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Oct 22, 20215 min read

Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam

Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...

Sep 20, 20216 min read

Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure

Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Aug 28, 20213 min read

Aug 24 Start of Non-conformism

On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...

Jun 28, 20214 min read

June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...

Apr 27, 20213 min read

Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost

Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...

Jan 31, 20214 min read

Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence

Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...

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