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Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism
03/06/2021 From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history, costume history, the history of food and furniture, of Gothic architecture, theatre and much else were explored as never before. Antiquarianism, the study of the material remains of the past, was not new, but now hundreds of men - and some women - became antiquaries and set about rediscovering their national history, in Britain, France and Germany. The Romantic age valued facts, but it also valued imagination and it brought both to the study of history. Among its achievements were the preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the analysis and dating of Gothic architecture, and the first publication of Beowulf. It dispelled old myths, and gave us new ones: Shakespeare's birthplace, clan tartans and the arrow in Harold's eye are among their legacies. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making. |
"Cabaret Mechanical Theatre: Paul Spooner and Rosemary Hill"
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL Thursday 5 September 2019 19:00-20:00 Working in the almost extinct profession of automatist, Paul Spooner has been relentlessly making small, intricately engineered mechanical playthings, mostly of wood. He will be in conversation about his endlessly fascinating work with Rosemary Hill, architectural historian and contributing editor at the London Review of Books, who first encountered his work in the 1980s and has admired it ever since. Tickets available HERE and more information at the link above. 
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Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter
2015 and Kindle As with the night-scented stock, the full splendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potently at twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, blooms in all its glory. Despite being one of the most influential – and best-loved – of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a period in which Carter began to explore the themes that dominated her later work: magic, the reworking of myths and their darker sides, and the overturning of literary and social conventions. With imagery at times startling in its violence and disconcerting in its presentation of sexuality, Unicorn provides compelling insight into the formation of a remarkable imagination. In the essay that accompanies the poems the critic and historian Rosemary Hill considers them in the context of Carter’s other work and as an aspect of the 1960s, the decade which as Carter put it ‘wasn’t like they say in the movies’. Read about how Rosemary Hill came to write this book, in an article published by The Guardian HERE. |
ARTICLES ON-LINE
London Review of Books
http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/rosemary-hill The Times Literary Supplement http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/ Things Magazine http://www.thingsmagazine.net |
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Stonehenge
2008 (p/b 2009) and Kindle ‘Stylish, thoughtful, miraculously condensed and as full of knowledge as a megalith is full of megalith’ John Carey ‘Astute and very funny’ Candida Lycett Green ‘The standard introduction to the monument for professionals and amateurs.’ Andy Letcher ‘Unique…the first female Stonehenge author in over…five centuries.’ John Michell |
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God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
2007 (p/b 2008) and Kindle ‘An outstanding biography…the picture is unforgettable’ Alan Hollinghurst ‘Hill uncovers Pugin’s passionate life in full for the first time’ Claire Tomalin ‘A very remarkable book about a very remarkable man…it will interest not only those who delight in architecture, but also anyone who is interested in the Victorian age.’ A N Wilson |
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘Everyday Madness by Lisa Appignanesi review - an unsteady journey from grief to love’, The Guardian, 14 September, 2018
‘Everyday Madness by Lisa Appignanesi review - an unsteady journey from grief to love’, The Guardian, 14 September, 2018
‘Inventing the Modern Home: St Marie’s Grange and Pugin’s houses’, Country Life, 29 August, 2012
A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of All Souls College, Sunday 7 November 2010
‘Pugin’s Churches’, Architectural History, 49, 2006
Pugin and Ramsgate, 1999 and 2004, Pugin Society
‘Pugin’s Small Houses’, Architectural History, 46, 2003
‘Pugin and Ruskin’, British Art Journal, II, 3, 2001 (republished in a revised and expanded version in Ruskin and Architecture, edited by Rebecca Daniels and Geoff Brandwood, Reading, 2003)
‘“The ivie’d ruins of forlorn Grace Dieu”: Catholics, Romantics and late Georgian Gothic, in Gothic Architecture and its Meanings, edited by Michael Hall, Reading, 2002
The Eye of the Beholder: 2001 Peter Dormer Lecture, Royal College of Art, 2002
Bigger Peaches: Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Immortal Dinner, Occasional Works, Menlo Park, California, 2002
‘Reformation to Millennium: Pugin’s Contrasts in the history of English thought’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March, 1999
‘Pugin and Scotland’, Caledonia Gothica, the Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, VIII, 1997
‘A C Pugin’ Burlington Magazine, 1114, January 1996
‘A W N Pugin, a biographical sketch’, in A W N Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival, catalogue of an exhibition at the Bard Institute, New York, Yale University Press, 1995
‘Bankers, Bawds and Beau Monde: A C Pugin and Ackermann’s “Microcosm of London”’, Country Life, 3 November, 1994
