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By Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857–1915), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
On realising that he had the edge on his rivals, music publisher John Brand moved quickly to secure one of Haydn’s peerless Quartets.
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By Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.
After Thomas Miles Richardson (1784-1848), via the British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.
By an anonymous artist, via the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.
From the Tyne and Wear Archives. Public domain.
... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.
By James Bretherton (?1730-1806), after William Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In the opening lines of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, the narrator explains the perverse whim that led him to leave his home shores behind.
By Jan Siberechts (1627-?1703), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1720, Welsh promoter William Howell opened a pleasure garden at Belsize House, but the pleasures drew the magistrates’ frowns.