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4 days ago · Letchworth Garden City is in lockdown; Chipping Campden, where C R Ashbee and his Guild and School of Handicraft settled in 1902, is deserted except for the Arts & Crafts museum, which to Vitaliev ...
5 days ago · A new organ was installed in 1908: it was built by P. A. Conacher & Co. and its case, elaborate and with medieval and 17th-century motifs designed by C. R. Ashbee, was made by the Campden Guild in 1907. In the early 15th century the church had three silver-gilt chalices and other plate.
2 days ago · Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 to 1942) Charles Robert Ashbee was born in London, the son of a prosperous city merchant. Educated at Wellington College and King's College, Cambridge, he was articled to G. F. Bodley. He became a designer and follower of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
4 days ago · Impatient with in-studio costumed history paintings and stuffed-shirt portraits of the establishment elite, artists since the 19c have sought to discover more authentic subjects and more inspiring …
4 days ago · Home. Survey of London: Volume 1, Bromley-By-Bow. Describes the parish of Bromley, including the church of St. Mary, the manor houses, and the Old Palace of Bromley. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the circumstances in which the Survey was founded. Survey of London . This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
2 days ago · George Malcolm (1917–1997), Pianist, Cembalist, Dirigent und Komponist. Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803–1888), Pionier der Bergsteigerei und Schriftsteller. James Mallet (* 1955), Evolutionsbiologe und Entomologe. Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown (* 1953), Politiker und stellvertretender Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen.
4 days ago · Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer".
