Kate Bennett

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

Not really.

Why? I suppose we could call the Sheldonian Theatre the Degree Building.

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.

It is an absolute disgrace

This, friends, is your new diary.

Lol

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I’m planning to read the OUP Congreve edition in the garden…

Diddly squat indeed!

It’s WILTSHIRE, Peter!

Photograph of a man in early-18th century clothing in a glass case at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Finally saw this in person earlier this week at the NPG in London: a figure of EIC governor Joseph Collet (ca. 1716), made by the Chinese sculptor 'Amoy Chinqua' from unfired clay on bamboo. Collet sent it home to England to his daughters as an 'image of himself'. #skystorians #earlymodern

It’s so good never to have to read Spenser ever again. Urgh.

He accused him of early rising, too

So true. He’s not Milton, or Pope. He’s more of a scrapbook. Or maybe I just prefer later writers…

“Spenser dispenser”….

Rosemary Hill · At the Driehaus Museum: Tulips, Fritillaries and Auriculas Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please...

‘It was in itself a perverse choice for an artist in the 1960s to take up flower painting, so far out of fashion as to be invisible from the modernist avant-garde.’

Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’ve had a whole six months of that

Obsessed with this painting. There wasn’t that view in the gallery, that’s invented—which is intriguing

That’s glorious

Popped into Magdalen library today and there was the Nuremberg Chronicle, surrounded by admirers. It’s pretty special. Here is a locust plague enjoying their moment in the sun…

Blaise Metreweli photographed in front of a blue-green background, her body turned slightly away to the right. Blaise is dressed in a pale top. She has short blonde hair and blue eyes.

Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position.

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Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP

🦊 Our fox got my new leather gardening gloves, bit off the finger tips and shoved them at the back of a border. They’re all the same. My cat thinks he’s a hero and follows him around.

Alexander Pope died #OTD in 1744.

Heroes and Kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet sleep;
Who never flatter’d folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.

In my college, there’s a jigsaw outside the library for soothing downtime. It is a super-tricky one, and I assume its purpose is to encourage slackers back to their books!

It was done a while back at one of the colleges, and a video was made in which the JCR representatives were seen taking delivery of the alpacas from a handler. She advised them that the animals were very sensitive & easily alarmed…

Alexander Pope was born #OTD in 1688 (OS). No poet has ever surpassed his ability to craft a line. To Lord Byron, Pope was ‘the most faultless of poets’. Eliot: ‘Unless we are able to enjoy the work of Pope, we cannot arrive at a full understanding of English poetry.’

Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799. Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum

Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799. Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum

Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799. Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum

Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799.
Natural History Museum London | Cardiff Museum | Lyme Regis Museum

Rosemary Hill · At the Miho Museum: Habits of Seeing A visit to the Miho Museum has none of the razzmatazz of the Met or the Louvre. There are no queues or crowds. From the...

‘From the fifth-century legend of a mysterious peach blossom valley, the origin of the Western notion of Shangri­La, they began to conceive the idea of a treasure house hidden among mountains.’

Rosemary Hill visits the Miho Museum:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...