Tag Archives: William Rosen

chains and chimes of freedom

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Dave

John Howard, friend of the Josiah Wedgwood circle, worked for prison reform, striding through the foul smelling jails of eighteenth-century England, in Erasmus Darwin’s words, “if not to sever, to relax the chains.” They themselves pressed for the abolition of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Desmond Clarke, Erasmus Darwin, James Keir, Jenny Uglow, John Howard prison reform, Joseph Priestley, Kevin Brennan minister, Lichfield Group Anna Seward poetess, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society, Thomas Bentley, Thomas Day, Thomas Day The Dying Negro, William Rosen, William Small, William Wilberforce, William Windus | Leave a comment

decided and optimistic views

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

Josiah Wedgwood and his friends were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century- brilliant if highly eccentric. Most are forgotten today, but collectively they changed the world… Devotion to science and a respect for the arts were not … Continue reading →