War of the Roses
On Saturday 4th May 1471 the final battle in the War of the Roses took place in Tewkesbury. To commemorate this two 5 metre high sculptures will be installed at Stonehills roundabout, the A38 southern entry to the town. You can see the production of these sculptures by watching my monthly videos. March is the first month.
Memorial To Pearly King (1934)
Full title reads: MEMORIAL TO PEARLY KING - Statue to Henry Croft unveiled at St. Pancras Cemetery.
London.
Pan across the crowds gathered at St. Pancras Cemetery for the ceremony of unveiling of the statue to Henry Croft - the first pearly King. A group of pearlies is seen at the front. Pan across a group of pearlies listening to a man speaking. Same man - a priest, unveils the statue. Statue and the priest next to it. A girl places flowers at the base of the statue.
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Coronation 60th Anniversary All People that on earth do Dwell arr Ralph Vaughan Williams
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The ashes of Ralph Vaughan Williams, eminent British composer, and his second wife Ursula are buried in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Herbert Howells and Charles Villiers Stanford. All the music played at his burial service was selected according to his known wish. He composed a new anthem for the unveiling of the Battle of Britain memorial chapel in the Abbey in 1947 and arranged the setting of the hymn All people that on earth do dwell for the 1953 coronation (the first occasion on which a congregational hymn had been sung at a coronation). The slate gravestone was originally cut by sculptor Reynolds Stone but in 1965 it was re-cut and filled with white marble for better preservation. The inscription reads:
1872
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
OM
1958
and a small white stone adjoining his just gives the initials for his widow UVW with a cross.She was buried on 21 April 2008.
Vaughan Williams was born on 12 October 1872 at Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, a son of the Revd. Arthur Vaughan Williams and his wife Margaret (Wedgwood). He attended Charterhouse School and studied at the Royal College of Music under Hubert Parry and Walter Parratt. After university he was a pupil of Charles Stanford. In 1897 he married Adeline Fisher. He became the leading British composer of his generation, writing songs, instrumental works, choral works and symphonies. During the 1914-18 war he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an ambulance orderly and later served at the Somme. Declining a knighthood he was made a member of the Order of Merit. In 1953 he married his second wife Ursula Wood (1911-2007). He died on 26 August 1958.
A photo of the gravestones can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library.
Further reading:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004.
The best of both worlds. A life of Sir William McKie by H.Hollis, 1991
Epping Forest | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:10 1 History
00:01:18 1.1 Early history to 17th century
00:02:49 1.2 Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
00:03:35 1.3 Fighting enclosure
00:04:58 1.4 The People's Forest
00:07:38 2 Geography
00:08:40 3 Ecology
00:11:03 4 Lakes and ponds
00:11:52 5 Leisure activities
00:15:11 6 Visitor centres
00:15:36 7 Public transport
00:16:33 8 Cultural associations
00:17:00 8.1 Fine art
00:17:47 8.2 Literature
00:21:53 8.3 Music
00:22:40 8.4 Television
00:23:49 8.5 Cinema
00:24:10 9 Crime
00:25:01 9.1 Murders
00:28:52 10 See also
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Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare (5,900-acre) area of ancient woodland between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the City of London Corporation. An area of 1,728 hectares (4,270 acres) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation. It gives its name to the Epping Forest local government district, which covers part of it.
The forest is approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) long in the north-south direction, but no more than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from east to west at its widest point, and in most places considerably narrower. It lies on a ridge between the valleys of the rivers Lea and Roding. It contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, rivers, bogs and ponds, and its elevation and thin gravelly soil (the result of glaciation) historically made it unsuitable for agriculture.
Great Englishwomen Audiobook by M.B. Synge | Audiobook with Subtitles
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the education and living conditions of the poor. Some were great painters, poets, and writers. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)
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00:47:11 | 05 - Margaret of Anjou
00:58:26 | 06 - The Lady Margaret
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01:20:44 | 08 - Lady Jane Grey
01:35:37 | 09 - Princess Elizabeth
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English Reformation | Wikipedia audio article
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English Reformation
00:03:16 1 Background
00:03:25 1.1 Henry VIII: marriages and desire for a male heir
00:07:20 1.2 Parliamentary debate and legislation
00:08:40 1.3 Actions by Henry against English clergy
00:11:02 1.4 Further legislative acts
00:15:18 2 Early reform movements
00:21:29 3 Henrician Reformation
00:21:39 3.1 Moderate reform
00:27:04 3.2 Dissolution of the monasteries
00:32:06 3.3 Reformation reversed
00:39:09 4 Edward's Reformation
00:44:34 5 Marian Restoration
00:49:21 6 Elizabethan Settlement
00:52:34 6.1 Act of Supremacy 1558
00:54:58 6.2 Act of Uniformity 1558
00:59:18 6.3 Puritans and Roman Catholics
01:04:12 7 Legacy
01:05:43 8 Historiography
01:09:16 9 See also
01:09:35 10 Notes
01:09:44 10.1 Historiography
01:11:34 10.2 Primary sources
01:12:10 11 Further reading
01:16:10 12 External links
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The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. These events were, in part, associated with the wider process of the European Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity across western and central Europe during this period. Many factors contributed to the process: the decline of feudalism and the rise of nationalism, the rise of the common law, the invention of the printing press and increased circulation of the Bible, and the transmission of new knowledge and ideas among scholars, the upper and middle classes and readers in general. However, the various phases of the English Reformation, which also covered Wales and Ireland, were largely driven by changes in government policy, to which public opinion gradually accommodated itself.
Based on Henry VIII's desire for an annulment of his marriage (first requested of Pope Clement VII in 1527), the English Reformation was at the outset more of a political affair than a theological dispute. The reality of political differences between Rome and England allowed growing theological disputes to come to the fore. Until the break with Rome, it was the Pope and general councils of the Church that decided doctrine. Church law was governed by canon law with final jurisdiction in Rome. Church taxes were paid straight to Rome, and the Pope had the final word in the appointment of bishops.
The break with Rome was effected by a series of acts of Parliament passed between 1532 and 1534, among them the 1534 Act of Supremacy, which declared that Henry was the Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England. (This title was renounced by Mary I in 1553 in the process of restoring papal jurisdiction; when Elizabeth I reasserted the royal supremacy in 1559, her title was Supreme Governor.) Final authority in doctrinal and legal disputes now rested with the monarch, and the papacy was deprived of revenue and the final say on the appointment of bishops.
The theology and liturgy of the Church of England became markedly Protestant during the reign of Henry's son Edward VI largely along lines laid down by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Under Mary, the whole process was reversed and the Church of England was again placed under papal jurisdiction. Soon after, Elizabeth reintroduced the Protestant faith but in a more moderate manner. The structure and theology of the church was a matter of fierce dispute for generations.
The violent aspect of these disputes, manifested in the English Civil Wars, ended when the last Roman Catholic monarch, James II, was deposed, and Parliament asked William III and Mary II to rule jointly in conjunction with the English Bill of Rights in 1688 (in the Glorious Revolution), from which emerged a church polity with an established church and a number of non-conformist churches whose members at first suffered various civil disabilities that were removed over time. The legacy of the past Roman Catholic Establishment remained an issue for some ...