Literature
Jane Austen Centre in Bath
Family members of Jane Austen…and why not a visit to the Regency Architecture of Bath and a visit to the Jane Austen Centre as well?
Read MoreJane Austen’s House and Museum at Chawton Hants
It was Chawton where Jane spent the last 8 years of her life in the grace and favour small house provided by the generosity of her brother Edward Austen. Now the location of the Jane Austen House Museum
Read MoreJane Austen was born 1775 Steventon Hants
Jane Austen possibly the greatest female writer of all time and one of the top 5 of both men and women, well thats what the distinguished critic F R Leavis believed…
Read MoreNewton states laws of motion and gravity in Principia Mathematica 1686-1687
Newtorn’s major work impacts on thinking of the Enlightenment’s philosophers and social reform…the world is not the centre of the universe!
Read MoreJane Austen lived in Henrietta Street, just a mapped snippet 1813-1814
There is a blue plaque confirming the details on the fascia of the building, the address is 10 Henrietta Street Westminster, London WC2E 8, UK United Kingdom. Jane Austen lived here briefly between 1813-1814
Read MoreVoltaire Champions English Values in Philosophical letters 1734
Voltaire escapes to England and uses a discourse on English Society to attack the lack of religious tolerance in France, early in the period of enlightenment…
Read MoreDescartes Discourse on the Method 1637
The pursuit of incontrovertible truth…by Descartes
Read MorePhrenology- a Victorian obsession?
In 1824, George Combe’s ‘Elements of Phrenology’ was published. Phrenology was the identification of an individual’s faculties by feeling the shape of the skull. It was argued by Franz Joseph Gall, an Austrian physician, along with Johann Spurzheim that mind and brain were connected, in a way that, different characteristics of mind, would give different…
Read MoreThe Age of Reason…dawns
The dawning of the age of reason, how would it impact on our families lives and those of the communities our relatives lived in…
Read MoreCharles Dickens – supporter of Ragged Schools
In 1843, Charles Dickens visited the Field Lane Ragged School and was so shocked and moved by what he saw there, he decided to write a pamphlet about it. Instead though he penned ‘A Christmas Carol’ as he thought he could reach more people through a novel. An intriguing connection is that John Pounds set…
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