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  • ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

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    As the value of music education is again a topic of societal debate, Tudor composer William Byrd, the four hundredth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year, was a powerful advocate of singing in early modern England, writes Katherine Butler. Tudor composer William Byrd (c.1540–1623) is recognised today not only...
    ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing
  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)

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    Jack Cunningham considers a medieval philosopher, the significance of whose ideas has grown in importance through the centuries. An appreciation of Grosseteste the thinker has not always been at its appropriate level during the almost 800 years since his death. If historians have paid attention to the great man this ...
    Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)
  • History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner

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    History Painting is defined in Grove's Dictionary of Art as the ‘depiction of several persons engaged in an important or memorable action, usually taken from a written source.' Though History Painters as important as Rubens and Van Dyke worked - in Van Dyke's case for nine years - in England,...
    History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner
  • 'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

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    Colin Haydon explores religious intolerance and conflict in an English village. In recent years, many historians have explored the subject of religious intolerance, and particularly anti-Catholic sentiment, in early modern and modern England. The political allegiance of ‘Papists’ was suspect: was not their allegiance to the Pope – to ‘another...
    'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800
  • Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

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    R. J. Knecht suggests that the 'Black Legend' may not be quite as unfair to Catherine as her defenders have argued. Few historical figures have aroused as much passionate controversy as Catherine de’ Medici who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559 and several times regent before her death...
    Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion
  • Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

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    On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Philip II’s death James Casey rejects the traditional portrayal of the Spanish ruler as a cruel despot and argues his achievements were more the result of an extraordinary sense of duty fully in tune with the hopes and aspirations of his people....
    Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King