Railway travel for pleasure is, from recent experience having much of a revival. I regularly take the train from Paddington to Cornwall. Last year, I encountered a pensioner, whose holiday’s central feature was to travel from Inverness (the station connects by bus to John O’Groats) to Land’s End. “How long do you spend at the [...]
YORK has more up its sleeve for this 2012 year. While the city is celebrating its 800th York Minster anniversary, it is also delighted to host the York Mystery Plays for the first time in twenty years. For the month of August, York Theatre Royal, Riding Lights Theatre Company, and Olivier award winning playwright Mike [...]
800 years ago, York Minster received its Royal Charter by King John in 1212, allowing York to control its own affairs. To celebrate, they are releasing the 8 Wonders campaign to show how York Minster has influenced the city over the last eight centuries. The campaign starts on 1 April Palm Sunday and will [...]
THE LAST of the stained glass windows that used to be in the Depot Royal Marine Church when the Marines were in barracks at Deal have been installed in the church of St Alban at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre at Lympstone in Devon. The windows were being stored on Whale Island, Portsmouth, for [...]
National Theatre King James Bible 8 October – 6 November In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Book that changed the world, an ensemble of leading actors will read twelve extracts from the King James Bible. Casting includes Nancy Carroll, Alan Howard, Paterson Joseph, Alex Jennings, Maureen Lipman, Patricia Routledge, John Shrapnel and Simon [...]
The Faith of the English Nigel Rooms SPCK, pb, £12.99 Nigel Rooms has come to the same conclusion many other overseas missionaries have reached on returning home to the UK: the church here needs to be as keen to relate the gospel to the local culture as the church in Africa or the Pacific. But [...]
Sir John Gilbert exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery until August 28 2011 Art lovers and devotees of the Victorian Age are indebted to the Guildhall Art Gallery for its ongoing project to revive interest in neglected 19th-century English artists. Its current exhibition presents the work of Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), lauded in his day as [...]
Until September 11. Admission: £15.50, concessions available Streamers of paint pirouette with curious figures and strange symbols, creating playful patterns across the canvas, leaving the viewer to puzzle the meaning. For the art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), leading Spanish Surrealist painter, designer, graphic artist, and worker in ceramics, while often magical and fantastical, also often [...]
The Archbishop of York has paid tribute to Prince Philip on his 90th birthday. Dr John Sentamu said that in his devotion, duty and loyalty in his service to the nation the Duke had been a “model example to us all.” Speaking in the House of Lords hours after he was discharged from hospital following [...]
Aesthetic Movement exhibition The Victoria & Albert Museum until 17 July 2011 The mid to late 19th century saw a revolution across the world of art and design, transforming attitudes towards art and paving the way for the Modern movement. Visions of young women in Classical robes of flaming orange and shining white, neo-decadent versions [...]
