan (cả hai đều là những họa sĩ người Scotland nổi tiếng) và lần đầu tiên Archer được trưng bày tranh ở đó vào năm 1842, với bức tranh theo chủ đề Kinh thánh, "Đứa trẻ St. John ở nơi hoang dã" (The Child St John in the Wilderness).

[caption id="attachment_1236256" align="aligncenter" width="501"] Chân dung tự họa của họa sĩ James Archer. [/caption]

Ông trở thành giảng viên trợ giảng của học viện vào năm 1850, và Viện sĩ hàn lâm vào năm 1858. Archer làm công việc vẽ với sơn dầu, bút chì và phấn, và khi bắt đầu sự nghiệp chuyên về vẽ chân dung, tác phẩm nổi tiếng nhất của ông bao gồm tranh trẻ em và người mặc trang phục kiểu cách theo chủ đề - trên thực tế, ông là họa sĩ thời Victoria đầu tiên vẽ các bức chân dung trẻ em mặc các trang phục cầu kỳ.

[caption id="attachment_1236258" align="aligncenter" width="437"] Ảnh: Fine Art America[/caption]

Năm 1849 đánh dấu việc ông chuyển sang đề tài lịch sử với bức tranh 'Bữa tối cuối cùng' được triển lãm tại Học viện Hoàng gia Scotland. Về sau ông thường vẽ các tranh mô tả các cảnh được lấy từ văn học hoặc truyền thuyết phổ biến vào thời điểm đó, như của đại văn hào Shakespeare và Vua Arthur. Năm 1864, ông chuyển đến London và quay lại với đam mê ban đầu là vẽ chân dung.

[caption id="attachment_1236263" align="aligncenter" width="392"] 'Emelye'. 1866. Ảnh: Wikiart[/caption]

Vào những năm 1880, Archer đã tới Hoa Kỳ và Ấn Độ, vẽ chân dung, phong cảnh và con người trong trang phục. Ông mất năm 1904 ở tuổi 82, để lại cho hậu thế khoảng 60 tác phẩm mà ông đã sáng tác trong suốt cuộc đời.

[caption id="attachment_1236265" align="aligncenter" width="469"] 'Chân dung cụ ngoại của tôi', 1865. Ảnh: Garden of Praise[/caption]

Dưới đây là một số tranh chân dung phụ nữ và trẻ em đặc sắc, với những bộ cánh đẹp đẽ, vẽ bởi James Archer, mời các bạn cùng chiêm ngưỡng:

[caption id="attachment_1236266" align="aligncenter" width="350"] 'Misses Agnes và Margaret Perigal'. Ảnh: ARC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236267" align="aligncenter" width="507"] 'Rosalind và Celia'. Khoảng 1854-1858. Ảnh: Book and Art / tumblr[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236271" align="aligncenter" width="431"] Bạn chọn tay nào? 1877. Ảhh: Ocean's Bridge[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236273" align="aligncenter" width="421"] 'Mary Carrie'. 1869. Ảnh: Pinterest[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236274" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Chiếc váy đỏ. Ảnh: ARC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236276" align="aligncenter" width="426"] Chân dung của cô Rose Fenwick. 1877. Ảnh: Beverly A Mitchell[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236279" align="aligncenter" width="350"] 'Theodore Roden Fothergill của nhà Lowbridge'. 1874. Ảnh: ARC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236280" align="aligncenter" width="438"] 'Jeannette Emmet'. 1884. Ảnh: Wikipedia[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236281" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Chân dung một cậu bé. Ảnh: ARC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236284" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Caroline Philips, quý bà Trevelyan và con trai, Charles. 1871. Ảnh: ARC[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1236285" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Cô gái du mục. Ảnh: ARC[/caption]

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Press release: Industry-led Retail Sector Council launched to act as champion for future growth

The new industry-led Council will seek to encourage growth and positive change in the sector as it adapts to rapidly changing consumer habits.

The first industry-led Retail Sector Council was officially launched today (7 March 2018) by Retail Minister Andrew Griffiths and Richard Pennycook, Chairman of Fenwick, The Hut Group and Howden Joinery Group.

The Council will meet regularly with industry to discuss the challenges the sector faces. They will review how best retailers could adapt to changing consumer behaviour, the business environment and opportunities such as the development of new technologies to improve customer service, the chances to grow skills through a sector push on high-value training and ways to boost sector productivity and its economic health.

Senior management from Boots, Amazon and other renowned retailers will sit on the Council as well as the British Retail Consortium. Together, with government, they will provide expert advice to the sector and contribute to its future direction.

Retail Minister Andrew Griffiths said:

The UK’s retail sector is undergoing rapid structural changes with consumers increasingly favouring online shopping and rising operating costs for retailers.

Our new collaborative Retail Sector Council will bring government and industry together to look at how best to ensure the industry adapts to meet the changing demands of consumers.

Richard Pennycook, co-chair of the Retail Sector Council:

I am delighted to be co-chairing the first Retail Sector Council, which comes at a moment of unprecedented change for our sector. Retail is one of the largest private sector employers in the country, and the Council will provide strategic oversight of the challenges we are facing by seeking positive change and increased productivity.

“We will be working together with industry and government to deliver our vision for the future of retail.

The UK’s retail sector is a driving force in the economy and essential to our high streets, local and regional communities. The formation of the council follows other government action to create a Britain fit for the future including the government’s response to the independent Taylor Review, which ensures employment law and practices keep pace with the modern ways of working, and its ambitious Industrial Strategy which sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of businesses and people throughout the UK.

In 2016, the retail sector added a gross value of £94.6 billion to the UK economy; the new Council will aim to address key sector issues including skills and increasing productivity.

Notes to editors

Retail Sector Council members:

Andrew Griffiths, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility, Co-Chair, Retail Council

Richard Pennycook, Co-Chair, Retail Council, Chairman of Fenwick, The Hut Group and Howden Joinery Group and previously CEO of the Co-operative Group. Richard is also Chair of the British Retail Consortium and lead non-executive board member of the Department for Education

Doug Gurr, UK Country Manager, Amazon

Sir Charlie Mayfield, Chairman, John Lewis Partnership

Elizabeth Fagan, Senior Vice President, Managing Director Boots UK & ROI

Nick Beighton, CEO, ASOS

Ursula Lidbetter, CEO, Lincolnshire Cooperative

John Hannett, General Secretary, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

Diane Savory, Chair, GFirst LEP

Victoria Robertshaw, CEO, Keelham Farm Shop

Helen Dickinson, CEO, British Retail Consortium

James Lowman, CEO, Association of Convenience Stores