Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By Nikolay Koshelev (1840-1918), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain
St Bede says that Christ’s Transfiguration should remind us that we live in two worlds at the same time.
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© Christine Matthews, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Henry VII must decide how to deal with a boy calling himself ‘King Edward VI’.
Bodleian Collections, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir Walter Scott warned that schoolchildren must not expect to be entertained all the time.
By Friedrich August von Kloeber (1793-1864), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Everyone wanted to know who Beethoven’s favourite composer was.
Unknown Artist, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1837 William Sterndale Bennett, then regarded as England’s most exciting young composer, made history in quite another... field.
By Steven van der Meulen (d. 1568), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir James Melville eavesdrops on Queen Elizabeth I’s music practice, and incurs Her Majesty’s displeasure.